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Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from Mark Meadows, the one-time chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, to move his Georgia election interference case into federal court.Meadows was charged alongside Trump and 18 others last year in the Fulton County racketeering case over their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. Meadows and the others pleaded not guilty […]

(GREEN LAKE, Wis.) -- A husband and father of three who vanished at a Wisconsin lake this summer may have faked his own death and fled to Eastern Europe, authorities said, and the sheriff is now urging the missing man to come forward."Our most important thing, for us, is to know that you're safe," Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said in his message to Ryan Borgwardt. "We can talk […]

(TUSKEGEE, Ala.) -- The president of Tuskegee University in Alabama announced Monday that the school is being closed to outsiders and that its security chief has been fired in the wake of a mass shooting Sunday on campus.The barrage of gunfire left a teenager dead and injured 16 other people attending an unsanctioned homecoming event, officials said.Mark Brown, president and CEO of the historically black university, announced the changes as […]

(YEMASSEE, S.C.) -- More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered.As of Monday evening, 30 of the 43 furry runaways, that broke loose Wednesday from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemasee, have now successfully been captured."Efforts to safely capture the remaining primates will continue throughout the evening and as long as necessary, " a spokesperson for the Yemassee […]

(PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- Kai Trump, President-elect Donald Trump's 17-year-old granddaughter, released an "Election Night Vlog" on her YouTube channel Monday afternoon, where she took viewers behind the scenes into her family's experience awaiting results on election night."I'm ready to party it up tonight, and hopefully we can catch a dub," Kai Trump said, tapping into Gen-Z slang.She provided an inside look into the viral family photo taken in Mar-a-Lago […]

(NEW YORK) -- Many teenagers and college students reported being among those who received racist text messages sent to phone numbers across the U.S. last week.The texts, which tell the user they're going to be taken to a plantation to "pick cotton," have been reported in at least 24 states, plus Washington, D.C, and primarily appeared to target Black users from teenagers to adults, according to investigators in several states.Most […]

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) -- A suspect who allegedly killed a man and made the death appear to have happened in a fall from a cliff -- all in a bid to steal the victim's identity -- has been captured following a weekslong manhunt, authorities said.Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, was taken into custody on Sunday in Columbia, South Carolina, authorities said.Hamlett had been sought following the death of a man on a […]

ABC News (DELPHI, Ind.) -- Delphi, Indiana, resident Richard Allen was found guilty on all charges on Monday in the double murders of best friends Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14.The jury's verdict came on the fourth day of deliberations in the high-profile case that shocked the nation.Allen was stoic in court and did not react to the verdict, but his mother and wife sobbed.Allen was convicted of felony […]

(NEW YORK CITY) -- A wildfire raging on the border of New York and New Jersey exploded overnight to 5,000 acres, prompting officials on Monday to postpone one of the oldest Veterans Day Parades in the nation.As firefighters battled the Jennings Creek Fire straddling the border between Orange County, New York, and Passaic County, New Jersey, organizers of the 80th annual West Milford, New York, Veterans Day Parade, announced the […]