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People walk by the Comcast building which houses NBC Studios in Manhattan on June 29, 2026 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A man is in custody after he allegedly snuck into an NBC building at New York City's Rockefeller Center on Thursday morning, authorities said.The suspect said he was looking for "Today" show weather anchor Al Roker, and he allegedly repeatedly uttered a racial slur, […]

A helicopter airlifts two deputies to the hospital after they were shot on July 16, 2026 in Ruskin, Fla. (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office) (RUSKIN, Fla.) -- Two deputies were airlifted to a Florida hospital Thursday after they were shot in an incident, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.Police are on the scene of the shooting, which took place on West Shell Point Road in Ruskin, Florida, south of Tampa, […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minneapolis' air quality ranked the worst in the world among major cities Thursday due to thick smoke from wildfires burning throughout northern Minnesota and Ontario, Canada.Much of the city's air quality entered the "hazardous" category Wednesday night and remained there into Thursday. Parts of the city reached an air quality index, or AQI, of 460. A hazardous AQI is categorized as 300 and above. The air quality in Detroit also ranked […]

(WASHINGTON) -- When President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few people who knew what he was about to say was allegedly setting himself up to profit from the president's words. Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on that speech and more than a dozen others on the prediction market Kalshi, […]

Law enforcement on the scene of a shooting at a Kroger store in Cypress, Texas, July 15, 2026. (Harris County Constable Precinct 4) (HOUSTON) -- A man is facing charges after allegedly critically wounding another person in a shooting at a Kroger grocery store near Houston, authorities said.Deputies responded to an active shooter report at the Cypress grocery store Wednesday afternoon and quickly apprehended the suspect, 20-year-old Kaden Ausbrooks, as […]

This image released by the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office shows the damage to a home after a Tesla crashed into it, in Katy, Texas, on June 19, 2026. (Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office) (KATY, Texas) -- The driver in a deadly Tesla crash in Texas pressed the accelerator to 100% before colliding into a house, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.On June 19, the driver, Michael Butler, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Joaquin Castro, along with more than 110 Democratic members of Congress, has sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin urging the shutdown of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.The facility, which is the only family detention center in the country, was closed during the Biden administration but was reopened last year as part of the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown. In the letter, which was […]

(NEW YORK) -- Torrential rain through Wednesday into Thursday prompted flash flood emergency warnings for Texas Hill Country as water levels in creeks and rivers rose rapidly.As of Thursday morning, there were two flash flood emergencies ongoing in Texas Hill Country, impacting Kerrville -- the city where the deadly Camp Mystic flooding occurred in July 2025 -- Hunt, Uvalde and Knippa.Evacuations and water rescues were reported in all four areas, […]

An ABC News graphic shows the forecast for Thursday, July 16, 2026. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- Air quality alerts are in place on Thursday across at least 17 states, from Minnesota to New Hampshire to Virginia, as dangerous smoke drifts into the U.S. from Canadian wildfires.Smoke from the more than 180 wildfires burning in Canada is traveling more than a thousand miles to reach places like New York City. […]