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(NEW YORK) -- Cassie Ventura concluded four days of often painful and intimate testimony on Friday, as she sparred with attorneys for her former boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs, over the consistency of her testimony and the harm she allegedly endured at the hands of the rap mogul.Ventura's testimony, coming right at the start of the much-anticipated Combs criminal trial, appeared to lay a foundation for the prosecution's racketeering and sex-trafficking […]

(FRESNO, CA) -- Tiffany Slaton, 28, said she has always had a love of foraging, gardening and outdoor adventures.But her survival instincts and knowledge of nature were put to the test when she was lost in the mountains of Fresno, California, for nearly three weeks and was finally found alive on Wednesday.Slaton spoke to reporters during a press conference on Friday about her experience that started out as a three-day […]

(MORRIS COUNTY, NJ) -- Drivers riding on Interstate 80 spotted an unexpected present the morning after last Christmas -- a sinkhole just feet away from where cars were passing by in suburban New Jersey.“Look at how far it goes under there,” a man says in police video footage obtained by ABC News on Friday. “They may have to shut the whole [expletive] road down.”It was a prediction that turned out […]

(ST. LOUIS) -- At least 23 people were reported dead across several states in an expansive outbreak of severe weather from the Heartland to the East Coast.State officials reported 14 people were killed in Kentucky, seven in Missouri and two in Virginia.Over 600,000 customers are without power across multiple states, stretching from Michigan to Tennessee.Remnant storms from Friday's severe weather outbreak are continuing into Saturday morning.At least 26 tornadoes were […]

(WASHINGTON) - Hundreds of parents and children separated under the "zero-tolerance" border policy during President Donald Trump's first term -- who were later reunited and protected by a 2023 settlement -- are at risk of being separated again due to a lapse in legal services, lawyers argue.Under the 2023 court-approved settlement agreement, reached as a result of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018, the federal government agreed to provide certain […]

UIG via Getty Images, FILE (WHITE CASTLE, La.) -- A devastating fire destroyed the Louisiana's historic Nottoway Resort, the largest antebellum mansion in the South, officials confirmed Friday."The fire has been contained now, but there's no more Nottoway. The house is completely destroyed," Iberville Sheriff's Department Capt. Monty Migliacio told ABC News on Friday.Emergency calls came in around 2:10 p.m. Thursday, reporting the fire, Migliacio told ABC News. The Iberville […]

(NEW YORK) -- Destructive, long-track tornadoes are possible from Arkansas to Ohio on Friday as over 70 million Americans prepare for potential severe weather.Strong tornadoes, destructive winds in excess of 75 mph and very large hail the size of baseballs are possible.More than 300,000 customers are without power on Friday afternoon, including over 200,000 in Michigan, with severe weather moving through the Midwest overnight.  One or two tornadoes may become […]

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) -- Eleven adult men escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday and should be considered armed and dangerous, officials with the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office warned.One of the inmates has been apprehended; 10 remain at large, the sheriff's office said.The men were unaccounted for during a routine headcount at the Orleans Justice Center at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson […]

(NEW YORK) -- A New Jersey man convicted of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, while on stage at a speaking event, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday, the maximum sentence he faced.His sentencing hearing was held Friday morning in Chautauqua County Court. A defense motion to set aside the verdict was also heard prior to sentencing, the court said.He rejected a plea deal […]