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Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In October 1992, businessman and independent presidential candidate Ross Perot stood at a podium to the left of Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush at the third presidential debate of the general election cycle. An independent candidate for president has not made it on the debate stage since. Three […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried on criminal charges. Trump last […]
Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The threat posed by artificial intelligence programs is real and creates a serious challenge going into the 2024 election, according to a new federal assessment. The analysis, compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by ABC News, outlines how, with less than […]
Terri Lynn Martin/ABC News (NEW YORK) — “ABC News Live” Anchor Linsey Davis is accustomed to seeking the truth and reporting it. That instinct for fact-finding transcended recently to Davis’ personal family history, with a genealogist from the 10 Million Names Project helping the Emmy-winning journalist track down an ancestor born in the early 1800s. […]
ABC (NEW YORK) — Krystal Kauffman, a gig worker, spent one workday watching footage captured by a camera that had been placed on a baby’s head, labeling objects as they came into view, she said. For another job, she said she looked at images of feet, while on another, she marked aerial photographs of animals. […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday that he’s unconcerned about how President Joe Biden will fare at his first debate with former President Donald Trump next month. The two candidates’ agreement bucked the Commission on Presidential Debates, the longtime organizer of such forums. Biden’s camp suggested the body was unable […]
Getty Images – STOCK (GRAND LAKE, Colo.) — The body of 23-year-old Lucas Macaj was recovered in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday after he took a “significant fall,” according to an initial investigation, the park said. Search and rescue teams had been looking for Macaj on Mills Glacier since Monday. His body was […]
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — President Joe Biden was met with silent protests as he delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, after some students and faculty members voiced strong opposition to his visit over the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In his speech before the president’s address, […]
Blue Origin (NEW YORK) — Ed Dwight, the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after […]
Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State’s country highways. In some ways, the region looks on the surface in 2024 as it did in 1954. Yet a quick drive reveals that even though the area’s population has long been on […]