Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A cryptocurrency linked to former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn has caught the attention of federal prosecutors in New York, who have started looking into it, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. News of […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ALTOS, Calif.) — A student suffered a minor head injury after a redwood tree fell on an elementary school in the San Francisco Bay area on Tuesday, school officials said, as the latest atmospheric river brings severe weather to California. The redwood tree fell around 12:30 p.m. […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles prosecutors announced felony charges Tuesday in connection with a deadly COVID-19 outbreak that occurred at an upscale assisted living facility early in the pandemic. The charges, which include felony elder endangerment, follow a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the outbreak at the Silverado Senior Living […]
Courtesy of Rasheem Carter’s family (LAUREL, Miss.) — Rasheem Carter, a Mississippi Black man who went missing last October after claiming he was being targeted by white men in his community, was found dead and body dismembered shortly after according to a newly released autopsy, and his family is asking for […]
NTSB/Handout – Xinhua via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio is suing Norfolk Southern Railway over last month’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, state Attorney General Dave Yost announced Tuesday. The 58-count complaint, filed in federal court on Tuesday, alleges the railway operator violated various federal and state environmental laws […]
Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A man who has served more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence has been released after the state of Florida reinvestigated the case and determined he did not commit armed robbery. “I can’t put it into […]
NTSB/Handout – Xinhua via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio’s attorney general plans to announce the “next steps toward accountability” following last month’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, his office said. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost will detail the next steps regarding the Norfolk Southern Railway incident during a […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than a foot of snow has already fallen in several regions along the East Coast as a nor’easter bears down on the region. A coastal storm that developed in the Northeast on Monday has now strengthened into a nor’easter, bringing inclement weather over multiple […]
Jim Sugar/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite heavy opposition from environmental activists, a viral TikTok campaign and a campaign promise by President Joe Bien to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels, the federal government greenlighted a controversial oil drilling project on pristine Alaskan land on Monday. That decision won’t […]
Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city […]
