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ABC (NEW YORK) -- The jury has begun deliberating in the subway chokehold death trial of Daniel Penny.The jury -- comprised of seven women and five men -- is considering whether to convict Penny of manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, on a New York City subway train.To convict, prosecutors have told the jury that Penny's use of lethal force must be […]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Labor is proposing a rule that will eliminate the certificates that allow employers to pay some workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, which stands at $7.25 an hour.The department announced the change on Tuesday, which also marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.“One of the guiding principles of the American workplace is that a hard day’s work […]

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (MORRIS COUNTY, N.J.) -- The FBI is investigating after large drones were spotted flying over central New Jersey over the last two weeks.The "cluster of what look to be drones and a possible fixed wing aircraft" have been recently sighted along the Raritan River, the FBI said.Larger than the typical drones used by hobbyists, the devices have raised questions due to their proximity to both […]

Shenghua Wen was allegedly moving items to North Korea by concealing them in shipping containers; FBI (LONG BEACH, Calif.) -- An undocumented Chinese national living in the U.S. has been charged with procuring and shipping guns, ammunition and electronics to North Korea, according to federal prosecutors.Prosecutors say Shenghua Wen was allegedly moving items to North Korea by concealing them in shipping containers from Long Beach, California, through Hong Kong and […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) -- Two days after President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon to his son Hunter Biden, the younger Biden's federal gun case in Delaware was terminated Tuesday by the judge overseeing the case."In the absence of binding precedent" for a case that had yet to reach sentencing, "all proceedings in this case are hereby terminated," U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika wrote in a […]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) A U.S. Secret Service agent fired shots near the home of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen early Tuesday morning after a confrontation with occupants in a vehicle near her residence.At about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, an agent working in the vicinity of Yellen's home "observed a sedan with multiple occupants who were attempting to open car doors along the street," the Secret Service said in a […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A wintry blast is slamming the Great Lakes region with 3 to 5.5 feet of snow -- and more lake effect snow is in the forecast for later this week.Monday's intense lake effect snow band from Lake Michigan brought 7.5 inches of snow and whiteout conditions near Hartford in western Michigan, where a pileup closed Interstate 94 in both directions.About 14 passenger vehicles and three […]

(NEW YORK) -- One person was killed and six firefighters were injured after a multi-alarm fire broke out in an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Monday.The fire started around 7:15 p.m. at a six-story residential building located between York and East End avenues on 82nd Street, according to a statement from fire officials.When FDNY crews arrived to the scene, they reported heavy fire on the […]

Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) -- Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaiian woman who has been missing for weeks, walked freely into Mexico just after noon on Nov. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department said on Monday.The department said the case has been recategorized as a "voluntary missing persons" one and has been closed. Detectives said they believe she wanted to disappear.The update comes after weeks of claims […]