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In this June 16, 2025, file photo, U.S. Capitol Police Officers stand guard outside of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE) The FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating "multiple letters containing suspicious substances that were mailed to various addresses nationwide, including multiple Congressional offices," according to a notice sent to Senate staff on Thursday and described to ABC News. Investigators didn't […]

A meeting of Cornell University's faculty senate grew heated Wednesday as school president Michael Kotlikoff faced harsh questions about the Ivy League school's response to the alleged 2024 gang rape of a student at a fraternity house, according to an audio recording of the meeting.Kotlikoff defended the school's recent measures -- including suspending fraternity parties and involving state police in the investigation of sexual assaults on campus -- but was […]

President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference after testifying before the Supreme Court of Justice on Aug. 2, 2024, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Jesus Vargas/Getty Images) Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, each pleaded not guilty Thursday to new charges accusing them of torturing people, including Americans, to help them cling to power.Maduro, in a beige jail smock over a brown T-shirt and wearing glasses, greeted the […]

The most recent inspection of Six Flags Over Georgia's Goliath roller coaster found no violations or deficiencies, the office responsible for the safety of amusement park rides in Georgia said Thursday, days after a man fatally fell from the ride."No violations, deficiencies, citations, or red tags were reported" during the March 16 inspection, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (OCI) in Georgia said in a statement.ABC News […]

A 19-year-old Illinois man has been charged after an investigation into an alleged plan to carry out a mass shooting that may have targeted a Hindu place of worship in the Aurora area, police said.Alexandros Paporakis of Palatine was arrested Sunday after the Palatine Police Department received information from the Mount Prospect Police Department about a potential mass shooting, according to a statement from Palatine police.The information came from an […]

Nearly a week after he was shot during an encounter with Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers in Manhattan, the man remains held at a detention center with the bullet still inside him, his attorneys alleged in a court filing Wednesday.Oscar Belgal was shot Thursday in his car while his 5-year-old son was in the back seat, authorities said. Attorneys with the Legal Aid Society said in a habeas petition that […]

Authorities searched the Pennsylvania home of a family at the center of a double homicide at a Poconos resort as they tried to find a motive for why a woman allegedly killed her husband and 3-year-old son before trying to take her own life, according to court filings.The "violent domestic tragedy" unfolded on Monday in a room at the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pocono Township, officials said.Police responding to […]

The Cornell professor who introduced a no-confidence resolution condemning the school's leadership lambasted what he described as a "culture of fear" at the Ivy League school during Wednesday's faculty senate meeting, according to a copy of his remarks reviewed by ABC News. During the closed-door meeting, Paul Ortiz, a professor of labor history, criticized Cornell leadership for treating "rape as a 'PR problem,' rather than a heinous crime." "Most of the current […]

A person of interest has been identified in an alleged sexual assault that took place at a fraternity near the University of Chicago, according to university officials."The individual is not a University of Chicago student or affiliated with the University. The University banned him from campus," the university wrote in a statement Tuesday.At around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, a woman not affiliated with the university reported that she was […]