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(CHICAGO) -- Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum testified Wednesday that he had no role in the decision to release his government-issued vehicle after it was involved in a collision that led to him shooting a woman on Chicago’s southwest side last month.“I was told to pick it up, [so] I picked it up,” Exum said, adding that he believed the vehicle had no remaining evidentiary value after it was […]

(VIRGINIA) -- A Virginia jury found that an assistant principal acted with gross negligence when a then-6-year-old student shot his first grade teacher in a lawsuit filed over the 2023 shooting.The jury awarded the teacher, Abby Zwerner, $10 million in damages, with award interest beginning on June 1, 2024.The verdict comes after the jury began deliberations Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile civil case.Zwerner was shot in January 2023 in her […]

(NEW YORK) -- One of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year will create auroras in a large swath of the northern continental U.S., possibly even as far south as Oregon and Illinois.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center is tracking four "notable" coronal mass ejections [CME] -- a sudden eruption of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's corona -- that occurred between Monday and Wednesday.At […]

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Nine people remain missing after a UPS plane departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky on Tuesday crashed in a ball of flames, killing at least 12 people. Officials continue to search through half a mile of "charred, mangled" debris to find any additional victims, authorities said."It's been a long 36 hours of tragedy," Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said at a press conference on Thursday.UPS Flight […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered a lower court to take another look at whether President Donald Trump's criminal hush money prosecution in Manhattan deserved to be heard in federal court.After Trump was convicted last year on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, he sought to move the case into federal court from state court due to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling […]

(NEW YORK)- -- A father's lawsuit against the online gaming platform Roblox will remain in the public eye after a California judge denied the company's attempt to force the dispute into a private resolution process.While the ruling issued last week by California Superior Court Judge Nina Shapirshteyn applies only to one case in San Mateo County, attorneys representing dozens of families view the ruling as a legal precedent that opens […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two New Jersey teenagers have been arrested in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in Michigan that the FBI announced it had thwarted last week, law enforcement sources told ABC News.The NYPD and FBI-Newark arrested Tomas Kaan Guzel, 19, before he could board a flight to Istanbul, the sources said.A second 19-year-old, Milo Sedanet, was also arrested, according to sources.Two other men, Mohmed Ali and Majed […]

FBI and Border Patrol officers speak with Sean Charles Dunn, after he allegedly assaulted law enforcement with a sandwich, along the U Street corridor during a federal law enforcement deployment to the nation's capital on Aug. 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- The man accused of throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent in Washington, D.C., waived his right to testify in […]

(CHICAGO) -- A federal judge is set to hear arguments Wednesday and is weighing extending restrictions on the use of force by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area.Attorneys representing journalists, clergymen and protesters who say they’ve been harmed by federal immigration agents during lawful protests are expected to show images and call on witnesses they say prove the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and […]