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Alexander Drago, Pool via AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Mayor Eric Adams's criminal defense attorney was at Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Friday to discuss the future of the mayor's criminal bribery case, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Adams' attorney Alex Spiro attended the meeting along with federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, including acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and acting chief of the […]

(CALIFORNIA) -- A California man has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison for operating a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft during the early days of the Palisades Fire, prosecutors announced Friday.Peter Akemann, 56, of Culver City, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft for the Jan. 9 drone collision, which […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News.The directive instructs web managers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to the emails.In an email sent Thursday, USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee detailed […]