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(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration's takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was unlawful, and efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to dismantle the agency are "null and void," according to court filings.D.C. federal judge Beryl Howell's ruling says that President Donald Trump's unilateral effort to disband the agency, which primarily functions as a think tank supporting both the executive and legislative […]

ABC (GREER, Ariz.) -- A wildfire in eastern Arizona continues to burn, expanding to over 20,000 acres, with more red flag warnings in effect on Monday.The Greer Fire, named after the small community in Arizona's White Mountains where the blaze sparked on May 13, has grown to 20,425 acres and is 38% contained, officials said on Monday.A red flag warning in northeastern Arizona -- including the area of the flames […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Mexican Navy sailboat with 277 people on board crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others who were on board in a dramatic scene along the New York City waterfront, according to authorities.The crash occurred at 8:30 p.m., resulting in at least 19 people injured, according to the New York Police Department. Four people were left with serious injuries, according […]

(NEW YORK) -- Around 30 million people from Texas to Illinois are bracing for another day of potentially destructive storms following a tornado outbreak that slammed communities across the Heartland to the East Coast.Since Thursday, at least 28 people have been killed, including 19 in Kentucky, where a powerful EF-3 twister tore through Laurel County in the southeastern part of the state, officials said.At least 250 tornadoes were reported since Thursday. They […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Joe and Jill Biden said on Monday they were thankful for the "love and support" they've received since the former president's office announced his cancer diagnosis on Sunday."Cancer touches us all," the couple said in a post on Joe Biden's social media account. "Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and […]

A tentative agreement has been reached to end New Jersey's first statewide transit strike in more than 40 years, according to the union representing the engineers and train operators.Trains are set to resume operations on Tuesday, according to NJ Transit. The union had previously indicated trains would resume on Monday."We will have a deal. Strike will end," the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) said in a statement.Terms of […]

(NEW YORK) -- Cassie Ventura concluded four days of often painful and intimate testimony on Friday, as she sparred with attorneys for her former boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs, over the consistency of her testimony and the harm she allegedly endured at the hands of the rap mogul.Ventura's testimony, coming right at the start of the much-anticipated Combs criminal trial, appeared to lay a foundation for the prosecution's racketeering and sex-trafficking […]

(FRESNO, CA) -- Tiffany Slaton, 28, said she has always had a love of foraging, gardening and outdoor adventures.But her survival instincts and knowledge of nature were put to the test when she was lost in the mountains of Fresno, California, for nearly three weeks and was finally found alive on Wednesday.Slaton spoke to reporters during a press conference on Friday about her experience that started out as a three-day […]

(MORRIS COUNTY, NJ) -- Drivers riding on Interstate 80 spotted an unexpected present the morning after last Christmas -- a sinkhole just feet away from where cars were passing by in suburban New Jersey.“Look at how far it goes under there,” a man says in police video footage obtained by ABC News on Friday. “They may have to shut the whole [expletive] road down.”It was a prediction that turned out […]