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(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said.The two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box incident that occurred earlier this month in Vancouver, Washington, police said.In the first reported incident on Monday, Portland police responded to a fire […]

Alex Perez/ABC News (Delphi, IND) -- No DNA was found at the site of the Delphi, Indiana, double murders to tie the suspect, Richard Allen, or anyone else to the crime scene, a forensic scientist testified Monday during Allen's trial.Best friends Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were walking along a hiking trail in rural Delphi when they were stabbed to death and left in the woods on Feb. […]

(NEW YORK CITY) -- Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe came under fire for comments made about Latinos and Puerto Rico at former President Donald Trump's Sunday campaign rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden.After making a vulgar joke about how Latinos "love making babies," Hinchcliffe later turned to the Caribbean island."I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the […]

(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire early Monday, police in both states said.It is unclear if the two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are connected.In the first reported incident, a ballot box in Portland, Oregon, was set on fire with an incendiary device, police said.Portland police responded to reports of a fire at a ballot box around 3:30 a.m. local […]

(FRESNO, Calif.) -- A Central California police sergeant was in a hospital recovering from bullet wounds Monday after he was "ambushed" over the weekend by a gunman who was killed in a subsequent shoot-out and later linked to a homicide victim found inside a residence, authorities said.The shooting unfolded on Saturday in Fresno after the sergeant and two patrol officers were dispatched to investigate a ShotSpotter gunshot detection call at about 5:23 […]

Portland Police Bureau (PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A ballot box in Portland, Oregon, was set on fire with an incendiary device Monday, police said.Portland police responded to reports of a fire at a ballot box around 3:30 a.m. local time on Monday. Security personnel who worked in the area were able to extinguish the fire, police said."Officers determined an incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box and used to ignite […]

(PITTSBURG,, P.A.) -- Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday commemorated six years since the deadly shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue."This unspeakable act – fueled by antisemitic hate – was the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community in our Nation’s history," Harris said in a statement, in part.On Oct. 27, 2018, a white supremacist gunman opened fire inside the synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, killing 11 people […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (PENSACOLA, Fla.) -- A NASA astronaut who experienced a "medical issue" following the successful Space X Crew-8 mission has been released from the hospital, NASA officials said Saturday."After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday. The crew member is in good health and will resume normal post-flight reconditioning with […]

(NEW YORK) -- The former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model who has accused former President Donald Trump of groping her in front of Jeffrey Epstein in the early 1990s is offering more details about what she claims she observed about Epstein's relationship with the current presidential candidate and what she says Epstein told her."I would say that he talked about having just seen Donald or having just done something, I mean, […]