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When the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, then-President Barack Obama said, "This agreement represents the best chance we've had to save the one planet that we've got.”But a decade later, a new report, led by University College London in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), finds that while progress has been made, many detrimental health indicators linked to climate change are moving in the wrong direction. The report's […]

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building, June 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has refused to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress over […]

The Alexander brothers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, after being found guilty on all counts in their federal sex trafficking trial in New York City.The former real estate titans, Oren and Alon Alexander, 39-year-old twins, along with their brother, Tal Alexander, 40, were accused by prosecutors of a "decade-long sex trafficking and sexual abuse scheme."The three brothers will have to participate in sex offender treatment […]

In this June 9, 2025, file photo, a room sign is shown outside of an immigration court at the Ted Weiss Federal Building in New York. (Adam Gray/Getty Images, FILE) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to unfreeze a Biden-era policy that allowed immigration judges to use their discretion to temporarily close deportation cases for immigrants.In an unsigned order, the court rejected a request from three cities with large migrant […]

Tiffany & Co storefront (Getty Images stock photo/Robert Way) A thief who stole earrings valued at over $760,000 and later swallowed them while being arrested is set to be sentenced in December after he was found guilty of grand theft and robbery, the state attorney's office for Florida's ninth judicial circuit announced.Jaythan Gilder received the guilty verdict last week after a trial surrounding the theft of jewelry at a Tiffany […]

A federal judge has ordered a top Department of Justice official back into court after President Donald Trump posted on his social media account affirming that East Potomac Golf Course will close Nov. 15 for renovations — directly contradicting repeated assertions from administration officials in a hearing last week. District Judge Ana Reyes has ordered Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to clarify whether his prior statements to her that there were […]

A Florida mother has been arrested after she allegedly left her four children, who are under 14 years old, home alone while she was working in Las Vegas, according to officials.Irene Miller, 50, was arrested on four counts of child neglect, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office announced Monday.Miller told investigators she was working in Las Vegas and a babysitter was checking on the children, according to the sheriff's office. When […]

Attorneys for a former FBI agent charged with lying to Congress about the probe into Hunter Biden's laptop computer called the charges "a serious abuse of the criminal charging process" Tuesday.The Justice Department on Friday charged two former senior FBI officials for allegedly making false statements to Congress, stemming from a probe into whether investigators in the lead-up to the 2020 election sought to suppress or discredit the veracity of […]

Election officials from coast to coast are facing a slew of challenges ahead of the high-stakes midterms, from the Trump administration's bid to impose itself on state-run elections to last-minute court challenges and threats faced by election workers -- all under a persistent sense of distrust in the voting process itself, some experts told ABC News."Usually the temperature is much higher -- and emotions run much hotter -- in a […]