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Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, speaks during the 76th FIFA Congress on April 30, 2026, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo by Rich Lam - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Iran will be participating in the 2026 World Cup and will play in the United States, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in remarks Thursday."Of course Iran will play in the United States of America," he said. "And the reason for that […]

(KERR COUNTY, Texas) -- Camp Mystic announced that it will not be reopening for the summer amid ongoing investigations into deadly flooding that killed 25 girls and two teen counselors last year.The camp said it informed the Texas Department of State Health Services on Thursday that it is withdrawing its application for a summer 2026 camp license."No administrative process or summer season should move forward while families continue to grieve, while investigations […]

(DILLEY, Texas) -- Olivia Mabiala Andre made her youngest brother, Manuel, a promise."We're going to go to the United States and we're going to get you a bike," the 19-year-old said she told him.The promise of the bike for her brother and stability for her entire family of five, Andre said, kept them focused on their plan to travel from their home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Cole Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting, conceded to remain detained pending further legal proceedings in his case, his attorney said at his detention hearing on Thursday.Allen, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, appeared calm and did not speak during the hearing.Allen, 31, faces three felony counts of attempted assassination of the President of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition over state lines […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- A Louisiana sheriff has been indicted on over two dozen felony counts following a brazen jailbreak last year that saw 10 inmates escape from a New Orleans detention center, officials announced Wednesday.A special grand jury indicted Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson on 30 felony counts, according to the Louisiana Attorney General's office.Bianka Brown, the chief financial officer for the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, was also indicted on 20 felony […]

A man named Cole Allen, who appears to be the same person as the suspect in the shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., April 25, 2026, is interviewed by KABC in Los Angeles in March 2017. (KABC) (WASHINGTON) -- Cole Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting, conceded to remain detained pending further legal proceedings in his case, his attorney said at […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The shootings in December that targeted Brown University and an MIT professor were "symbolic in nature," according to a report released by the FBI.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national and a legal permanent resident who had been living in Miami, Florida, committed a mass shooting at a building on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, before driving north to Brookline, Massachusetts, to kill an MIT professor, authorities said.Two […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Americans oppose President Donald Trump tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, oppose a 250-foot arch by an even wider margin and oppose the addition of Trump’s signature to paper currency by more than 5-to-1, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.Trump’s ballroomThe Trump administration announced the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in July […]

(NEW YORK) -- The White House's new policy for preserving presidential records risks allowing the Trump administration to "unlawfully destroy important records," a group of Senate Democrats warned in a letter to the White House Counsel on Wednesday.Thirteen Senate Democrats are seeking assurances from the White House that it would continue to preserve presidential records, saying they had grown "deeply concerned" with recent steps the Trump administration had taken to […]