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(PHILADELPHIA) -- A medical transport plane, carrying a child, her mother and four other people, crashed in Philadelphia Friday night near a busy mall, killing all aboard and resulting in an untold number of injuries on the ground.The Learjet 55 crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia around 6:30 p.m. after departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, according to authorities.The exact number of the injured is not yet available, officials […]

(PHILADELPHIA) -- A small plane crashed in Philadephia on Friday, officials said, with a fiery explosion observed upon impact.The incident occurred near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia.The Learjet 55 crashed around 6:30 p.m. after departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.A large fire burned in the wake of the crash, prompting a large response. Vehicles could also be seen on fire.There were two people on […]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A group of immigrant advocacy centers and nonprofits has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for shutting down legal orientation programs for immigrants, including people detained at ICE detention facilities.The lawsuit was filed a week after the Department of Justice told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work […]

(WASHINGTON) -- When the Office of Management and Budget issued a sweeping order this week freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, senior White House officials had not reviewed it beforehand, according to sources familiar with the matter.The order was rescinded following legal challenges and intense backlash amid widespread confusion and disruptions to critical services like Medicaid.And now, amid the fallout, finger pointing has begun inside the administration, sources said, with the […]

LAPD (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- Police in Los Angeles said they are looking for a man who stabbed a woman while she was walking down a street and then fled.The Los Angeles Police Department this week released surveillance footage that captured the disturbing attack as they attempt to identify the suspect.The incident occurred midday on Jan. 18 in the area of Santa Monica Boulevard and Edgemont Street in East Hollywood, according to […]

Alexander Drago, Pool via AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Mayor Eric Adams's criminal defense attorney was at Justice Department headquarters in Washington on Friday to discuss the future of the mayor's criminal bribery case, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Adams' attorney Alex Spiro attended the meeting along with federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, including acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and acting chief of the […]

(CALIFORNIA) -- A California man has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison for operating a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft during the early days of the Palisades Fire, prosecutors announced Friday.Peter Akemann, 56, of Culver City, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft for the Jan. 9 drone collision, which […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News.The directive instructs web managers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to the emails.In an email sent Thursday, USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee detailed […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009.The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces. The flight -- which had departed from Wichita, Kansas -- was approaching Reagan National Airport at the time of the collision, officials said. There were no survivors in the […]