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(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday that it's providing water trailers to Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a water crisis.The trailers will be distributed for up to 30 days initially, following the Puerto Rican government's request for federal support, a FEMA spokesperson said."This support is intended to assist local efforts as Puerto Rico manages increased demand for potable water distribution in affected communities," the […]

(NEW YORK) -- Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon said on Sunday that authorities are working closely with federal agencies as they grapple with a water crisis that has left more than 180,000 households facing 48-hour water supply shuts-off and rationing.Gonzalez-Colon declared a state of emergency in the U.S. territory on July 31 in response to serious drought and falling levels in water reservoirs. On Friday, authorities began implementing rotating 48-hour water […]

The New York Police Department said a 27-year-old woman and a 5-month-old girl were killed, August 8, 2026, when the boat they were aboard capsized near Liberty Island in New York Harbor, pictured here. (Aire Images/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- The operator of a boat that capsized in New York Harbor, leaving a mother and her baby daughter dead, is in federal custody, prosecutors said.Manuel Hernandez, 46, is due to […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The mother of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree on Aug. 3 in Jackson, Mississippi, told ABC News on Sunday afternoon that her daughter’s death has “just devastated" her family.“This has just devastated us,” Fortune's mother, Christy Spivey, said. “Tasia was strong-minded, she was full of laughs and love, she had faith in God. … She had so little and gave […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that there was "no video or proof" of alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after weeks of claiming that damage to the pool's surface was the deliberate work of saboteurs. Even after acknowledging contractor error and a lack of evidence of vandalism on Sunday, the president still went back to the case against former Olympian David Hearn, whose charges prosecutors moved […]

(NEW YORK) -- A manhunt continued Saturday for a suspect in upstate New York believed to have killed his father and set fire to the home to cover it up, according to law enforcement sources.The suspect, Thomas Ryan, 32, is known to frequent the Plattsburgh area in Clinton County and is considered armed and dangerous, New York State Police said in a statement Friday.On Thursday, investigators responded to a fire […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was partially refilled on Friday to flush out what the National Park Service said were clogged pipes that supply water to the monument, marking the latest twist in the Trump administration's plagued renovation project.NPS wrote in a sign posted outside the Reflecting Pool that more than half of the 58 supply ports were "deemed nonfunctioning" due to buildup and needed to be cleared.The posting blamed the clogged […]

Construction at the future site of a helipad and ballroom on the South Lawn of the White House on July 3, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- A federal appeals court has issued a ruling blocking the construction of President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, concluding that congressional approval is needed for the project. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2026, ABC […]

National Park Service water intake pipes that used to draw water from Lake Mead are shown going down the side of Pyramid Island, which is no longer surrounded by water, to the left of Saddle Island, which displays a white "bathtub ring" of mineral deposits left by higher water levels on the rocks on July 25, 2026, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) […]