Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) -- As Danny Pownall looked through the piles of debris on the street in front of one of his rental properties in Redington Shores, Florida, he pointed out suitcases, beds and even a workout ball."Their lives just got...
Miguel Sotomayor/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A first-of-its-kind survey has found that 3.3% of U.S. high school students identified as transgender in 2023, with another 2.2% identified as questioning.The first nationally representative survey from the U.S. Centers for...
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) -- It has been more than 100 years since Florida's Tampa Bay area – a region especially vulnerable to storm surge and flooding – faced a direct hit by a hurricane.But Hurricane Milton is now heading straight for Florida's Gulf...
Jason Marz/Getty Images(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) -- Andrew Lester, the man charged in the April 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl after the teenager mistakenly went to the wrong house, got a new trial date on Tuesday, pending the outcome of a mental health evaluation, ABC's Kansas...
Alex Kent/Getty ImagesMohamed Bahi, who resigned Monday from his job in the Adams administration, was arrested Tuesday for obstructing the investigation into the mayor and his campaign.Bahi is charged with witness tampering and destroying evidence.This is a developing...
NOAA(TALLAHASSEE, FL) -- Hurricane Milton, which re-strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Tuesday afternoon, is taking aim at Florida's west coast. Landfall is expected late Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane.Milton is closing in as Floridians are still...
Morton Plant North Bay Hospital/Google Maps Street View(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of health care facilities in Florida are suspending services and/or preparing to evacuate as Hurricane Milton approaches.On Sunday, Pinellas County – located on the west central Florida coast...
Bryan R. Smith via Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, FL) -- Florida officials are urging residents to evacuate now as Hurricane Milton intensifies and sets its sights on the state's west coast.Hours before the storm strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane on Monday, Florida...
Karine Aigner for the Washington Post Magazine(NEW YORK) -- Meeting an exotic animal at a public attraction can fill us with wonder, but critics say that this can also be dangerous. Dana Garber said she had just such an encounter at the Endangered Ark Foundation in...
Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New York City's deputy mayor for public safety, Phil Banks III, resigned Monday in the latest fallout from the corruption scandal engulfing the administration of Mayor Eric Adams."We spoke yesterday and...
NOAA(TALLAHASSEE, FL) -- Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 4 storm Monday morning as it takes aim at Florida's west coast.Landfall is expected as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.Milton is closing in as Floridians are still...
NOAA(TALLAHASSEE, FL) -- Hurricane Milton, now a powerful Category 4 hurricane, is taking aim at Florida's west coast. Landfall is expected late Wednesday night, possibly as a Category 3 hurricane.Milton is closing in as Floridians are still recovering from the...
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two boys, ages 12 and 13, have been arrested and charged in a street attack last week on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson that unfolded on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to...
Grant Halverson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It was a story tailor-made for Hollywood: A wealthy white family takes in a Black teenager, guiding his football career from a high school standout to Ole Miss to the NFL. However, years later now Michael Oher claims he was...
NYPD(NEW YORK) -- New York City police are searching for five suspects wanted in a "gang assault" on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to officials.The attack, which unfolded around 8:35 p.m....
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Police in Portland, Oregon, said they're seeking the mother of a 2-year-old girl who died from a suspected fentanyl exposure last month, and who is also wanted for "several violent crimes."Police said they have been...
Grant Faint/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, at once a major flashpoint in the 2024 campaign and potential presidential election referee, gavels open a new term on Monday with the nation deeply divided over its recent rulings and skeptical of the...
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- The former Los Angeles police detective convicted in 2012 of killing her ex-lover's wife was denied parole on Wednesday in the 1986 murder and will continue to serve her 27 years-to-life sentence.Stephanie Lazarus was convicted of murdering...
An ABC News graphic shows the latest weather conditions and warnings in the wake of Helene, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods,...
A cluster of broken pieces of wood from destroyed houses rest along a damaged bridge in Lake Lure, North Carolina, Oct. 2, 2024, after the passage of Hurricane Helene. (Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 1,000 National Guard troops are heading...
