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(MADERA COUNTY, Calif.) -- Two farmworkers were honored Tuesday for rescuing 20 children from a burning school bus last month in California.Carlos Perea Romero and Angel Zarco were honored by the Madera County Board of Supervisors in a ceremony after they courageously evacuated the flaming bus filled with students on the way to school on Sept. 4."All the students made it out safely without any injuries due to the immediate […]

(NEW YORK) -- After federal agents carried out a joint Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood on Tuesday, a federal official said the city will see an "increase in ICE arrests" because there are "so many criminal illegal" immigrants."You will see us making those criminal arrests to make New York safe again. It's definitely intelligence driven, it's not random. We aren't pulling people off the street. There […]

(ATLANTA) -- A man accused of going to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after making a threat to shoot it up now faces multiple federal charges, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.Billy Joe Cagle, 49, was taken into custody in a terminal at the airport on Monday after a family member reported the alleged threat to police, authorities said. An AR-15-style firearm was located in his pickup truck, which was parked in […]

(NEW YORK) -- For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disaster dataset put a dollar figure on the cost of climate change and severe weather events. Understanding the scope and frequency of weather-related damage helped first responders, the insurance industry, and researchers with their planning, recovery operations, and assessments.But in May, the Trump administration announced it was shutting down the website that hosted the dataset. That made it […]

In this photo illustration, Mega Millions lottery tickets are displayed on August 01, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Mega Million jackpot is now up to $680 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night's drawing.The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m. While no one won the big prize, one person in Illinois did win $3 million for matching all of the […]

Tropical outlook, Caribbean Sea. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Melissa, which is taking aim on the Caribbean, may strengthen to a hurricane in the next 24 to 48 hours.The storm will stay away from the mainland United States. Instead, Melissa poses the biggest threat to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica, where days of heavy rain and severe winds could lead to life-threatening landslides.Here's the latest forecast:Melissa […]

A baby was found on a subway platform in Manhattan, New York, on Oct. 20, 2025. (WABC) (NEW YORK) -- The mother of a newborn baby found abandoned at a Midtown Manhattan subway station has been arrested, police said.Assa Diawara, 30, was arrested early Wednesday in Queens on charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the New York Police Department.The baby girl […]

A bomb detection robot inspects a vehicle that rammed a security barricade at the White House complex on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Secret Service reported that one individual was arrested and that the vehicle is now deemed safe. Andrew Leyden/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A person has been arrested after driving his car into a security gate near the White House on Tuesday night, the U.S. Secret Service […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has filed a motion seeking to dissolve the remaining order preventing them from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.The filing on Monday came after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned, earlier that day, another temporary restraining order that prevented the Trump administration from deploying the Oregon National Guard to Portland. A panel of judges found that the Trump administration was likely to succeed on […]