ABC News (WASHINGTON) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is playing down the potential political fallout from former president Donald Trump’s latest legal setback — after the 2024 candidate was ordered by a New York jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million for defaming her when she saidRead More →
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the country’s top military officer, is an experienced U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who has surmounted many challenges in his nearly 40-year career, including once having to eject and land in the Florida Everglades, an experience that earned him the call sign “SwampRead More →
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) — Recovery efforts are underway after a vehicle drove off a Virginia fishing pier and became fully submerged in ocean waters early Saturday morning, police said. A 911 caller reported the incident around 6:52 a.m. ET at the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier, police said. OfficersRead More →
Bettman/Getty Images (WICHITA, Kan.) — Authorities are calling on the public for help in finding the suspects who stole a statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson from a public park in Wichita, Kansas. Surveillance video captured the suspects entering Jackie Robinson Pavilion in McAdams Park around midnight on Thursday and removingRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The eastern United States is being hit with severe weather this weekend, bringing flooding to the Southeast, rain to the mid-Atlantic and snow to the Northeast. This weekend, 20 million Americans from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., are under a flood watch as heavy rain, gusty windsRead More →
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Several people were injured in a “serious” multi-vehicle crash that occurred on the U.S.-50 Bay Bridge in Maryland Saturday morning, authorities said. The incident occurred around 8 a.m. ET on the westbound span of the bridge, which crosses the Chesapeake Bay. “Multiple” patients have beenRead More →
Getty Images/Jordan McAlister (WILMINGTON, Ill.) — A citywide boil water advisory is in effect in Wilmington, Illinois, after a state of emergency was declared this week due to flooding. Residents are advised to boil any water used for drinking and cooking purposes. Wilmington is about an hour southwest of Chicago. OfficialsRead More →
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S.-led retaliatory strikes launched against Iranian-backed Houthi militants in the Red Sea are intended to prevent future conflict, and the U.S. does not want to “go down a path of greater escalation,” Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC News ChiefRead More →
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Muslim and Arab American leaders in Michigan canceled a meeting with President Joe Biden’s campaign team amid increasing opposition to his administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, multiple people tell ABC News. “We’re dumbfounded,” the National Executive Director of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Abed Ayoub,Read More →
Richard Sharrocks/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Republican and Democratic senators closing in on a rare bipartisan deal on tough new border security, the fate of any agreement appeared in doubt Friday with key Republicans expressing concern former President Donald Trump could derail the whole thing. House Speaker Mike Johnson onRead More →
