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(MINNETONKA, Minn.) — A transgender student is speaking out along with their family after allegedly being assaulted while using the bathroom in their Minnetonka, Minnesota, high school. The May 30 incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to local police. Cobalt Sovereign, 17, told ABC News they were using the men’s bathroom […]

(WILMINGTON, Del.) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a firearm in 2018 while allegedly addicted to drugs. The younger Biden, who pleaded not guilty last October after being indicted by special counsel David Weiss, has denied the charges. The […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Two former top Trump aides pleaded not guilty in Maricopa County court Friday morning for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, and Mike Roman, who was Trump’s director of Election Day operations, appeared virtually in […]

amphotora/Getty Images (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Police in Burlington, Vermont have apologized after high school students were left terrified Wednesday by a “mock shooting” that they did not know was staged. The drill – in which officers simulated “a robbery scenario” that included fake firearms – took place at the Burlington Police Department (BPD) station as […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Seven tornadoes touched down in Maryland and northern Virginia Wednesday night with winds up to 105 mph knocking downing trees and power lines, the National Weather Service said. Five people were injured in the Mid-Atlantic, according to the National Weather Service. A tornado warning was issued late Wednesday in […]

Record breaking heat the next few days. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — An early season heat dome is bringing life-threatening temperatures to Americans from California to Oregon to Florida. Temperature records were smashed across the nation on Thursday, including 97 degrees in Cedar City, Utah; 102 degrees in Winter Haven, Florida; 113 degrees in […]

(NEW YORK) — A deleted document that investigators recovered from a laptop may be the key to establishing intent in the case against Rex Heuermann, who has been charged with the murders of six women over several decades, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told ABC News on Friday. That document, which investigators described as […]

(WILMINGTON, Del.) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a firearm in 2018 while allegedly addicted to drugs. The younger Biden, who pleaded not guilty last October after being indicted by special counsel David Weiss, has denied the charges. The […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Numerous tornadoes were reported in Maryland and northern Virginia Wednesday night, knocking downing trees and power lines. A tornado warning was issued in Montgomery County, Maryland, after a confirmed tornado was located near Poolesville, Maryland, about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. “This is a particularly dangerous situation,” the […]

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — After the successful launch of the first astronaut-crewed test flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner, new problems have been discovered, according to NASA. Three helium leaks developed as Starliner made its way to the International Space Station (ISS), according to a post on the social platform X from the agency’s Johnson Space Center […]