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Grammys 2023: Harry Styles wins Album of the Year, Beyoncé breaks record, Bonnie Raitt takes Song of the Year
Francis Specker/CBS It was the biggest night in music at the 2023 Grammy Awards Sunday night, hosted by Trevor Noah live from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. The first award of the night went to Harry [Read More…]
‘Saturday Night Live’ pokes fun at Chinese spy balloon drama in cold open
NBCUniversal Saturday Night Live had a ball — or shall we say, a balloon — with its latest cold open. The skit begins with Chloe Fineman, as MSNBC’s Katy Tur, reporting that the “national nightmare” [Read More…]
Turkey earthquake live updates: At least 1,200 dead in Turkey, Syria after powerful quake
RAMI AL SAYED/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 1,200 people are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, officials said. The pre-dawn quake was centered [Read More…]
3.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Buffalo, New York, suburbs
Gary S Chapman/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The center of the quake was in West [Read More…]
Russian army officer says he saw Ukrainian POWs tortured
Konstantin Yefremov (NEW YORK) — A senior Russian army lieutenant who fled Russia told ABC News he witnessed his country’s troops torture prisoners in Ukraine, including beating and threats to rape them. Konstantin Yefremov, the [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Natanyahu considers ‘Iron Dome’ for Ukraine
SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Almost a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout [Read More…]
Houston airport fire grounds United Airlines flights
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A fire Sunday morning in a laundry room at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a 90-minute ground stop on all United Airlines flights [Read More…]
Timeline: Where the Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted before being shot down
ABC News Illustration/Google Earth (NEW YORK) — Government officials closely tracked a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China as it traveled across the U.S. for several days. The white balloon, which China’s foreign ministry [Read More…]
Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: POLL
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Four in 10 Americans say they’ve gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden became president, the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years. Political fallout [Read More…]
Lawmakers praise successful downing of suspected Chinese spy balloon while concerns linger
Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The downing of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon by the U.S. military was met by lawmakers with a mix of praise for the safe and successful operation, [Read More…]
171 Republican lawmakers join effort to stop student loan forgiveness program
Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One hundred and twenty-eight House Republicans and nearly all Republican senators on Friday filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court opposing the Biden administration’s federal student debt cancellation [Read More…]
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu ‘definitely thinking about’ 2024 presidential run
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Sunday that he is considering a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “I’m definitely thinking about it and having those conversations,” Sununu told ABC [Read More…]
Buttigieg defends ‘extraordinary’ economy as polling suggests significant discontent
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — With President Joe Biden preparing to deliver his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, a new ABC News/Washington Post shows many people feel their finances are worsening — but [Read More…]
The science behind the zombie fungus from ‘The Last of Us’
Kevin Schafer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The hit HBO series “The Last Of Us” describes a post-pandemic world devastated by a mass outbreak of a “zombie fungus” that infects and takes over the mind of [Read More…]
Where the Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted before being shot down
ABC News Illustration/Google Earth (NEW YORK) — Government officials closely tracked a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China as it traveled across the U.S. for several days. The white balloon, which China’s foreign ministry [Read More…]
Democrats approve new primary calendar for 2024
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — The Democratic National Committee near unanimously approved a reconfigured presidential primary calendar rubber-stamped by the White House at the group’s winter gathering on Saturday. A few nay votes were drowned out [Read More…]
DOJ to conduct review of Memphis Police Department after Tyre Nichols’ death
Lucy Garrett/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The Department of Justice will help conduct a review of the Memphis Police Department following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, city officials said. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday [Read More…]
Where the Chinese surveillance balloon has been spotted
ABC News Illustration / Google Earth (NEW YORK) — Government officials are closely tracking a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China as it travels across the U.S. The white balloon, which China’s foreign ministry [Read More…]
Robb Elementary School to be demolished, Uvalde contends with conflicting emotions
Alex Wong/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Jerry Mata, whose 10-year-old daughter Tess was killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting last year, still returns to the campus of Robb Elementary to honor his child. “I’ve been [Read More…]
Train derails, goes up in flames in Ohio, causes half of town to evacuate
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Local officials in East Palestine, Ohio, have ordered roughly 2,000 residents, about half the town’s population, to evacuate their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire. [Read More…]