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The only man ever charged in the notorious Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur insists he is "innocent," being railroaded by authorities and that he only confessed to his purported role in the crime because he was getting paid to lie.In his first interview since being arrested in September 2023, Duane "Keffe D" Davis told ABC News in a jailhouse interview that he should be at home, watching his […]

Lawyers for the man accused of killing four Idaho college students are asking the judge in his capital murder case to ban a key witness from using the phrase "bushy eyebrows" to describe the assailant she saw the night of the bloody attack.That request was included in roughly 100 pages of court filings unsealed Tuesday as preparations continue in advance of the August trial of Bryan Kohberger, who's charged in […]

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Billionaire Elon Musk's political action committee, America PAC, has placed its first-ever nationwide TV ad, a $1 million ad buy that touts President Donald Trump's first few weeks in office following Tuesday's joint address to Congress, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.The 60-second ad will run this week in the Washington, D.C., media market and across the country, the source told ABC […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) --  A former top FEMA official who was removed as part of the political blowback over payments to New York City for housing migrants in what critics called "luxury hotels" has sued the Trump administration, alleging she was "unlawfully terminated from her position" without due process.Mary Comans, who served as the FEMA's chief financial officer since 2017, claims in the suit that her firing led to her being […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two storms are targeting the country, with one bringing heavy rain to the East Coast and blizzard conditions to the Midwest, and the second dropping snow and rain in the West.East Coast stormThe East Coast storm first tore through the South, with at least 10 tornadoes reported from Oklahoma to Florida.The storm is now barreling up the coast, moving through Georgia and South Carolina on Wednesday morning.Later […]

(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Tuesday he has ordered state prosecutors to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the "nowactive criminal investigation" into influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, after they arrived in the state from Romania.The announcement was first posted to X, saying, "Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.The issue lands before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a dispute from Texas over the federal government's authority to allow temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel at privately owned facilities far from reactors.The justices are being asked to reject the arrangement, even though it's far from clear where the highly […]

(FORT KNOX, KY) -- President Donald Trump is casting doubt -- without providing evidence -- over whether much of the nation's store of gold still exists at the famous United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, raising questions about whether somebody "stole" it.What's more, he's said he wants to go to Fort Knox to see for himself.The ultra-secure facility holds approximately 147.3 million ounces of gold, according to the […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (TUKWILA, WA) -- A postal employee was shot and killed at the United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Tukwila, Washington, on Tuesday, according to reports from the Tukwila Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service of Seattle.Officers responded to the scene shortly after 4 p.m. local time and found an adult male with a gunshot wound and "immediately began rendering aid […]