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ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The first major heat wave of the summer will bring another day of dangerously high temperatures to the East Coast on Wednesday before relief moves in.The oppressive heat shattered records across the Northeast on Tuesday. New York City and Philadelphia hit 99 degrees, breaking the city's daily record highs. Baltimore and Newark, New Jersey, soared to 104 degrees and 101 degrees, respectively, also setting new daily records.On […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to consider Emil Bove for a federal judgeship began Wednesday with the committee's ranking Democratic member listing a number of controversial moves Bove has made as a top Justice Department official.President Donald Trump last month tapped Bove, his former defense attorney who took aggressive moves to enforce Trump's political agenda at the DOJ in the early months of his presidency, for a judgeship […]

(MOSCOW, Idaho) -- The woman who said she will offer key eyewitness testimony in Bryan Kohberger's upcoming capital murder trial repeated that claim at least four times, to three different officers, after she was pulled over last year, according to police footage obtained by ABC News.The body camera and dashcam footage, along with a police report from the unrelated September 2024 incident were released last weekend by police in Pullman, […]

(NEW YORK) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is back in the U.S. after being mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, is set to appear in court in Tennessee on Wednesday for a hearing to address the conditions of his release after a magistrate judge ordered that he should not be detained while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges.However, he is not expected to go free because […]

(Merritt Island, Fla.) -- After several postponed launches, Axiom Space's four private astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station (ISS).The multinational crew lifted off successfully aboard a SpaceX Dragon launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Florida early Wednesday at 2:31 a.m. EDT. The Dragon will dock with the ISS at approximately 7 a.m. EDT on Thursday.In the […]

(PALM SPRINGS, Calif.) -- The man charged earlier this month with conspiring to assist the suspected California fertility clinic bomber has died in federal custody, according to a statement from the Bureau of Prisons.Daniel Park was found unresponsive on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, the federal law enforcement agency said."Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested while life-saving efforts continued," the statement […]

(NEW YORK) -- A life-threatening heat wave has enveloped the East Coast, hitting cities with the worst of the high temperatures on Tuesday before relief moves in later in the week.This is the first major heat wave of the season, with extreme heat warnings and heat advisories in effect for over 150 million Americans from Texas to Maine, including the entire Interstate 95 corridor.Extreme heat warnings are in effect across the Northeast, […]

(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) -- Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period that scientists call Swaindelphys, according to a paper published last week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.The prehistoric species, called Swaindelphys solastella, was "gigantic" compared to other Swaindelphys at […]

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The FBI is planning to reallocate potentially thousands of agents away from immigration enforcement to focus on cyber threats and counterterrorism efforts, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Tuesday.The shift in resources was prompted in part by the U.S. strikes in Iran over the weekend, the sources said.The FBI has discussed shifting at least a couple thousand agents away from immigration work to help protect against […]