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(CALIFORNIA) -- Voices were full of panic when 911 operators began answering the urgent calls for help that started flowing into the emergency line on the evening of Jan. 7."There's houses on fire. There's no [expletive] anybody here," one caller told the woman answering for the Sierra Madre Police Department in the suburbs of Los Angeles County. The caller was begging for firefighters. "Get them here now!"The caller had spotted […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, told State Department staff on Tuesday night that he is stepping away from his role at USAID and returning to his previous role at the State Department, according to an email obtained by ABC News."It's been my honor to assist Secretary Rubio in his leadership of USAID through some difficult stages to pivot this enterprise […]

ABC News Federal authorities responded to the CIA headquarters in Virginia on Wednesday after a man brandished what appeared to be a handgun outside the building, sources told ABC News.At one point, the man pointed a gun at his head, and local police and security personnel were negotiating, according to the sources.The man was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after several hours in the "barricade incident," police said."The barricade incident […]

(NEW YORK) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi called the recent spate of arson attacks and vandalism against Tesla vehicles "nothing short of domestic terrorism" and promised harsh punishments for perpetrators if they are caught.The White House also weighed in on the recent attacks Wednesday, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calling the vandalisms "despicable.""Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and of electric vehicles until Elon Musk decided to vote for Donald […]

(WATERBURY, Conn.) -- A crowdfunding effort has raised over $100,000 for a Connecticut man who was held captive for over 20 years in his home.His stepmother was arrested last week for allegedly holding her "severely emaciated" stepson in captivity since he was 11 years old.The now-32-year-old man suffered prolonged abuse, starvation, severe neglect and inhumane treatment, according to police. He had not received basic medical and dental care and an […]

(NORMAN, Okla.) -- Winds of up to 75 mph were fanning multiple fast-moving Oklahoma wildfires on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation orders for towns in the path of the flames, officials said.Firefighters are battling blazes in Logan, Pawnee, Beckham and Roger Mills counties, including one about seven miles northwest of Sweetwater, near the Oklahoma-Texas border, officials said.Residents of Meridian were ordered to evacuate early Wednesday as a fire came within two miles of […]

(BLOOMINGTON, Minn.) -- A Minnesota Republican state senator was arrested on Monday for soliciting a minor, according to the Bloomington Police Department.Justin David Eichorn, the Republican state senator for District 6, believed he was communicating online with a 17-year-old girl, but in reality was talking to a police officer, officials said in a statement on Tuesday.After the detective arranged to meet with Eichorn on Monday in Bloomington, Minnesota, the 40-year-old […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A day after a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to provide details about two deportation flights to El Salvador over the weekend, the Trump administration is escalating its legal battle against him.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens under the Alien Enemies Act and ordered that they turn around two flights the administration said were deporting migrant gang members to El Salvador.After […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump's attempt to ban transgender people from military service continues an unfortunate history of the armed services excluding marginalized people from the "privilege of serving," a federal judge wrote Tuesday night.In a 79-page decision, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Trump administration from enacting the policy and offered a scathing rebuke of the Pentagon's development of the policy."The Court's opinion is long, but its premise is simple. […]