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Passenger’s gun accidentally discharges at airport, authorities say
Kali9/iStock (ATLANTA) — A passenger accidentally discharged a gun at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Saturday, airport officials said, causing panic and sending travelers onto the tarmac on one of the busiest travel weekends of [Read More…]
Black trans women live in fear after pattern of deaths in Chicago
Danielle A. Scruggs for ABC News (CHICAGO) — The story of De’Janay Stanton’s death is one that many transgender women in Chicago fear. The 24-year-old Black transgender woman was shot and killed by a romantic [Read More…]
Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal sparks protests across US
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (PORTLAND, Ore.) — Demonstrations sprang up nationwide in protest of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict Friday night, after a Wisconsin jury found the 18-year-old not guilty for the killing of two men and [Read More…]
Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted on all charges
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (KENOSHA, Wisc.) — A Wisconsin jury has acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges in the killing of two men and the wounding of another during political unrest in Kenosha last summer — a [Read More…]
US Capitol Christmas Tree arrives from California
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After nearly a year of planning and a more than 4,500-mile trek across the country, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree arrived in Washington Friday, just in [Read More…]
County to investigate care given to Turpin siblings after rescue from abusive parents
ABC News (NEW YORK) — New details were revealed Friday about an outside independent probe launched to investigate the treatment of the Turpin siblings since their dramatic 2018 escape from captivity, casting new light on [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Masks cut virus incidence by 53%, new analysis finds
Michael Anthony/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.1 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 768,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns [Read More…]
Ahmaud Arbery trial: Defense attorney claims ‘public lynching’ of man accused in the killing
Octavio Jones/Pool/Getty Images (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — Defense attorney Kevin Gough called the homicide trial of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black jogger, a “public lynching” of his client — who is one of three white men [Read More…]
How to watch the longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440
Onfokus/iStock (NEW YORK) — Skywatchers, the longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440 will take place Friday, and you’ll have the chance to view a historic cosmic wonder in the sky. The partial eclipse is the [Read More…]
Pastors rally at Ahmaud Arbery trial after attorney’s ‘outrageous’ comments
Sean Rayford/Getty Images (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — Hundreds of pastors gathered and prayed Thursday outside the Georgia courthouse where the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing is underway, a week after a defense attorney said there shouldn’t [Read More…]
Travis McMichael testifies Ahmaud Arbery never verbally threatened him or pulled weapon
Sean Rayford/Getty Images (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — Travis McMichael returned to the witness stand on Thursday and under cross-examination from the prosecutor repeated that Ahmaud Arbery never verbally threatened him or brandished a weapon during the [Read More…]
District attorney apologizes, calls out J. Edgar Hoover as men exonerated in murder of Malcolm X
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (NEW YORK) — One of the men convicted in connection with the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X appeared in court Thursday where a judge cleared his name. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance moved [Read More…]
Julius Jones death row sentence commuted, changed to life without parole
Fahroni/iStock (OKLAHOMA CITY) — After spending the past 20 years fighting for his life on death row, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Julius Jones’ sentence to life without the possibility of parole the day Jones [Read More…]
Travis McMichael testifies in his own defense in Ahmaud Arbery case
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — In a high-stakes move, Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, took the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday afternoon. The 35-year-old McMichael was the first defense witness [Read More…]
Two men found guilty in the Malcolm X assassination expected to have convictions thrown out
Bettmann/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Malcolm X in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is moving to vacate the convictions of [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Moderna asks FDA to authorize booster for all adults
Teka77/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 766,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
DOJ finds Bureau of Prisons failed to apply earned time credits to 60,000 inmates
iStock (NEW YORK) — Sixty-thousand inmates potentially did not properly receive credits for time served under the First Step Act’s recidivism programs, the Department of Justice inspector general found. “We are concerned that the delay [Read More…]
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 attack
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jacob Chansley, the self-described “QAnon Shaman” who infamously marched through the U.S. Capitol with a spear and horned helmet during the Jan. 6 riot, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: US daily case average jumps 23%
Tomwang112/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 763,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
Kyle Rittenhouse trial Day 10 ends with closing arguments: Key takeaways
iStock/CatEyePerspective (NEW YORK) — A Wisconsin jury will begin deliberating the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday after hearing starkly different theories of the same evidence, with a prosecutor portraying the teenager as a trouble-seeking [Read More…]