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Cadaver dogs arrive at Iowa building collapse in race against time to find survivors
georgeclerk/Getty Images (DAVENPORT, Iowa) — An elite task force with dogs trained to smell death is combing through a partially collapsed building in eastern Iowa as three people remain missing. Iowa Task Force 1, a [Read More…]
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Senate passes debt ceiling deal, staving off default
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday night passed legislation to lift the nation’s debt ceiling and stave off what would’ve been an economically disastrous default days before Monday’s deadline. [Read More…]
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Cancer drug shortage is forcing doctors to decide which patients get treatment
Chris Rogers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just six weeks ago, Greg DeStefano began a new chemotherapy combination. The 50-year-old, from Northbrook, Illinois, had recently been diagnosed with his fourth round of cancer and doctors were [Read More…]
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‘And Just Like That…’ season 2 trailer reveals how Aiden lands back in Carrie’s arms
Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max “You never know what tomorrow will bring” Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Carrie Bradshaw is heard saying in the official trailer for season 2 of Max’s And Just Like That…, which dropped on Thursday, and in her case, [Read More…]
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5 people rescued after private plane crashes into waters near Bahamas: Authorities
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NASSAU, Bahamas) — Five people were rescued after a private plane crashed into waters near the Bahamas on Thursday, the Bahamas’ Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority told ABC News. The plane was en route to [Read More…]
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South Carolina teen killed after shoplifting allegations remembered as ‘intelligent, humorous’
Courtesy Rutherford Law (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — A South Carolina teenager who police say was fatally shot by a gas station owner who they say had falsely accused him of shoplifting was remembered by his middle school [Read More…]
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Former Houghton University employee claims he was fired for using pronouns in email signature
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As debate grows over how gender identity is handled in schools, many employees at educational institutions have said that they feel caught in the middle, and some also say that they’ve [Read More…]
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Daniel Penny chokehold death case before grand jury: Sources
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The case against the Marine veteran charged in the chokehold death of a homeless man aboard a New York City subway train is now before a grand jury, sources familiar [Read More…]
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Appeal planned after Ed Sheeran win over copyright infringement lawsuit involving ‘Thinking Out Loud’
Theo Wargo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The family of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer on “Let’s Get it On” intends to appeal a verdict in Manhattan federal court for Ed Sheeran, according to a court filing Thursday. The [Read More…]
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Judge involved in Trump criminal case previously did work for a Trump entity
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The federal judge in New York who will decide whether to move former President Donald Trump’s criminal case from state court to federal court previously did work for a Trump [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump pushes back on his inability to serve 8 more years in White House: ‘You need 6 months’
Scott Olson/Getty Images (URBANDALE, Iowa) — Former President Donald Trump returned to Iowa on Thursday for a full day of campaign events, taking multiple jabs at 2024 primary rival Ron DeSantis and defending people imprisoned in [Read More…]
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Debt ceiling drama heads down to the wire in Senate
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With just days until the deadline for the nation to default, the Senate now is racing against the clock to pass a bipartisan debt ceiling agreement and avoid [Read More…]
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More Oath Keeper defendants sentenced for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
Brent Stirton/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge sentenced two Oath Keeper defendants Thursday for their roles in disrupting the certification of the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. Edward Vallejo was sentenced to three years [Read More…]
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Are US arms sent to Ukraine being tracked so they can’t be used to attack Russia?
Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Paramilitary organizations making the largest cross-border attack inside Russia since the war began have maintained they’re fighting for Ukraine and reportedly claimed to have conducted another operation [Read More…]
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“Hobbs is back”: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson confirms lead in second ‘Fast and Furious’ spinoff
ABC/Paula Lobo After his surprise reappearance in a post-credits scene in Fast X, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson took to social media to make a “long awaited” announcement that his Fast character, lawman Luke Hobbs, will [Read More…]
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Lottery addictions are not being addressed seriously, experts say
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tvonia Thomas said that scratch-off lotto games were consuming every aspect of her life in Virginia. Even though she rarely won big jackpots, Thomas told ABC News Live that the [Read More…]
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How Vegas is changing the odds for blackjack players
Duncan Nicholls and Simon Webb/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Blackjack players say they’ve been noticing a difference at the tables in Las Vegas lately. Even if they hit that lucky 21, they say they’re not getting [Read More…]
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Indianola mayor urges ‘patience’ amid probe into police shooting of 11-year-old boy
ABC News (INDIANOLA, Miss.) — Ken Featherstone, the mayor of Indianola, Mississippi, urged his community to “trust the process” amid an investigation into the police shooting of 11-year-old Aderrien Murry after he reportedly called 911 for [Read More…]
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Drag show at Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base canceled by Pentagon
L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — The Pentagon informed Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base that a previously approved drag show slated to take place on the base on the first day of Pride Month [Read More…]
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Ron DeSantis’ wife joins him on the campaign trail as voters say they want to ‘see the man’
Scott Olson/Getty Images (SALEX, Iowa) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pitches himself as a “fighter” for conservative values. But as he continues his initial presidential campaign swing through three early nominating states, he’s working to highlight [Read More…]