Year: 2024
ABC Business News
Alex Jones asks judge to halt sale of Infowars site to The Onion
Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images (New York) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused The Onion and Sandy Hook Elementary School families of “collusive bidding” and asked a bankruptcy court judge to halt the sale of his Infowars [Read More…]
ABC Business News
What Trump could do to lower grocery prices, according to experts
Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump sharply criticized the rising price of groceries throughout his campaign, even delivering an address outside his New Jersey home in August alongside a table covered with [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Escaped primates open can of worms for South Carolina’s Alpha Genesis research lab
Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, SC) — With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the Low Country facility [Read More…]
ABC Health News
California confirms first US case of more severe mpox strain — but risk to public remains low
Jun Li/Getty Images/STOCK (SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif.) — Health officials in California have confirmed the first domestic case of a more severe strain of mpox in a traveler from Eastern Africa, according to the U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Doctors worried RFK Jr. will tout vaccine-skeptic views after he is picked for HHS secretary
Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the recent pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the environmental attorney’s views on vaccines have been thrust back into [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 11/18/24
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONBulls 122, Pistons 11276ers 89, Heat 106Wizards 106, Knicks 134Pacers 119, Raptors 130Rockets 100, Bucks 101Magic 109, Suns 99Hawks 109, Kings [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 11/17/24
iStock NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONMinnesota 120, Phoenix 117Indiana 119, Miami 110Detroit 124, Washington 104Memphis 105, Denver 90Cleveland 128, Charlotte 114Houston 143, Chicago 107New York 114, Brooklyn 104Dallas 121, Oklahoma City 119Final LA Clippers 116, Utah 105Portland [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Jake Paul eases to victory by decision over Mike Tyson
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images for Netflix (DALLAS) — Jake Paul won the highly anticipated boxing match on Netflix by unanimous decision 80-72, 79-73, 79-73 as Paul landed 78 punches to Mike Tyson’s 18. Once known as [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Congress could go around Ethics Committee if it doesn’t release Gaetz report
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While the House Ethics Committee will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, it’s possible [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump transition live updates: Musk backs Gaetz for AG amid allegations
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump calls for halt in confirmation of judges until Inauguration Day
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday called for a halt in confirming judges until he takes office, accusing Democrats of “trying to stack the courts.” “The Democrats are trying to stack [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judiciary Committee senators suggest a Gaetz confirmation hearing could get fiery
Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has been calling Senate Republicans to push for now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be confirmed as attorney general as lawmakers continue to raise concerns over [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Mace says effort to ban transgender women from Capitol women’s restrooms aimed at McBride
Rep. Nancy Mace; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Nancy Mace said Tuesday that the bill she introduced to ban transgender women from using biological women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol [Read More…]
ABC National News
Suspect in random Manhattan stabbing spree appears in court on murder charges
Sam Costanza/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man accused of killing three people in an apparent unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan made his first appearance in court on Tuesday. Ramon [Read More…]
ABC National News
Daughter desperate to find driver who killed dad in hit-and-run: ‘Please come clean’
KABC (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — Police and relatives are pleading with the public to help find the driver who struck and killed a father of three in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles. Oscar Guardado was [Read More…]
ABC National News
Laken Riley’s last moments retraced during trial on Georgia nursing student’s murder
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATHENS, Ga.) — The last moments before Laken Riley was killed while out on a run on the University of Georgia’s campus were shown in court Tuesday on the third day of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Deaf man with cerebral palsy said he tried to communicate with officers before violent arrest
RichLegg/Getty (PHOENIX, Ariz) — A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was violently arrested by two Phoenix police officers in August said he tried to alert the officers that he was deaf before they [Read More…]
ABC National News
Prosecutors in Trump hush money case oppose dismissal, but are OK pausing case
Justin Lane – Pool/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday they would oppose President-elect Trump’s attempt to dismiss his criminal hush money conviction in New York — but [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia claims it shot down US-made ATACMS missiles and issues nuclear threat
Russian President Valdimir Putin; Photo credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it defeated a Ukrainian ATACMS attack in the western Bryansk region, shortly before the Kremlin [Read More…]
ABC World News
Investigation into possible sabotage underway after 2 underwater cables cut in Baltic Sea
Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — An initial investigation into possible sabotage has been launched by four NATO countries — Finland, Germany, Sweden and Lithuania — after two underwater telecommunications cables connecting Germany [Read More…]