State election officials who will oversee voting for the November general election prepare for disruptions from artificial intelligence during a training session in Phoenix, Ariz.. Via ABC News (PHOENIX) — In the final weeks of a divisive, high-stakes campaign season, state election officials in political battleground states say they areRead More →
Everoak Farms volunteers harvest sugar cane that could be salvaged after heavy winds and water from Hurricane Milton wrecked and flooded crops on the Orlando, Florida, farm. (Rich Pope/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ) — Florida’s agricultural fields — including the state’s iconic orange groves andRead More →
Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — All charges were dropped Thursday against Tyron McAlpin, a disabled Black man in Arizona who had been facing charges of felony assault and resisting arrest after a pair of Phoenix police officers punched him and shocked him with a stun gun. McAlpin is deaf andRead More →
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The second suspect who was arrested earlier this week in connection to the deadly Michigan home invasion on Oct. 11 that left 72-year-old Rochester Hills businessman Hussein Murray dead has been formally charged with multiple counts, including felony murder, police said. “Joshua Zuazo, 39, ofRead More →
Ilana Panich-linsman/Innocence Project/AFP via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited “shaken baby syndrome” hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his death sentence. Late Thursday evening, the TexasRead More →
Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office (GALLATIN COUNTY, MT) — Investigators are asking for help solving a “vicious” murder that was so brutal a 911 caller had reported it as a possible bear attack, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office. A friend found 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem dead in a tent onRead More →
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (MIAMI, FLORIDA) — As Election Day nears, Donald Trump is continuing his long-standing effort to recast the violent events of Jan. 6, 2021, now calling it a “day of love” even as he tries to distance himself from what happened. A Republican audience member, during a UnivisionRead More →
Kelly Livingston/ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted Thursday to approve new rules requiring all wireless carriers to implement georouting for calls to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in a move it says will help “save more lives.” “Time and again, across many different communities,Read More →
ABC News (BURLINGTON, Vt.) Residents of parts of upstate New York and Vermont awoke to winter-like weather Thursday morning, including the earliest a foot of snow has fallen in the higher elevations of the Green Mountain state in 14 years. The overnight snowfall brought 12 inches to Mount Mansfield, the highest peakRead More →
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference case to further delay the release of a redacted appendix containing evidence amassed by special counsel Jack Smith in his probe of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a ThursdayRead More →
