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(LAS VEGAS) -- The man who went viral in January for leaping over a Las Vegas, Nevada, courtroom bench and attacking the presiding judge is set to return to court for trial this week, with jury selection beginning Tuesday.Deobra Redden, 31, is facing nine charges for assaulting Judge Mary Kay Holthus, including battery on a protected person resulting in substantial bodily harm and attempted murder of a victim 60 years […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- There is no reason to delay the sentencing in Donald Trump's criminal hush money case as the former president tries to move the case from state court into federal court, the Manhattan district attorney's office said Tuesday in a letter to the judge overseeing the case.Trump last week made his second request to push the case into federal court, after he was found guilty […]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department unsealed charges Tuesday targeting multiple senior members of Hamas' leadership for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murdering of Americans during the terror group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel.The criminal complaint, unsealed in the Southern District of New York, names six members of Hamas' leadership structure and details extensively their terrorist activities on behalf of the group.This is a developing […]

(MINDEN, La.) -- An 11-year-old has allegedly confessed to fatally shooting a former city council member and his daughter, according to officials in Louisiana.Officers in Minden, about 30 miles east of Shreveport, received a call at 6:30 a.m. Sunday about two bodies inside of a house, Minden Police Chief Jared McIver told ABC News on Tuesday.Responders found Joe Cornelius Sr., 82, and his daughter, Keisha Miles, 31, dead from multiple […]

Courtesy of Tim Beckett (HOUSTON) -- Texas officials are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of a suspect involved in the fatal carjacking of a 90-year-old veteran over the holiday weekend.Nelson Beckett, who served in the Navy, was shot dead and run over by his own car on Saturday in Houston, according to police.Houston patrol officers responded to an assault in progress at an […]

Piccell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- One person is dead and two people have been reported missing with several others injured in what authorities are describing as a “major marine incident” that has caused “mass casualty” in Connecticut, officials said.The North Madison Volunteer Fire Department says that the three people reported missing do not have life jackets and that multiple personnel and ambulances from the towns surrounding Old Saybrook, where the […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Police are investigating five separate shootings that occurred Monday night on Interstate 5 in Washington, authorities said.Police have not confirmed if all of the shootings are connected but have confirmed that several people have been injured across all five incidents, according to a statement from the Washington State Patrol. A suspect was arrested, police said, although it was not immediately clear whether the suspect […]

(RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.) -- An ongoing crisis stemming from a widening landslide is threatening multimillion-dollar homes in the Southern California city of Rancho Palos Verdes.The landslide grew worse over the weekend and prompted an evacuation warning for more than 100 homes in the oceanside community, officials said.Residents in the growing landslide zone, which has spread about 680 acres over the past year the community has been dealing with the […]

WAPT via AP (VICKSBURG, Miss.) -- Seven Mexican nationals killed in a Mississippi bus crash over the weekend were identified Monday, including a 16-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother, authorities said.The names were released to ABC News by Warren County Coroner Doug L. Huskey a day after the National Transportation Safety Board announced that the preliminary investigation showed a tire failure caused the motor coach to run off the road […]