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Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) -- Mattel has apologized after boxes for some of its new dolls from the movie "Wicked" included a link to a pornographic website.The packages for the dolls were printed with a web address to an adult film site with the same name as the upcoming movie musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.Customers who noticed the mistake shared images of the toy boxes on […]

(BRANDYWINE, Md.)  -- On 7 acres in Brandywine, Maryland, Peter Scott, a former United States Army counterintelligence agent assigned to Special Forces, is farming to help food-insecure veterans in the D.C. metropolitan region.“I was at a place in life where I needed to do something and I needed to feel like it was something good after my time in service,” said Scott.He returned stateside after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.“I […]

Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, S.C.) -- The ongoing operation to capture 43 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab nabbed at least one of the furry runaways on Saturday, according to officials.Officials in the town of Yemassee said they recovered overnight one of the rhesus macaque monkeys that had escaped from Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center on Wednesday."She is well and having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich," Alpha […]

(NEW YORK) -- A large storm over the central U.S. is bringing a range of weather issues, from flooding rain and severe weather to heavy snow in the Rockies.This early season snowstorm has brought more than three feet of snow to portions of New Mexico.Angel Fire, New Mexico, is home to a popular ski resort that has picked up 40 inches of snowfall in the last 36 hours. That’s still […]

(SEATTLE) -- Five people were stabbed in Seattle on Friday, marking the latest incident in a string of stabbings over the past two days in the same area, police said.A suspect was taken into custody following Friday's stabbing attack, which appeared to be random, Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Barden told reporters at a press briefing.The suspect, whose name has not been released, is believed to be linked to several […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Chinese effort to hack prominent Americans is far more pervasive than previously reported, ABC News has learned.Sources told ABC News that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials are concerned the espionage operation by the Chinese government may have been in place for well over a year -- and perhaps longer -- before it was recently discovered.The Chinese appear to have been able to gather large volumes […]

(SANTA FE, NM) -- A major storm system is bringing a historic early season snowstorm to New Mexico and Colorado.Some areas could see up to 3 to 4 feet of snow, as the storm system moves out of the Southwest and into the western Plains.A blizzard warning has been issued for parts of northern New Mexico, where a combination of strong winds and snow could reduce visibility to near zero.New […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A text messaging service said Friday that it discovered "one or more" of its users allegedly sent out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut down the accounts.A representative from TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people to create phone numbers for free, told ABC News that the company was cooperating with law enforcement and condemned the vile messages that […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The judge in former President Donald Trump's federal election interference case has paused all upcoming deadlines in the case, after special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Friday requesting the pause.As ABC News previously reported, Smith and the Justice Department are in talks about the best way to wind down the election case and his classified documents case, following Trump's election victory on Tuesday.The decision is based on longstanding […]