Four big takeaways from Day 16 of Trump's hush money trial
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump reached a crescendo Monday when the state's star witness, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, testified about his ex-boss directing him to "just tak...
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Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage demolished in controlled explosion after delays
Christopher Rosario/US Army Corps of Engineers(BALTIMORE) -- Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage was demolished in a controlled explosion on Monday evening after being delayed due to lightning near the site on Sunday.The removal process took ...
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Man who rammed U-Haul truck into White House security barrier pleads guilty
Jason Marz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A man who drove a U-Haul truck into metal barriers outside of the White House in May 2023 pleaded guilty on Monday, admitting he carried out the attack fueled by Nazi ideology and an intent to replace the U.S. gov...
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Foreign terrorist organizations could target Pride month events: FBI, DHS
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Foreign terrorist organizations may seek to exploit "LGBTQIA+-related events and venues," including events during 2024 Pride month -- celebrated in June, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security warned in...
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Boat sought in hit-and-run that killed teen waterskiing in Miami area
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- Authorities in Florida are seeking a boat involved in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a teenager waterskiing in the Miami area over the weekend.The victim was waterskiing near Nixon Beach in Key Biscayne Saturday af...
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Donald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in federal prison: Sources
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- Donald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in a Miami federal prison, according to sources familiar with the situation.Navarro, the former Trump White House adviser, was convicted in September of two counts of contemp...
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Invasive emerald ash borer endangers cultural keystone tree species
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash tree, a cultural keystone species that's now under threat from the invasive emerald a...
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'He cannot be trusted': Michael Cohen faces an uphill reputational battle with Trump's jury
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Monday might be the first time the jury in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial sees Michael Cohen in person, but they have heard plenty about the former president's one-time "fixer."Witness after witness ove...
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2 years after racially motivated Buffalo mass shooting, hate crimes targeting Black people persist
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As they sat in the lobby of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, D.C., last month, Garnell Whitfield Jr. and others who have lost relatives nationwide to gun violence liste...
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert
Minnesota's air quality alert was issued Sunday and will remain in place through Monday. (ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota ...
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