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A former congressional staffer has been accused of fabricating a violent attack against herself at a New Jersey park, according to a criminal complaint.Natalie Greene, 26, paid a body modification artist to scar her and then claimed she had been assaulted in a politically motivated crime in July, the complaint alleges. The Ocean City, New Jersey, native has been charged with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law […]

The FBI and Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office are looking for missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard. FBI (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- A false imprisonment charge has been dropped against Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, according to Santa Barbara ABC affiliate KEYT.At Thursday's preliminary hearing, the judge dismissed the case after hearing audio of a conversation between Ashlee Buzzard and the alleged victim, Tyler Brewer, and found the audio […]

(AKRON, Ohio) -- A police officer in Ohio is on leave after firing his gun multiple times at a man who is believed to have been unarmed, according to local officials.An investigation into the incident, which took place in Akron, is underway, they said.“Any time someone is seriously injured in an encounter with police -- even when responding to reports of a threat -- it is a serious and sobering […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice is probing the conduct of at least two top Trump administration officials for allegedly interfering with and potentially jeopardizing the ongoing criminal investigations of the president's political adversaries, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Sources said the DOJ and FBI are scrutinizing whether U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte enlisted individuals outside the Department of Justice […]

(NEW YORK) -- A top ICE official struggled to answer questions about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's potential deportation during an evidentiary hearing on Thursday, and admitted that someone else helped draft his sworn declaration submitted in the case.John Cantu was called to testify about why the government is not planning to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica and is instead preparing to remove him to the West African nation of Liberia.When […]

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Newly released photos included in a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville show the moment the aircraft's left engine came off during takeoff and ignited.Federal investigators are focusing on metal fatigue cracks around the engine of the UPS plane that crashed on Nov. 5, killing 14 people, according to a new report by the NTSB.In a preliminary report released Thursday, the […]

(PEAKS ISLAND, Maine) -- A Bentley University professor who was last seen on an island off the coast of Maine has been missing for nearly a week, according to the Maine Warden Service.Wiley Davi, a 57-year-old English and media studies professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, was last seen on the evening of Nov. 15 on Maine's Peak's Island, the warden service said in a statement on Monday.As of […]

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conduct operations in the Little Village neighborhood, a predominantly Mexican American community in Chicago, United States on November 08, 2025. Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images (CHICAGO) -- The Department of Justice has abruptly moved to dismiss the indictment against two people accused last month of "ambushing" federal agents conducting an immigration sweep in Chicago, including a woman who was shot five times in the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- As the Justice Department's criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey looks increasingly imperiled, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan and other DOJ officials are leveling unusual public attacks at the judge overseeing the case by mischaracterizing comments he made at a Wednesday hearing. "Personal attacks -- like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a 'puppet' -- don't change the facts or the law," Halligan […]