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Controversial state-run court system in Mississippi faces ongoing court battles

Controversial state-run court system in Mississippi faces ongoing court battles

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge decided on Dec. 31 that Mississippi can move forward in creating a state-run court system of unelected judges and prosecutors to preside over part of the majority-Black city of Jackson. However, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals separately temporarily blocked […]

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Lewiston comes together to help families, Deaf community heal from tragedy

Lewiston comes together to help families, Deaf community heal from tragedy

Liz Seal speaks with ABC News Live. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — This holiday season was tough for Liz Seal and her four children. On Oct. 25, 2023, her husband Josh was one of 18 people killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. More than two months since the […]

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Migrant encounters along southwest border reach all-time high of 302,000

Migrant encounters along southwest border reach all-time high of 302,000

Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — There were 302,000 encounters along the southwest border in December, marking the highest monthly total ever recorded, sources told ABC News. Sources stressed the numbers are preliminary and could change. The numbers — a hot-button election year topic — come as the Justice Department […]

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Chelsea Manning speaks of solitary confinement during New Year’s Day poetry event

Chelsea Manning speaks of solitary confinement during New Year’s Day poetry event

William Hutchinson/ABC News (NEW YORK) — Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence officer sentenced to military prison for one of the biggest classified material leaks in U.S. history, spoke out during a New Year’s Day performance at a poetry event in New York City about the year she spent in […]

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Couple welcomes twins born on two different days and years

Couple welcomes twins born on two different days and years

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It was a birthday to remember for one New Jersey father this weekend. Billy Humphrey, who turned 36 on Sunday, and his wife Eve Humphrey, both of Merchantville, New Jersey, welcomed twin sons on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. “I […]

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Rare earthquake rattles Queens, Roosevelt Island

Rare earthquake rattles Queens, Roosevelt Island

Gary S Chapman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Residents of Queens were awakened by a rare earthquake in New York City on Tuesday morning. A magnitude 1.7 earthquake shook the borough of Queens, centered in the neighborhood of Astoria, at about 5:45 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was […]

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Wrong-way driver injures 7 pedestrians, one officer in New Year’s Day police chase

Wrong-way driver injures 7 pedestrians, one officer in New Year’s Day police chase

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A driver fleeing an early New Year’s Day dispute struck seven pedestrians and injured one police officer before crashing on a New York City sidewalk in midtown Manhattan, according to police. The driver, Mohamed Alaouie, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, was charged with three counts of […]

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Two cross-country storms forecast to start the new year

Two cross-country storms forecast to start the new year

Snow Storm CREDIT: Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Residents across the U.S. are bracing for multiple powerful storms forecast to impact a large swath of the country with heavy rain and snow. The systems will bring high surf to much of the West Coast before they trek […]

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Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation

Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” she said in a lengthy letter to […]

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No evidence of terrorism found yet in deadly New Year’s crash near Rochester, New York, concert venue

No evidence of terrorism found yet in deadly New Year’s crash near Rochester, New York, concert venue

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The driver suspected of causing a fiery fatal crash outside a concert venue in upstate New York early New Year’s Day was identified on Tuesday, however, officials added they have not yet found any nexus to terrorism after multiple canisters full of gasoline were […]

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