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(NEW YORK) -- For the first time in days, the Northeast was under no red flag warnings, but officials cautioned that fire danger in the region remains high as drought conditions persist.All red flag warnings, which signal critical fire weather conditions like strong winds and low relative humidity, were lifted throughout the Northeast Saturday evening as conditions improved following days of wildfires that broke out across New Jersey, New York, […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A federal appeals court has granted Special Counsel Jack Smith's request to pause his appeal of President-elect Donald Trump's classified documents case until Dec. 2.Smith asked for a delay earlier this week to assess the "unprecedented circumstance" of Trump's election and impending presidential inauguration.The move is part of Smith's winding down of his two cases against Trump -- the classified documents case and the federal […]

(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 43 million people are under red flag warnings across eight states as the fire danger remains elevated in the Northeast.Relative humidity as low as 20% coupled with wind gusts up to 40 mph could help accelerate the spread of any fires.While Sunday brings a slight improvement in fire weather conditions, the overall fire risk will continue into next week across much of the Northeast.There is no […]

(NEW YORK) -- Sean Combs' new application for bail should be denied because the music mogul "poses serious risks of danger and obstruction" to his criminal sex trafficking case, federal prosecutors argued in an overnight court filing.Prosecutors took aim at Combs' activities from behind bars where, they alleged, "the defendant has, among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool; […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump has ambitious plans to utilize U.S. federal lands for the extraction of natural resources.But Trump – who promised at the Republican National Convention in July to "drill, baby, drill" if he were to be reelected – may not be able to accomplish the vast majority of his plans due to existing protections and the way federal lands are defined, environmental law experts told ABC News.Trump […]

Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images, Pool (SANTA ANA, Calif.) -- Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday.Blaze Bernstein -- a 19-year-old gay, Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania -- went missing while visiting his family in Newport Beach during winter break in January 2018. […]

Anita Kot/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) -- A week after cellphone users across the U.S. reported a flurry of racist text messages, members of the Hispanic and LGBTQ communities are now receiving text messages saying they have been selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp, according to a new statement from the FBI.The messages follow reports of African American and Black residents receiving racist texts in the days […]

(FANNIN COUNTY, Ga.) -- A mom in Georgia is speaking out about being arrested for reckless conduct after her then-10-year-old son was found walking alone.Brittany Patterson, 41, was arrested by deputies on Oct. 30 after a witness reported "a juvenile in the roadway" who had gone into and left a nearby Dollar General store, according to a Fannin County Sheriff's Office report.Patterson's son, Soren, now 11, was later found by […]

(NEW YORK) -- The family of Malcolm X, the Black resistance leader who was assassinated in 1965, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, they announced Friday.Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter, who represented her family at a New York City press conference, and her lawyers claim that they have uncovered new evidence that they believe will prove that the NYPD and FBI conspired to kill Malcolm X.“We […]