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Kilmar Abrego Garcia (R) and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura (L) attend a prayer vigil before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in Tennessee will hear arguments Thursday over whether the government is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.The hearing comes after the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump did not mention their names in his speech, but Alex Pretti and Renee Good loomed over the State of the Union address.Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, and Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, were both fatally shot in January by federal law enforcement deployed to Minneapolis during the Trump administration's "Operation Metro Surge" immigration crackdown.While the deaths of Good, who was killed on Jan. 7, and […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appears to have successfully hidden a trove of potential evidence of his crimes from investigators for more than a decade, according to documents released this month by the Department of Justice. Internal correspondence between Epstein's attorneys and private investigators, as well as previously sealed court filings, suggest that the disgraced financier went to extreme lengths to hide the potential evidence during the critical three-year period […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced on Wednesday that he would resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard University at the end of the academic year.Summers -- who has been on leave from the university since November -- also resigned from his role as the co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, according to a Harvard spokesperson.The resignation was made "in connection with […]

(NEW YORK) -- Turning on the tap for a glass of water or to wash produce may become significantly less predictable because of climate change.According to a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, climate change is making access to drinkable water more difficult in the United States.Hazards intensified by climate change, like drought and flooding, threaten both the quantity and quality of drinking water across the U.S., according to […]

In this Oct. 30, 2025, file photo, superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks at the LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE) (LOS ANGELES) -- Law enforcement is executing a court-approved search warrant at the home of Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school district, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in LA.Sources told ABC News that […]

A man on cross-country skis travels through Central Park after a historic blizzard hit parts of the East Coast, on February 24, 2026 in New York City. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Snow is moving through the Northeast Wednesday morning, though much of the snow is light with heavier bands of precipitation further inland and higher elevations.In New York City, snow is expected to last a few hours before […]

(NEW YORK) -- Meredith Gaudreau, the widow of professional hockey player Johnny Gaudreau, is speaking out about the emotional moment the U.S. men's hockey team celebrated her husband and their children at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.As soon as USA beat Canada 2-1 in the gold medal game on Sunday, the players brought two of Johnny Gaudreau's kids onto the ice. Three-year-old Noa and Johnny Jr. -- who turned 2 that same […]

(MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.) -- Weather conditions have again delayed operations leading to the launch of the Artemis II rocket mission to the moon.The rollback of the Artemis II rocket and spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was originally scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Due to high winds in the area, NASA said its plans to move the rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II off the launch pad and […]