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Jessica McGowan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Though Jimmy Carter was a U.S. president, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the founder of a global organization, The Carter Center, to his more than one dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren, he was a grandfather first and foremost, his grandson Jason Carter told “Good Morning America.” “He’s an interesting guy, but he really […]
mbbirdy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Homicides across the United States are poised to plummet for the third straight year as 2024 winds down, driving the nation’s annual murder toll down to levels not seen since before the pandemic, according to preliminary data from cities both large and small. Based on available crime statistics from U.S. law enforcement […]
Sylvie Lanteaume via Getty Images (GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA) — The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced that Guantanamo Bay detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi had been repatriated to Tunisia, a transfer that leaves 26 detainees at the U.S. facility in Cuba. Yazidi arrived at Guantanamo Bay the day it opened on Jan. 11, 2002, […]
Police investigate a mass shooting that erupted on June 2, 2024, that left one man dead and 28 people injured at a large street party in Akron, Ohio. (ABC News/WEWS) (NEW YORK) — Homicides across the United States are poised to plummet for the third straight year as 2024 winds down, driving the nation’s annual […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Red flag warnings were issued Monday due to critical fire danger in West Texas, eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma/Kansas/Colorado corner. The combination of warm temperatures, gusty winds and low humidity could produce the potential for dangerous fire conditions across portions of the area. With wind gusts reaching over 60 […]
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has withdrawn from their appeal of the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump’s co-defendants and referred the case to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, according to a court filing Monday afternoon. Smith last month dropped his appeal against […]
STOCK PHOTO/Adobe Stock (WASHINGTON) — The Treasury Department was breached by a China-sponsored actor earlier this month, officials told Congress in a letter on Monday. The “major” breach was achieved by gaining access to a third-party cybersecurity service Treasury used, called BeyondTrust, they said. The actor then accessed Treasury workstations and “certain unclassified documents” on […]
Dublin Police Services, FILE (CALIFORNIA) — The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Northern California woman in a case that became known nationwide as the “Gone Girl” kidnapping has now been charged with other break-ins and assaults from years earlier, prosecutors announced on Monday. Matthew Muller — who pleaded guilty in the 2015 kidnapping and […]
David Eulitt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI has issued a formal warning to sports leagues about organized theft groups targeting professional athletes. The warning follows a rash of burglaries, beginning in September, at the homes of professional athletes while they were playing games or traveling. “These homes are targeted for burglary due to the perception […]
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a jury’s verdict last year that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided “Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the […]
