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Federal judge orders buoys in Rio Grande moved to Texas riverbank
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — A federal judge in Austin on Wednesday ordered the State of Texas to move the barriers it placed in the Rio Grande to the riverbank on the Texas side of [Read More…]
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Brother of Capitol officer who died after Jan. 6 riot blasts Republicans and Trump in letter
Demetrius Freeman- Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The brother of fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died shortly after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has sent a scathing letter to Republican leaders, accusing the [Read More…]
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Prosecutors say domestic violence case against ‘Creed III’ star Jonathan Majors is ready for trial
ABC The domestic violence case against actor Jonathan Majors is “ready for trial,” prosecutors said Wednesday, September 6. A trial date is expected to be set when Majors appears in court September 15. Jury selection [Read More…]
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Kourtney Kardashian reveals her unborn baby boy underwent “urgent fetal surgery”
Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic On Kourtney Kardashian‘s Instagram on Wednesday, September 6, she revealed that her unborn baby underwent “urgent fetal surgery.” The news comes days after an “urgent family matter” caused her husband, Travis Barker, to return to the States, and [Read More…]
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Former Trump aide Peter Navarro ‘acted as if he was above the law’: Prosecutors
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro “acted as if he was above the law,” prosecutors told jurors Wednesday during Navarro’s trial on charges of defying a subpoena issued in February 2022 by [Read More…]
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Man arrested for allegedly beating, sexually assaulting UW-Madison student off-campus
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (MADISON, Wisc.) — A man has been arrested for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Madison police announced at a news conference Wednesday. The victim, a woman in her [Read More…]
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Hurricane Lee: Projected path, maps and hurricane tracker
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning in the Atlantic, is forecast to quickly intensify to an extremely dangerous major hurricane. Lee, which strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Wednesday, [Read More…]
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Judge ‘very skeptical’ of DA’s push to try Trump, 18 co-defendants together in Georgia election case
Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal Constitution/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A Fulton County judge has ordered two defendants in the Georgia election interference case to stand trial together on Oct. 23. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott [Read More…]
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Couple kidnapped from San Antonio home, 5 kids left behind: Police
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) — Police in San Antonio are searching for a man and woman who were kidnapped from their home Wednesday morning. Officers responded to the couple’s home around 6 a.m. and found [Read More…]
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Secretary of State Blinken makes 4th trip to Ukraine ‘to reaffirm strongly our support’
State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken related the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine during an unannounced visit to the country on Wednesday, his fourth trip to the [Read More…]
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Pence takes aim at ‘siren song of populism’ as Trump, Ramaswamy surge
Scott Eisen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday called on Republicans to choose classic conservative principles over “the siren song of populism” he sees pervading the party, a movement largely inspired by [Read More…]
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McConnell says he has ‘nothing to add’ when asked about cause of freeze episodes
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, in his first news conference since a second freezing episode last week, said he had “nothing to add” when reporters questioned him about what [Read More…]
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To help curb terrorism and violence threats, DHS awards $20M to local communities
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced $20 million in grant funding aimed at preventing targeted violence and terrorism in the United States. The grant money, provided by the Federal [Read More…]
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Group sues to block Trump from 2024 ballot in Colorado citing 14th Amendment and Jan. 6
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington-based watchdog group, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of a handful of voters seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 [Read More…]
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MLB testing new technology during games to help settle balls vs. strikes conflicts
Dylan Buell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some of the world’s most contentious land battles may take place at a baseball field’s home plate. Now Major League Baseball is turning to cameras and computers in an effort [Read More…]
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College tennis champ Fiona Crawley explains decision to forfeit US Open prize money
Robert Prange/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fiona Crawley, the top-ranked college tennis player in the nation, forfeited $81,000 in earnings after making it to the first round of the U.S. Open, due to an NCAA rule [Read More…]
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COVID hospitalizations increase for 7th consecutive week but new boosters could help
Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing to rise in the United States but there is hope that the uptick could be stemmed with the new boosters. Hospitalizations increased 15.7% for [Read More…]
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See Chris Evans and Emily Blunt scamming their way to the top in teaser to Netflix’s ‘The Pain Hustlers’
Netflix © 2023/Brian Douglas Emily Blunt plays a single mom with bills piling up and Chris Evans a fast-talking salesman who end up as grifting partners in a pharmaceutical scam in the teaser to Netflix’s [Read More…]
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Jon Stewart, Rita Wilson, Tracy Morgan and more to appear at 17th annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit
Courtesy of Stand Up For Heroes For the 17th year in a row, ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff‘s eponymous foundation and the New York Comedy Festival are saluting our veterans with the Stand Up for Heroes [Read More…]
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Austin Butler and Tom Hardy hit the road in motorcycle gang drama ‘The Bikeriders’
20th Century Studios Danny Lyon‘s famous 1968 photo book of motorcycle enthusiasts, called The Bikeriders, has been adapted into a star-studded film of the same name, the trailer of which just revved onto YouTube. Oscar [Read More…]