HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Agricultural officials in Southern California are battling an active infestation of red imported fire ants that are “highly aggressive in nature,” and pose a risk to California’s agricultural economy. The infestation occurred at a private property in Montecito, in SantaRead More →

Obtained by ABC News (HOUSTON) — A suspect has been identified after an abandoned newborn was found crying by a dumpster in Houston, police said Wednesday. A person called 911 early Sunday afternoon reporting that they had heard a baby crying near a dumpster at an apartment complex, according toRead More →

Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — The former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her Illinois home while responding to her call for help has held six different police jobs since 2020, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board confirmed to ABC News. Body camera footageRead More →

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A week before Thomas Mathew Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, he became “very focused” on Trump and the rally, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Crooks also searched for information on the assassinationRead More →

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Mark Kelly, a potential vice presidential contender, said on Wednesday that he would vote in support of the PRO Act, a major labor reform measure. The remarks came a day after ABC News reported concern among labor unions about the Arizona senatorRead More →

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, urging American leaders to provide more bipartisan support to Israel amid its ongoing conflict with Hamas in Gaza while also criticizing the protesters who have spoken out against the war thatRead More →

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, July 14, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, in a rare Oval Office address to the nation,Read More →

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, holds a campaign event in West Allis, WI, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign expressed optimism about its path to the presidency this week, telling reporters in a memo thatRead More →

Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library on June 12, 2024 in Yorba Linda, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke multiple times in the span of a few days thisRead More →

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Communications and Outreach (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Kamau M. Marshall — formerly a senior adviser and spokesperson for the Biden-Harris ticket — as a 2024 senior adviser for her new presidential campaign. Marshall, who led then-candidate Joe Biden’s strategic communicationsRead More →