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ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Severe weather and flash flooding continue to threaten much of the central and eastern U.S. on Thursday, disrupting Americans' travel plans.More than 900 flights were halted across the U.S. on Wednesday, with Dallas Fort Worth International Airport hit the hardest with more than 700 of those cancellations. So far on Thursday, nearly 400 flights are canceled.On Thursday, the worst of the severe weather will focus […]

Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images, FILE (LA QUINTA, Calif.) -- Former NFL star John Elway's longtime business partner and former agent died Wednesday after reportedly falling from a golf cart.Jeff Sperbeck, 62, died Wednesday after an accident Saturday evening in La Quinta, California, the Riverside County Coroner confirmed to ABC News.It was not confirmed yet who was driving the golf cart.The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) responded to […]

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- A group of students from a high school in Syracuse, New York, surrendered to authorities on Wednesday for an alleged hazing incident described by the local district attorney as "incomprehensible."All 11 implicated students surrendered themselves to police over the incident after being given a 48-hour deadline, the district attorney's office confirmed to Syracuse ABC affiliate WSYR."I cannot really adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been in touch with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported last month to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, multiple sources familiar with their contact told ABC News.The details of their contact were not immediately clear.ABC News' Karen Travers asked Secretary of State Rubio about Abrego Garcia at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting in Washington, and he would not […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The federal judge overseeing the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday denied a motion from the Trump administration to further delay discovery in the case.The order came a week after the judge paused expedited discovery for seven days after the Trump administration asked her for the stay.The judge, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, earlier this month slammed the administration over its inaction over Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention and ordered […]

(NEW YORK) -- The 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.A wave of staffing cuts and agency turmoil has thrown the World Trade Center Health Program into crisis, disrupting a system that has provided life-saving care to tens of thousands of people for more than two decades.Experts warn that cancer diagnoses could be delayed, […]

(PITTSBURGH) -- Four people have died in Pennsylvania as severe storms hammered much of the U.S. on Tuesday night.A long-lived destructive thunderstorm wind event, known as a derecho, traveled more than 500 miles from eastern Indiana through central Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. Wind gusts reached 80 mph as the more than 60-mile-wide storm complex knocked down trees and power lines along its destructive path.In Franklin Township in eastern Pennsylvania, high […]

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- The district attorney in Syracuse, New York, is giving a group of high school students 48 hours to turn themselves in for an alleged hazing incident that he describes as a "criminal matter.""I cannot really adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and lack of judgement involved in this case," Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick said during a press conference on Tuesday.Fitzpatrick said he […]

(NEWARK, Del.) -- A University of Delaware student was killed and several other people were injured when a U-Haul truck driver fled from police and collided with people near campus, officials said.On Tuesday afternoon, officers in a parking lot spotted a U-Haul truck that had been reported Monday "as an unauthorized use vehicle" after it was rented but was not returned when due last month, Newark police said.As officers moved […]