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(NEW YORK) -- Police appear to be closing in on the identity of the man suspected of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan, sources told ABC News.Authorities on Thursday released images of the suspect taken from a surveillance camera at the HI New York City Hostel at West 103rd Street on the Upper West Side, where it appears the suspect shared a room with two other men, […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Two kindergarteners -- a 5-year-old boy and a 6-year-old boy -- are in "critical but stable condition" on Thursday after they were shot a day earlier at their small Christian grammar school in Northern California, authorities said.The suspected gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after entering the school and opening fire on the students Wednesday, according to Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea.Butte County authorities responded […]

Normand Blouin/EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- An arctic front and snow squalls will impact the Northeast and Midwest on Thursday.In Erie, Pennsylvania, a blizzard warning is in effect until 1 a.m. EST on Saturday.Snow accumulations of 10 to 18 inches are expected north of Interstate 90 (I-90) and 12 to 20 inches south of I-90. In addition, wind gusts are up to 60 mph north of I-90 and 50 mph […]

ABC (NEW YORK) -- The jury has requested to receive two readbacks and several pieces of footage as they continue to deliberate in the subway chokehold death trial of Daniel Penny.Little more than an hour into deliberations on Tuesday, the jury asked for a readback of a portion of the judge's instructions on the law. The jury is interested in the part about justified use of force.They also asked for several pieces […]

(NEW YORK) -- Police appear to be closing in on an identity of the man suspected of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan, sources told ABC News on Thursday.Police have sought a search warrant for a location in New York City where they believe the suspect may have been staying, sources said.The masked gunman shot Thompson several times at close range on Wednesday morning outside a Hilton […]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A man has sustained serious injuries after leaping to the rescue of his wife who was ambushed by a polar bear in an early morning attack, police said.Members of the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service working out of the Fort Severn First Nation detachment in Ontario, Canada, were dispatched to a residential address in the early morning hours of Tuesday to reports of gunfire, according to […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Two kindergarteners were seriously wounded in a shooting at a small Christian grammar school in Northern California on Wednesday, authorities said.After entering the school and opening fire on the students, the suspected gunman died from what is believed by officials to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Two boys, ages 5 and 6, were promptly taken to a hospital and were in "extremely critical condition" as of Wednesday evening, […]

(NEW YORK) -- Svetlana Dali, the woman who stowed away on a Delta Air Lines flight to France, was arrested by the FBI upon her return to New York, an official confirmed.She returned to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday, once again flying Delta, but this time escorted by U.S. law enforcement, according to the Transportation Security Administration.The TSA confirmed that its inspectors, along with other law enforcement officials, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials suspect that a recently discovered Chinese hacking and espionage campaign scooped up data on hundreds of thousands of American mobile phone users, likely stealing information about more than 1 million customers, ABC News has learned.Sources familiar with the investigation gave ABC News a detailed sense of the vast scope of what U.S. officials are calling a major intelligence gathering operation by China, exploiting weaknesses in the […]