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An 11-month-old boy who had been taken by his father was rescued after being buried alive in a dog crate following an urgent search, authorities in South Carolina said.The baby, Koah Sharpe, was found Tuesday afternoon "clinging to life," after spending what is believed to have been 24 hours buried, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon.The boy was found wrapped in a towel in the crate, shallowly buried under […]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images A group of Democratic lawmakers is seeking information from the Trump administration after an 8-year-old Haitian boy was taken into government custody last week.In a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers asked what steps are being taken to reunite the child with his family."Video footage appears to show the use of restraints on a child […]

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against rideshare company Lyft, accusing it of discriminating against passengers with disabilities by repeatedly denying rides, charging improper fees and failing to make accommodations.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday, accused Lyft of denying service to "hundreds, likely thousands," of individuals with disabilities who travel with service animals or who use wheelchairs or other […]

In a report summarizing the conclusions of its 15-month Jeffrey Epstein probe, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee rebuked the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein case and recommended that the department renew its investigation of Epstein's associates. The 136-page report blamed the failures by federal prosecutors on "poor judgment" and "Epstein's pervasive and wide-reaching influence," and criticized the DOJ for failing to prevent the convicted sex offender's crimes through a controversial […]

A man dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army is accused of falsely casting himself as a decorated combat veteran and stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a veterans organization, prosecutors in New York said on the eve of Veterans Day as they announced criminal charges.David Agtsteribbe, 58, of Hampton Bays, is accused of receiving benefits and stealing money from an American Legion post on Long Island by falsely portraying […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed an effort to impeach him as "political spectacle," saying the resolution "puts a target on the backs" of U.S. troops and signals to America's enemies that Congress will "punish its own warriors and its own civilian leadership for successfully executing lawful military operations.""What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven […]

Days before a former undergraduate student now known as Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit alleging a fraternity house gang rape, Cornell University was negotiating a way for the fraternity to return to campus in a matter of years, documents obtained by ABC News show.Cornell said the fraternity, Chi Phi, could return to campus as soon as 2030 if it admitted to certain violations of the university's student code of […]

Officials at the University of Mississippi are investigating a video showing three white women outside a Black student's apartment Friday evening, with two of them allegedly making racist noises and gestures captured on Ring camera footage."[T]he incident is being actively investigated by the appropriate university offices," Vice Chancellor Shawnboda Mead said in a statement Monday, in part, adding, "our staff have reached out to the students directly impacted to offer […]

A "suspected homicide" is under investigation on board a cruise ship that docked in Texas, the FBI said Monday.The incident occurred on board an MSC Seascape cruise ship that docked in Galveston on Monday, according to the FBI's Houston field office.The suspect, 48-year-old Jason Watford of Tyler, Texas, is now in custody in connection with the alleged homicide. Watford has been booked into the Galveston County Jail and is on […]