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Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — Residents of St. Petersburg — on Florida’s central-west coast — were temporarily left without clean drinking water after a water main break occurred during Hurricane Milton. City officials said the break caused them to shut off potable water services at 12 a.m. ET on Thursday until […]
Debris in Sarasota, Florida. Via Sean Rayford/Getty (NEW YORK) — Florida authorities began assessing the damage left by Hurricane Milton’s passage across the state early Thursday, as the storm passed into the Atlantic Ocean after a night of high winds, torrential rain and storm surge. Milton made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast late Wednesday as […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is on the defensive after all seven members of the Chicago Board of Education announced their resignations Friday, an unprecedented moment in the city’s history, in protest of a $300 million loan Johnson proposed to fund teachers’ contracts and pensions. The Chicago City Council called a […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Milton is forecast to bring a slew of devastation to Florida’s west coast as the Category 3 storm makes landfall in the Tampa area Wednesday evening. In addition to physical damage to the region, power blackouts and cell service outages could last for days after the storm hits, […]
Jim Vondruska/Getty Images (TEMPE, Ariz.) — The campaign office shared by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Democratic Party in Tempe, Arizona, was damaged by gunfire for the third time in less than a month on Sunday, police told ABC News on Wednesday. The Tempe Police Department provided new details in its investigation, including […]
Paras Griffin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmire talks about the music mogul’s return to court on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Sean “Diddy” Combs accused federal agents and prosecutors of unlawful leaks in a court filing on Wednesday. Combs has been held without bail after he was arrested and […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An escalation of conflicts in the Middle East in recent weeks has triggered a sharp increase in oil prices, raising uncertainty about where costs will head in the final weeks before Election Day. Oil prices surged about 13% over an 11-day stretch ending on Monday. Prices fell markedly on […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (TEL AVIV) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, according to the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call, the White House said. It marked the first phone call between the two leaders in months, and since fighting has intensified in the Middle […]
Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, FL.) — Storm surge is a major threat from Hurricane Milton, which is set to make landfall on Florida’s west coast as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday night. A dangerous, record-breaking storm surge of up to 12 feet is expected for Tampa Bay and Fort […]
Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A North Korean defector living in South Korea is under arrest for allegedly stealing a bus and attempting to drive it across the border into North Korea last week, police said. The man, who is in his 30s, escaped North Korea and settled in 2011 in […]
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