FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials say the wildfires that erupted on the Hawaii island of Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. The blazes spread rapidly due to very dry conditions stemming from a drought combined with powerful winds. Much […]
Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Prosecutors for newly minted special counsel David Weiss pushed back on Hunter Biden’s assertion that they “reneged” on an ill-fated plea deal, according to a court document filed on Tuesday in which they also disputed defense counsel’s claim that the diversion agreement on […]
Newport News Police Department (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first-grade teacher during class in Newport News, Virginia, in January has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in connection with the shooting. Deja Taylor was indicted in April for felony child neglect […]
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — After a two-and-a-half-year probe, a Fulton County grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. It marks the fourth indictment of the former president, who […]
Stella/Getty Images (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The Arkansas Department of Education has removed the AP African American Studies course from its schools in what the state’s professional organization of educators called a “last-minute” decision. The Arkansas Education Association told ABC News the move came “at 4:02 on Friday before schools […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (FORT PIERCE, Fla.) — Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate who is facing his first charges in special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents probe, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the charges brought by Smith in a superseding indictment last month. […]
atbaei/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused the death of a 3-year-old girl who was traveling on a Texas-funded bus transporting asylum seekers to Chicago on Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results from Friday proved inconclusive, Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon said. “The Marion Co. Coroner’s Office is […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As an upstart chief prosecutor in perhaps the most prestigious legal office in the country, Rudy Giuliani in the mid-1980s made use of a novel way to quell the scourge of New York organized crime — leveraging a brand new, little-known federal statute called Racketeer […]
August Frank-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors in the case against murder suspect Bryan Kohberger said his defense team was trying to “grind the litigation” to a “halt” with flimsy arguments and attempting to “buy more time” to challenge his indictment. Defense attorneys for Kohberger, a one-time doctoral candidate accused […]
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — After a two-and-a-half-year probe, a Fulton County grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. It marks the fourth indictment of the former president, who […]
