Year: 2024
ABC Business News
Musk’s DOGE wants to slash regulations. Workers and patients may suffer, experts say.
Marc Piasecki/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has vowed to dismantle thousands of federal regulations as the co-head of a new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says the nation’s financial security depends on [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Walmart to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. This brings it in line with several major corporations that have reviewed their operational practices [Read More…]
ABC Health News
What policies could RFK Jr. actually change at HHS?
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Named to lead the nation’s sprawling Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has big ideas for busting public health policy norms. His Senate confirmation hearings — [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Trump names COVID lockdown critic Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as pick for NIH director
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a critic of COVID-19 lockdown policies to serve as the head of the National Institutes of Health. In a statement, Trump [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Bird flu found in sample of California raw milk: Officials
Pierre Crom/Getty Images (FRESNO, CA) — After bird flu was detected in a retail sample of raw milk produced and packaged by Raw Farm, LLC, the California Department of Public Health warned consumers on Sunday [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Centrist group No Labels sues Democratic operatives over efforts to derail it
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the bipartisan group No Labels attempted to field a third-party independent bid in the 2024 presidential race, several of its opponents aggressively attempted to sabotage its operations in hopes of preventing [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump Cabinet picks, appointees targets of bomb threats and swatting, spokesperson says
Jim Vondruska/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and administration appointees were the targets of “violent” threats Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump set to take office with razor-thin House GOP majority
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a razor-thin GOP majority in the House of Representatives that offers Republicans barely any margin of error. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Harris, Walz join campaign finance calls, declare the ‘fight’s not over’
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday thanked supporters during a virtual call and vowed that the “fight’s not over” in her first remarks since conceding defeat to President-elect Donald [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Why did a blue Texas border county vote red for the first time in 100 years?
Participants in the annual Christmas Parade march down Main Street, December 1, 2023, in Rio Grande City, Starr County, Texas. The vast majority of rural Starr County, which follows the Rio Grande River border with [Read More…]
ABC National News
Stowaway discovered on board flight from New York to Paris
Robert Alexander/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid the Thanksgiving travel rush, a stowaway was discovered Tuesday night onboard a Delta Air Lines flight out of JFK Airport in New York City headed to Paris. Authorities [Read More…]
ABC National News
FedEx deliveries of AT&T iPhones targeted in nationwide theft ring
ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — AAT&T customers are being urged to stay cautious as thieves are using cellular data to track and steal deliveries, particularly iPhones. Police report a nationwide surge in package thefts by organized [Read More…]
ABC National News
Abortions fell 2% the year Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade: CDC
Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The number of abortions performed in the U.S. fell slightly in 2022, the year the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, a new federal report found. In [Read More…]
ABC National News
Daughter of pilot who died in crash while rescuing dogs speaks out about his death
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Leah Kim remembers her dad for his infectious smile and loving heart. “His legacy is for people to live their lives with joy,” she told ABC News. Seuk Kim, 49, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Search called off for missing Oregon woman and her 2 dogs
Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office (WELCHES, Ore.) — The search for a missing hiker and her two dogs in Oregon’s Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness was suspended late Tuesday after four days, officials said. However, authorities said they are continuing to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Three Americans wrongfully jailed in China are en route to US, State Department says
Bring Our Families Home (NEW YORK) — Three Americans who the State Department said were wrongfully detained in China for years are on their way back to the U.S. as part of a prisoner swap, [Read More…]
ABC World News
Climate and environment updates: Drought in US improves slightly but still a problem
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: IDF issues south Lebanon warning after ceasefire
Mahmoud Zayyat via Getty Images (LONDON) — A ceasefire went into effect at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday morning after Israel’s Cabinet approved the U.S.-backed proposal to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah after [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine drones attack Crimea, Moscow says, as Zelenskyy urges strikes inside Russia
DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE – NOVEMBER 24: Ukrainian soldiers repair drones in a laboratory at an undetermined location in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on November 24, 2024. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israeli cabinet approves ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah
(LONDON) — Israel’s cabinet has approved the U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah after prolonged negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had submitted the proposal to the cabinet for approval Tuesday evening local time. [Read More…]