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Weather map. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- A dangerous heat wave is bringing prolonged extreme heat to the Midwest and the East Coast this week.The extreme heat hits the Midwest first. On Monday, the heat index -- what temperature it feels like -- is forecast to soar to around 105 degrees in Minneapolis and over 100 degrees in Chicago.By Tuesday, the feels-like temperature in Chicago will be closer to 105 degrees. Indianapolis […]

(NEW YORK) -- Alex Murdaugh is back in court on Monday for the first time since the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned his double murder conviction over “shocking jury interference.”Newly assigned Judge Debra McCaslin is set to hold a status conference to determine a schedule for a new trial as well as resolve some evidentiary issues.  The status conference comes more than three years after a South Carolina jury found […]

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, investigate a triple homicide on Saturday, June 28, 2026. (Jackson Police Department) (JACKSON, Miss) -- Police in Mississippi are searching for a suspect after two woman and a toddler were shot and killed on Saturday.The women, aged 26 and 20, were found dead alongside a 2-year-old, Jackson Police Department Chief RaShall Brackney told reporters early on Sunday.Police had responded to a call for an aggravated assault […]

(NEW YORK) -- A woman was killed on Sunday in Tennessee as she attempted to rescue her son, who had been swept away in high waters, a local sheriff's office said, as a flash flood threat was in effect for parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, where four other deaths were recorded.The Grainger County Sheriff's Department in Tennessee said Mary Evelyn Nicole Manning-Kellione, 39, was killed on Sunday after she went […]

Stock photo of an alligator in the water. (Sushisu/Getty Images) A woman was killed by an alligator while swimming in a river in Florida, officials said.The victim was in the Econlockhatchee River in Seminole County, just north of Orlando, on Sunday when she was attacked, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries, the FWC said.Efforts to trap […]

E. Jean Carroll leaves the courthosue on September 6, 2024 in New York City. Both parties appear in court today as Trump's lawyers fight to overturn the jury's finding that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. (Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court has denied President Donald Trump's appeal of the $5 million jury finding in the 2022 defamation case brought against him by the writer E. […]

Luigi Mangione appears at an evidence suppression hearing at Manhattan Supreme Court on May 18, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Accused killer Luigi Mangione is due back in Manhattan federal court Monday after talks to resolve his case with a guilty plea stopped without a deal.Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty to federal charges he stalked UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before shooting […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- As several wildfires burn across the West, parts of the Four Corners region will once again see an extremely critical fire weather danger which could help current or new fires rapidly grow and become more dangerous.The largest wildfire in Utah, the Cottonwood Fire, has burned more than 71,000 acres and remains 0% contained. Meanwhile, the Iron Fire has burned more than 40,000 acres and is 38% contained, […]

Undated photo of a bison in Yellowstone National Park. (Yellowstone National Park) (NEW YORK) -- A child visiting Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming was injured by a bison on Friday, according to park officials.The incident occurred at approximately 9:15 a.m. local time near Mud Volcano, just north of Fishing Bridge.The 12-year-old visitor was transported by emergency medical personnel to a nearby hospital, according to a release from Yellowstone National Park, […]