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ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The storm that brought heavy rain and mountain snow to the West Coast is making the trek across the country to bring a significant snowstorm to the Northeast this weekend.The snow will first hit the upper Midwest on Friday. Up to 8 inches of snow is expected, with cold and blustery weather sticking around through the weekend in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin.On Saturday, that […]

(WASHINGTON) -- As Elon Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency works to reduce government spending by eliminating waste and cutting diversity programs, his SpaceX corporation currently has a multibillion dollar contract to help NASA land the first woman and first person of color on the moon.In 2021, NASA announced that it had awarded a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX to build a spacecraft for long-term human exploration of the moon […]

Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, state officials said Friday.The cases were discovered during routine inspections. All infected flocks will be depopulated, officials said.The state stressed the shutdowns are prudent […]

(NEW YORK) -- During the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Department of Justice announced consent decrees for police reform with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville – court-enforceable agreements born out of probes launched after the 2020 police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.But after officials in the Trump administration issued a memo last month ordering a temporary freeze on ongoing cases being litigated by the DOJ’s […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- Just a little over a month since 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a truck-ramming terror attack on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, the victims and first responders of the rampage will be honored at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, according to the NFL.For the eleventh time, the Super Bowl will be played in the Big Easy, but the normally festive atmosphere will include […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told embassy officials in Guatemala this week that it was "not our intention" to uproot families deployed overseas with USAID, despite the agency issuing a 30-day mandate for their return."I know it's hard to ask for patience. I know it's hard to ask for trust," Rubio said, according to a partial transcript of his meet-and-greet with embassy staff that was obtained by ABC News.Rubio, who was tapped […]

(HOUSTON) -- A man aboard a Frontier Airlines flight en route to Houston had to be restrained by fellow passengers on Wednesday after he began kicking seats and hitting a window, eventually breaking the plexiglass, police said.The flight, F9 4856, departed from Denver and was in the air for about 20 to 30 minutes, when a woman asked the man behind her to switch seats, according to passenger Victoria Clark. […]

(BOSTON) -- As more than two million federal employees face a midnight Thursday deadline to accept the Trump administration's buyout offer, a federal judge in Massachusetts will consider an eleventh-hour request to block the buyout from moving forward.U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. set Thursday afternoon hearing to consider a request by three federal unions to issue a temporary restraining order that would suspend Thursday's deadline for the buyout and require the Office […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Internet-connected cameras made in China are giving the Chinese government the ability to "conduct espionage or disrupt US critical infrastructure," according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by ABC News.The cameras typically lack data encryption and security settings and, by default, communicate with their manufacturer. It's believed there are tens of thousands of Chinese-made cameras on the networks of critical U.S. infrastructure entities, including within the chemical and energy […]