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(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is set to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against the alleged gunman who fatally shot two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. Prosecutors are poised to request that a grand jury indict Elias Rodriguez, as soon as this […]

Gary S. Chapman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A small earthquake centered in northern New Jersey on Tuesday rattled the New York City metropolitan area, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor that hit just after noon was centered in Hillsdale, in Bergen County, and measured a magnitude 2.7 on the Richter scale. There […]

(SOLVANG, Calif.) — The Gifford Fire, a wildfire burning in Central California that has destroyed over 82,000 acres in five days, continues to rage and is now accompanied by two additional fires emerging nearby, according to officials. Since it started on Friday afternoon, the Gifford Fire — which is situated within the Los Padres National […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Texas House of Representatives failed again on Tuesday afternoon to move forward on their redistricting effort as several Democratic members have fled the state over a Republican redistricting plan. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, on Monday ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to find and arrest those Democrats, an order Abbott […]

(ANACONDA, Mont.) — A manhunt is intensifying for the former U.S. Army soldier who’s been at large for days after allegedly gunning down four people at a Montana bar. Michael Paul Brown, 45, is suspected of opening fire on Friday morning at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, a city of about 9,000 people in southwestern […]

Stock image of police lights. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SHEARON HARRIS LAKE, N.C.) — A 10-year-old girl is dead and a woman suffered “critical injury” after a drunken boater struck swimmers in a North Carolina lake over the weekend, according to officials. Quinten Gregory Kight, 40, has been charged with felony operating a motor vessel while […]

(PITTSTOWN, N.J.) — A New Jersey State Police sergeant, who once served on Gov. Phil Murphy’s security detail, is suspected of killing his former girlfriend and the volunteer firefighter she was dating in a house in Franklin Township before dying by suicide, authorities said. Following Sunday’s double homicide, police discovered Sgt. 1st Class Ricardo Jorge Santos dead […]

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (JACKSON, Tenn.) — A manhunt for the suspect in the Tennessee kidnappings and killings of four people, including three from the same family, ended Tuesday when he was taken into custody, police said. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody in Jackson by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, according to […]

(NEW YORK) — Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks, New York lawmakers say the health program created to care for survivors and responders is faltering and they’re demanding answers. In a new letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand raised concerns about staffing shortages, frozen research grants […]

(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Coast Guard has released its final report on the catastrophic implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible in June 2023, which killed five people on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic wreckage. The 335-page report, released Tuesday, comes nearly a year after the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation held a two-week […]