ABC News Despite celebrating the passing of abortion-related ballot initiatives in seven states, abortion rights advocates warn that a second Donald Trump presidency puts nationwide access to abortion care in danger. “An already harmful abortion access crisis will likely get worse,” Kelly Baden, the vice president of policy at theRead More →

Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, S.C.) — The ongoing operation to capture 43 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab nabbed at least one of the furry runaways on Saturday, according to officials. Officials in the town of Yemassee said they recovered overnight one of the rhesus macaque monkeys thatRead More →

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Despite Kamala Harris’ loss, pro-abortion rights activists are celebrating the results of the 2024 election, arguing that abortion rights won. “When we look at the election results from this week, we saw voters in states that are really different from each other, in largeRead More →

mbbirdy/Getty Images (SEATTLE) — Five people were stabbed in Seattle on Friday, marking the latest incident in a string of stabbings over the past two days in the same area, police said. A suspect was taken into custody following Friday’s stabbing attack, which appeared to be random, Seattle Police DeputyRead More →

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in portions of a New York Times podcast interview published Friday, blamed Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss on President Joe Biden’s late exit from the presidential race and the lack of Democratic primary. Pelosi told Lulu Garcia-Navarro, aRead More →

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 →