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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHOENIX, AZ) -- A disabled Black man in Arizona faces multiple charges after a pair of Phoenix police officers punched him and shocked him with a stun gun. Tyron McAlpin, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, faces charges of felony assault and resisting arrest.The incident, which took place on Aug. 19, was captured on both surveillance video and police body-worn camera. The officers said they were […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to say if he's been in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left the White House but said it would have been smart if he had."Well, I don't comment on that, but I will tell you that if I did, it's a smart thing," Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait at the Chicago Economic Club. […]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for the first time this cycle, will soon hit the campaign trail with former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to a senior campaign official.The vice presidential nominee will be out with his party's former standard bearers this week and next week in an effort to push for early voting in battleground states, ABC News has exclusively learned.The governor will first rally with […]

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The Pentagon on Tuesday granted honorable discharges to more than 800 veterans who were separated from the U.S. military because of their sexual orientation during the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which was in effect from February 1994 to September 2011.More than 13,000 service members were kicked out under the policy, close to 2,000 of whom received less than fully honorable discharges, according to Christa […]

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images A suspect remains at large after a shooting at a California college critically injured an employee, school police said.The shooting occurred at the Center for Media and Design, a Santa Monica College satellite, in Santa Monica shortly before 10 p.m. local time, school police said.The shooting was "a workplace violence incident, not a random act," Santa Monica College Chief of Police Johnnie Adams said in […]

Two suspects have been arrested in a mass shooting that left one person dead and nine injured near a Tennessee State University homecoming football game event over the weekend, including one alleged shooter who was carrying a high-powered assault-type rifle when he was caught, authorities said.Both men were arrested on charges of murder, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.The suspects in the shooting near the Nashville, Tennessee, college were identified as […]

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Ninety-two people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina in the wake of the "catastrophic disaster" left behind by Hurricane Helene, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday.The number will continue to fluctuate as new reports come in and other reports are resolved, Cooper said.This comes as North Carolina continues to face "a persistent and dangerous flow of misinformation" about recovery efforts, the governor said."If you're participating in spreading […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump has again asked an appeals court to transfer his New York criminal hush money case to federal court, reigniting an effort to stall his sentencing or throw out his conviction on 34 felony courts.In a filing on late Monday, Trump's lawyers asked the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reconsider a lower court's September decision denying the former […]

(ASHE COUNTY, N.C.) -- The sheriff's office in Rutherford County, NC, announced Monday that they'd arrested a man and charged him with allegedly threatening to harm Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers in the area.William Parsons, 44, of Bostic, NC, was charged with "going armed to the terror of the public," according to a statement from the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office provided to ABC News.The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office statement said […]