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President Biden. CREDIT: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — President Joe Biden is visiting East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday to mark one year since a train derailment spilled hazardous materials and toxins into the environment that forced many residents out of their homes. Biden was briefed by officials and gave […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio) — A judge declared a mistrial for the second time Friday in the murder trial of a former Ohio deputy Jason Meade, who was charged with two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide in the 2020 shooting death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. On Friday morning, […]
Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The State Department has received multiple warnings from its posts in the Middle East during recent weeks about the lasting impact from U.S. messaging on the conflict in Gaza, triggering a meeting in Washington with intelligence agencies to evaluate the fallout, according to internal communications reviewed by ABC News and […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump has been fined $354 million in a civil fraud lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel him to the White House. In the decision, Judge Arthur Engoron excoriated Trump, saying the president’s credibility was “severely compromised,” that the level […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House has embarked on a 12-day winter recess, joining the Senate’s two-week recess and leaving a long list of critical unfinished business on Capitol Hill. Navigating a three-vote majority, Speaker Mike Johnson rejected pressure to consider the Senate’s bipartisan $95 billion national security supplemental. That move leaves not only […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, is set to hear arguments over motions to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, primarily over accusations from Trump co-defendant Michael Roman that she benefited financially from a “personal, romantic relationship” with prosecutor Nathan Wade, who […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department rebuffed efforts by attorneys for President Joe Biden to omit language critical of his age and memory in a report published last week by special counsel Robert Hur, sources confirmed to ABC News. Four people familiar with the matter authenticated a series of correspondence first described in […]
WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police believe they have recovered the body of 5-year-old Darnell Taylor, whose disappearance had prompted a statewide Amber Alert in Ohio earlier this week. The body was recovered in a sewage drain in Franklin County, near his hometown of Columbus. The alert was issued Wednesday after his foster mother, Pammy […]
Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When special counsel Robert Hur’s report on his yearlong investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials was made public last week, it said no charges were warranted because the evidence wasn’t sufficient to support a conviction. That might have been the end of it as a legal […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case is set to hear arguments over motions to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, primarily over accusations that she benefited financially from a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired for the case. Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, a […]