ABC News (NEW YORK) — In 2015, three men, all current or former Florida correctional officers, were arrested after investigators revealed they were Ku Klux Klan members plotting to kill a Black former inmate. Now, “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK,” a new documentary and first-time collaboration between ABC News and […]
ABC (NEW YORK) — A large and “extremely dangerous” tornado was confirmed in Florida Thursday amid a severe weather threat across much of the state. The tornado was located nine miles south of Greensboro at 4:09 p.m. ET, moving northeast at 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The […]
Google Maps (PITTSBURGH, Penn.) — A school district in Pennsylvania is proposing starting classes later in the morning to improve the physical health and mental well-being of students. Upper St. Clair School District — a suburb of Pittsburgh — would change the start times of its high schools, elementary schools […]
CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it has suspended its search for a cruise ship passenger from Australia who went overboard a few hundred miles off the coast of Hawaii. The incident occurred at approximately 11:03 p.m. Tuesday night, when the Joint Rescue Coordination Center […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (FORT LEE, Va.) — Fort Lee, a U.S. Army post named after the leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War, was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in honor of two Black U.S. Army trailblazers during a redesignation ceremony Thursday. “I hope that this community will look with pride […]
Lake County Sheriff’s Office (ANTIOCH TOWNSHIP, Ill.) — An Illinois man using a leaf blower on his property was shot and killed by his own neighbor this month, becoming the latest in a string of high-profile shooting victims targeted while doing everyday tasks. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, […]
Hinds County Sheriff’s Office (SPRING VALLEY, Miss.) — A detainee who escaped from a Mississippi jail along with three other men nearly a week ago has been detained in Texas, authorities said Thursday. The breach occurred at the Raymond Detention Center Saturday night, when four detainees escaped through the roof […]
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A teenager has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Black transgender woman in Atlanta, police said. Officers responded to reports of a woman suffering from a gunshot wound at a shopping plaza on April 18. The victim was pronounced dead at […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department filed a complaint to challenge a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth, arguing the law violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The department is asking a U.S district court to issue an order to prevent […]
Obtained by ABC News (WORCESTER, Mass.) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts airman accused of leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, is asking a magistrate judge to release him from pretrial detention, though prosecutors allege the 21-year-old is a flight risk and, if released on bail, say he could “further disseminate […]
