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Volunteers with Samaritan's Purse search for meaningful personal items for members of the Alvarado family in the rubble of their home which burned in the Eaton Fire on February 05, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) -- An arrest has been made in connection with the Palisades Fire, which caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year, the Department of Justice […]

(PUTNAM COUNTY, Ind.) -- An Indiana woman was reported missing last week following a "suspicious" fire in her house, authorities said. Britney Gard, 46, last had contact with her family the evening of Sept. 30, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. She is considered a missing endangered person "due to her unknown whereabouts," the sheriff's office said.Authorities responded to her home on Oct. 1, following a 911 call for a fire […]

Volunteers with Samaritan's Purse search for meaningful personal items for members of the Alvarado family in the rubble of their home which burned in the Eaton Fire on February 05, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) -- An arrest has been made in connection with the Palisades Fire, which caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year, sources close to the […]

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump is ramping up a war of words with the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, suggesting in a social media post on Wednesday that they "should be in jail" for refusing to protect ICE agents.Trump's social media post came as Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Monday night and were preparing to be deployed in Chicago."Illinois will not let the […]

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (BROWN COUNTY, Ind.) -- A K-9 unit with the Brown County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana located two missing 11-year-old kids who became separated from their mother and were lost in the woods, police said.First responders were dispatched to the area of Sundance Lake in Hoosier National Forest at approximately 5:48 p.m. on Sunday afternoon after they received a report that two 11-year-old children “became separated […]

Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Members of the Texas National Guard have been seen at an Army Reserve Training Center in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, ABC News has learned.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday shared a photo on social media showing what he called the state's "elite" National Guard boarding a plane, but he did not say where they were headed.Groups of soldiers […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Federal prosecutors investigating former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly making false statements to Congress determined that a central witness in their probe would prove "problematic" and likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury, sources familiar with their findings told ABC News.Daniel Richman -- a law professor who prosecutors allege Comey authorized to leak information to the press -- told investigators that the former FBI […]

(CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.) -- From the deck his father built by hand, Eric Halfen watches strangers comb through the artifacts of his life. The auctioneer’s chant ricochets across the yard, where everything from board games and mugs to the family’s home itself is being sold.Eric grew up in this home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. His father, Terry Halfen, poured the cement for the foundation and laid the bricks one by […]

Tropical Storm Jerry - Satellite Map ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A new tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, but it will likely follow the pattern of other storms that have stayed mostly out to sea, forecasts show.Tropical Storm Jerry formed in the central Atlantic late Tuesday morning and is expected to gradually strengthen as it moves west-northeast over the next few days, according to the National Hurricane […]