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Travis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) -- Special counsel Jack Smith's opening brief appealing the dismissal of former President Donald Trump's classified documents case is due on Aug. 27, according to a briefing notice Thursday from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.Smith last week filed an official notice of appeal after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, in a surprise decision, dismissed Trump's classified documents case.Cannon dismissed […]

(UVALDE, Texas) -- A former Uvalde, Texas, school district police officer pleaded not guilty to the 29 counts against him on Thursday as families of the Robb Elementary School victims looked on.Two teachers and 19 students were killed in the May 24, 2022, mass shooting. Law enforcement waited some 77 minutes at the scene before breaching a classroom and killing the gunman.Former Uvalde school district police officer Adrian Gonzales faces […]

Dutch Family (NEW YORK) -- One of the two men shot and injured in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has been released from the hospital, officials said.David Dutch, 57, was discharged on Wednesday, Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh said.Dutch was shot in the chest and liver and was initially in a medically induced coma after the shooting, according to the Marine Corps League of Pennsylvania.Dutch is a […]

(NEW YORK) -- The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on stage at a speaking event in upstate New York in 2022 now faces federal terrorism charges, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was indicted by a grand jury on three counts, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and providing material support to terrorists. The indictment alleges that […]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) -- Several people were taken to the hospital after an escalator caught fire at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey told ABC News.The small fire in Concourse C sent smoke billowing through the airport's Terminal 8 at about 7 a.m.Nine people received minor injuries due to smoke inhalation, four of whom […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Border Patrol has made fewer than 1,800 apprehensions per day over the past week, a major decline following the implementation of new asylum restrictions that significantly cut humanitarian protections for those who cross the border illegally.Migrant encounters along the southern border are down 55% since the restrictions took effect seven weeks ago, according to new data from the Department of Homeland Security.The Border Patrol made 83,536 […]

(NEW YORK) -- A 70-year-old man is in "good spirits" after being found nearly a week after going missing while on an off-road trail in California, authorities said Wednesday.Warren Elliott got lost after walking away from his group while on the Rubicon Trail in Placer County Friday afternoon, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office.Following a dayslong search in tough terrain, Elliott was found "safe and uninjured" Wednesday morning at […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Connecticut woman was found dead at her home on Wednesday, hours before she was scheduled to be sentenced for killing her husband.Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March in the 2017 death of her husband, 84-year-old Pierluigi Bigazzi, according to the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice. Police found the University of Connecticut Health doctor and professor dead in the basement of the couple's […]

(NEW YORK) -- In early July, a man wearing a gator face mask, sunglasses, and camera equipment attached to a vest walked into the elections building in King County, Washington, and began to take videos and photos of the employees and their surroundings.The man, according to a video obtained by ABC News, approached a counter and began harassing the election workers as he recorded them with his equipment.After he left, […]