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(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that Committee Chairman James Comer bring in acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel to answer questions "immediately" as part of the panel's probe into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Ranking Member Robert Garcia on Tuesday sent Comer a letter, which was first obtained by ABC News, requesting that Blanche and Patel appear for separate videotaped transcribed interviews […]

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (LAS VEGAS) -- A teenage girl has been arrested for allegedly injuring three horses at an equestrian competition, officials said.Officers responded to a barn in Las Vegas early Saturday and found three horses "intentionally injured with a sharp object," Las Vegas police said.A teenage girl was identified as a possible suspect, police said. She allegedly had […]

The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House, home of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- A federal appeals court on Monday concluded that the Trump administration's transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional and "appears to be driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group."In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision blocking the […]

(SHELBY, N.C.) -- A former North Carolina police officer who was seen in a viral doorbell camera video repeatedly punching a woman during an arrest has been charged with assault, authorities said.Former Shelby Police Officer Karson Hyder, 22, turned himself in on Monday, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, which said it has charged him with one count of assault inflicting serious injury in connection with Friday's […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Reserve is weathering a political “stress test” that threatens to undermine public trust in the central bank and damage the United States economy, former Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in recent remarks."Like many other institutions, the Fed has been undergoing a stress test," Powell told an audience at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston on Sunday, adding that “Congress wisely chose to insulate monetary policy decisions […]

(NEW YORK) -- An American cruise ship passenger who has been quarantining at a Nebraska facility after being exposed to hantavirus said he plans to remain there for the full 42 days.Jake Rosmarin, who is from Boston, has been at Nebraska's National Quarantine Unit since May 11. He said staying the full six weeks is the best way to keep his loved ones safe."I have been traumatized by this whole […]

(MOUNT AIRY, N.C.) -- A manhunt for the suspect who allegedly shot two Virginia sheriff's deputies, one fatally, ended Sunday night when law enforcement officers used a drone to zero in and capture him in North Carolina, authorities said.Michael Puckett, 55, was allegedly armed with a handgun and ringing the doorbell of a home in Mount Airy, N.C., when officers moved in at about 8:32 p.m. ET and made the […]

People in Massachusetts reported hearing a loud boom Saturday afternoon, but it's not immediately clear what it was. At approximately that same time, NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite Geostationary Lightning Mapper showed a burst over the Massachusetts coast. (NOAA) (NEW YORK) -- New England residents were rocked Saturday after a fast-moving meteor in the Earth's atmosphere sent a loud boom that was heard in parts of the state.NASA told ABC News […]

: Usha Vance talks reading challenge in exclusive interview (ABCNews.com) (NEW YORK) -- Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States, is rolling out her annual summer reading challenge for its second year in an effort to enhance childhood literacy and curb some of the summer reading loss that comes during the summer months, she told ABC’s Linsey Davis in an exclusive interview.“It is the second one. Last year […]