STOCK PHOTO/Adobe Stock (NEW YORK) — The Chinese effort to hack prominent Americans is far more pervasive than previously reported, ABC News has learned. Sources told ABC News that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials are concerned the espionage operation by the Chinese government may have been in place forRead More →

ABC/Michael Le Brecht II (WASHINGTON) — Three people have been charged in an alleged Iran-linked plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, an Iranian-American activist and two Jewish Americans living in New York, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in New York. Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are chargedRead More →

Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Billionaire Elon Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the call told ABC News. Musk was at Mar-a-Lago with Trump on election night as well as the day after, as previouslyRead More →

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case has paused all upcoming deadlines in the case, after special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Friday requesting the pause. As ABC News previously reported, Smith and the Justice Department are in talks about the best way toRead More →

Teen believed to be armed stopped from entering Wisconsin elementary school. Via Kenosha Police Department (KENOSHA, Wis.) — Several replica guns have been recovered from the home of a 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at a Wisconsin elementary school, but was stopped from entering the building, according toRead More →

Police investigate a shooting spree near I-40 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 7, 2024. Via WTVD (RALEIGH, N.C.) — A North Carolina State student has been arrested for a string of apparently random shootings at cars on multiple highways in Raleigh. Since Monday, police have received 12 reports of shotsRead More →

Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A wind-whipped Southern California brush fire that exploded to over 20,000 acres in about 24 hours, destroying homes and prompting mass evacuations, remained out of control Thursday as Gov. Gavin Newsom rallied state and federal resources to battle the blaze. The governorRead More →

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has struck down the Biden administration’s program known as “Keeping Families Together,” dealing a major blow to the estimated half a million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens that DHS estimates would have benefited. The administration announced the program in June, but a coalitionRead More →

Police investigate a shooting spree near I-40 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 7, 2024. Via WTVD (RALEIGH, N.C.) — Two people have been detained in connection with a spate of shootings that occurred in Raleigh this week, authorities said Thursday. Since Monday, police have received 12 reports of shots beingRead More →