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(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 27 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 82,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 90,000 are under evacuation warnings."Good Morning America" kicked off its "SoCal Strong" (#SoCalStrong) coverage on Friday, highlighting the impacted […]

(SHILOH, Ala.) -- At a recent church service in Cleveland, a group of visitors from a rural Alabama community nearly 900 miles away, including pastor and business owner Timothy Williams, joined congregants in singing the spiritual "I Don't Mind Waiting."Williams has grown used to waiting.After six years of frequent flooding, two presidential administrations and numerous reassurances from top officials, homeowners like Williams who live in the majority-Black Shiloh community say […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A former CIA analyst arrested in November and charged with leaking highly classified records showing Israeli plans to launch a retaliatory strike on Iran pleaded guilty Friday in a federal court in Virginia.Asif Rahman, 34, pleaded guilty to two counts of transmission of national defense information, according to court records.Rahman faces up to 10 years in prison for the first count and up to three […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A developing winter storm may bring rare snow and ice to cities along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.The storm is set to hit the region on Tuesday.It is too early to say how much snow or ice will fall, but the rare event could pose a major problem on roads and for utility companies.The last time New Orleans saw measurable snow was 2009, […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 82,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 90,000 are under evacuation warnings.Tune into "Good Morning America" on Friday, Jan. 17, as ABC News and ABC owned […]

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) -- President-elect Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the criminal election interference case against him.The filing from Trump's attorneys, just days before Trump's inauguration, asked the court to uphold the appeals court ruling last month that disqualified Willis over her relationship with a prosecutor on the case.Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, made at least $3 million from the merger that formed the parent company of Trump's Truth Social platform, her new personal financial disclosure filing showed.According to the filing, Bondi, like "all other shareholders," received $3 million worth of shares and warrants of the special purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corporation through a Puerto Rico-based LLC "on the morning of the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Six months after a federal judge dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Donald Trump and his two co-defendants, defense attorneys are set to return to Florida to try to prevent the limited release of Smith's final report detailing his investigation.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed out the case based on the constitutionality of Smith's appointment, is considering whether to prevent Attorney General Merrick Garland […]

Mandel Ngan - Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in history, after announcing Friday that he was pardoning nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.Biden said in the announcement -- which came just three days before his term ends -- that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and "serving disproportionately long sentences […]