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(MIAMI) -- After weeks of complaints from detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" that they lack access to their attorneys, a federal judge in Miami will consider whether noncitizens housed at the temporary migrant detention center are being deprived of their due process rights.At a hearing Monday, a group of detainees at the facility is asking U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz, a Trump appointee, to issue an order that would require the […]

A Dominion Voting machine is seen during the last day of early voting in Gwinnett County, Georgia on November 1, 2024. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems has settled its defamation lawsuit against conservative media outlet Newsmax for $67 million, according to an SEC filing from the outlet.It's the latest settlement paid by a media outlet over its 2020 election coverage.This is […]

Hurricane Erin - The Fifth Named Storm Map/ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Erin, now a powerful Category 4 storm churning in the Caribbean, is not forecast to hit land, but it will bring large waves and dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast.Here's the latest forecast:Erin’s outer bands lashed the Caribbean this weekend, flooding Puerto Rico and leaving more than 60,000 customers on the island without power on Monday.A tropical storm warning […]

Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Two Utah police officers were killed and a third was injured along with his service dog when they responded to a domestic disturbance call at a home on Sunday night and were fired on by a suspect inside the residence, authorities said Monday morning.The shooting unfolded in Tremonton, about 70 miles north of Salt Lake City, Brigham City Police Chief Chad Reyes said […]

Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. State Department has announced that it's suspending the issuance of all visitor visas for people from the war-torn Gaza Strip, including children in need of urgent medical care."All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in […]

Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Three officers were shot and injured while responding to domestic disturbance call at a residence in Utah, law enforcement said.A suspect was taken into custody following the shooting, Detective Crystal Beck, of the Brigham City Police Department, told reporters in a press conference.The officers’ conditions were unknown, Beck said.When they arrived at the residence in Tremonton they were immediately shot at […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two Americans have died from apparent drownings in separate incidents on the same day at the same Bahamas resort, officials said on Sunday.The drownings occurred at Celebration Key, a new $600 million private resort for guests of Carnival Cruise Line that opened in July, authorities said."Our lifeguards and medical team responded to two separate emergency incidents at Celebration Key on Friday -- one in the lagoon and […]

(NEW YORK) --- Three men, including a 19-year-old, were killed and nine other people were injured early Sunday when a dispute inside a crowded New York City nightclub erupted into a shooting incident that police said appeared to have involved multiple gunmen firing dozens of shots.No one has been arrested in the deadly incident, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a noon news conference on Sunday, which followed an initial […]

(GRUETLI-LAAGER, Tenn.) -- A man has died after he was bitten by a venomous snake at a Tennessee state park, according to park officials.The victim, who was not identified, was hiking at the Savage Gulf State Park -- about 60 miles northwest of Chattanooga -- when he was bitten on Aug. 8, Grundy County Emergency Management Agency Director Matthew Griffith said in a statement to ABC News.The hiker was about […]