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(DELAWARE) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million for defamation.Newsom's allegations stem from Fox News host Jesse Watters' coverage of the battle between the governor and President Donald Trump when the Trump administration sent the California National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this month.Watters allegedly reported on Fox News that Newsom lied about a phone call with Trump, and the governor claims in his lawsuit that Watters' […]

Boulder Police Department (BOULDER, Colo.) -- The man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of Colorado marchers advocating for the release of hostages being held in Gaza pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges on Friday.Mohamed Soliman, 45, appeared in federal court in Denver for his arraignment after being indicted this week on a dozen federal charges in connection with the June 1 attack. He had previously been charged […]

(MINNESOTA) -- Minnesotans are lining up at the state capitol on Friday to honor a slain lawmaker and her husband as their accused killer made a brief appearance in court.Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot dead in their home on June 14, are lying in state at the Minnesota State Capitol.Melissa Hortman is the first woman to lie in state, according to the Minnesota House of […]

(MILWAUKEE) Two Milwaukee police officers were shot after responding to a call for a person with a weapon late Thursday, police said.A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting on Friday morning, police said.In what is being described as an "ambush," officers were fired upon as they approached an alley, according to police.A 32-year-old officer has been hospitalized in critical condition while a 29 year-old officer hospitalized with […]

(MOSCOW, Idaho) --  In a series of final rulings ahead of Bryan Kohberger's capital murder trial, Judge Steven Hippler said lawyers for the man who could be executed, if convicted, won't be permitted to present to the jury the theory that some unknown person is the real killer.The trial in the Idaho college killings case will begin Aug. 18, a week later than originally planned, a judge ruled Thursday.With jury […]

(CHELAN COUNTY, Wash.) -- It's been nearly a month since Travis Decker went on the run after allegedly killing his three young daughters near a Washington state campground, and at least one expert told ABC News he believes the fugitive father is likely still alive and will "eventually surface."Paityn Decker, 9; Evenlyn Decker, 8; and Olivia Decker, 5, were killed after they left home for a "planned visitation" with Decker […]

(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for murdering a Texas college student in a random shooting in 2023.Wes Smith, a 21-year-old junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times outside a Fort Worth bar in September 2023, prosecutors said.Matthew Purdy, 23, pleaded guilty to his murder during a hearing in Tarrant County on Thursday. A judge then sentenced him to […]

(HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn.) -- The wife of accused Minnesota lawmaker gunman Vance Boelter said she's "completely blindsided" by the shootings allegedly carried out by her husband."On behalf of my children and myself, I want to express our deepest sympathies to the Hortman and Hoffman families," Jenny Boelter said in a statement released by her attorneys on Thursday. "We are absolutely shocked, heartbroken and completely blindsided.""It is a betrayal of everything we hold […]

(NEW YORK) -- Relief from the extreme heat is moving in for some cities on Thursday, but more than 60 million people in the East are still on alert for dangerously high temperatures.Meanwhile, severe storms with reported tornadoes are targeting the Southeast and the Midwest.Here's the latest:Severe stormsIn the Midwest and the Southeast, tornadoes were reported as severe storms struck Wednesday evening -- and more storms are on the way.Ten tornadoes were […]