Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, declined an offer to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in his independent presidential bid, she tells ABC News. “I met with Kennedy several times, and we have becomeRead More →

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants have secured a $175 million bond in their New York civil fraud case, according to a court filing. Trump secured the bond through Knight Specialty Insurance Company, which is owned by the privately-held Hankey Group, whose chairman toldRead More →

Severe weather outbreak for April 2, 2024. ABC News (NEW YORK) — Many schools across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana have announced closures or early dismissals as a line of severe thunderstorms brings damaging winds and a threat of dangerous tornadoes to the Ohio Valley. A tornado watch was issued TuesdayRead More →

Dennis Macdonald/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, FLA) — The Florida state Supreme Court issued a decision Monday upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban, dealing a blow to a legal challenge asking the court to throw out the ban. The state Supreme Court heard arguments in September after it took up the caseRead More →

Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people were charged Monday for allegedly distributing the heroin and fentanyl that caused the death of transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. Cecilia Gentili was 52 when she fatally overdosed on Feb. 6 in her New York City home due to effects of fentanyl-laced heroin,Read More →

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is going on the offense in an effort to save his speakership after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just months after he ascended to the position. The motion to vacate, which was raised justRead More →

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, causing a near-total collapse of the span and halting vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore. Six construction workers believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridgeRead More →

Getty Images – STOCK (Charleston, S.C.) — Alex Murdaugh, who is already serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and child, was sentenced Monday to 40 more years in prison for financial crimes, according to Charleston, South Carolina, ABC affiliate WCIV. Murdaugh, 55, pleaded guilty in SeptemberRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Powerball has climbed to $1 billion for Monday night’s drawing. “This is no April Fools’ Day joke, we have an advertised Powerball jackpot that’s hit $1 billion to kick off the month of April,” Drew Svitko, Powerball product group chair and Pennsylvania LotteryRead More →

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe weather is in the forecast for the Heartland and the Midwest, with damaging winds, large hail and even a few strong tornadoes possible. On Monday, severe thunderstorms are expected from Texas to West Virginia, with the greatest tornado threat from Oklahoma to Missouri. TheRead More →