David Eulitt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI has issued a formal warning to sports leagues about organized theft groups targeting professional athletes. The warning follows a rash of burglaries, beginning in September, at the homes of professional athletes while they were playing games or traveling. “These homes are targeted forRead More →

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson amid a fight over the House gavel that will culminate in a vote at the end of the week. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man,” Trump wrote at theRead More →

ABC News (NEW YORK) — It’ll be a rainy New Year’s Eve in New York City, but dry and warm for much of the country. Here’s what you need to know: Rain will hit the Ohio River Valley on Tuesday and then push into the Northeast in the evening. Detroit andRead More →

Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a jury’s verdict last year that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided “Trump has not demonstrated that the district courtRead More →

Benjamin E. “Gene” Forte/CNP/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held on Jan. 9 at Washington National Cathedral. Carter, the son of a peanut farmer who was elected the nation’s 39th president, passed away surrounded by familyRead More →

Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of dedication to that cause, has diedRead More →

ABC News The outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on ABC’s “This Week” that President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal could drive allies of the United States toward Russia and China. In an interview Sunday with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Sen. Ben Cardin,Read More →

ABC News Republican Rep. Mike Lawler argued Sunday that Rep. Mike Johnson should be reelected as speaker of the House despite Republican infighting on whether he should keep the position after how he handled a spending bill that prevented a government shutdown last week. “Mike Johnson inherited a disaster whenRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (DELRAY BEACH, Fla.) — A Brightline train collided with a fire truck on Saturday morning in Delray Beach, Florida, injuring three firefighters and 12 train passengers, city officials said. The three injured Delray Beach firefighters were transported to a local hospital, where they are currently in stableRead More →

David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The only man to lead both the FBI and the CIA urged caution to senators who might vote to confirm former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Kash Patel to lead the FBI, according to a letter sent to senators thisRead More →