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Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Secret Service held meetings and started planning for what to do if former President Donald Trump were to be held in contempt in his criminal hush money trial and Judge Juan Merchan opted to send him to short-term confinement, officials familiar with the situation told ABC News. […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) — A Douglas DC-4 aircraft has crashed Tuesday in Fairbanks, Alaska, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety. Alaska State Troopers and first responders from other state, federal and local agencies are heading to the scene of the crash, officials said. The crash took place on the Tanana River […]

(NEW YORK) — Protests calling for the divestment of college and university funds from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on campuses across the country, including Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and more. The student protests — some of which have turned into around-the-clock encampments and […]

(WEST RICHLAND, Wash.) — A former police officer remains on the run Tuesday after allegedly killing his ex-wife, his girlfriend and abducting a 1-year-old child in Washington state, according to authorities. Elias Huizar allegedly killed a woman outside Wiley Elementary School on Monday afternoon, according to West Richland police. Hours later, authorities said they found […]

(NEW YORK) — Day 6 of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial featured testimony from David Pecker, the veteran tabloid editor, who described in detail the “catch-and-kill” arrangement he struck with Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential election. The former president is on trial in New York on felony charges […]

(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — Nine more couples are suing an in vitro fertilization provider saying it destroyed their embryos, but still implanted the nonviable embryos despite knowing they were not viable. In a joint lawsuit filed Tuesday, the couples allege that workers at Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach, California, exposed the embryos to lethal amounts […]

WXYZ (NEWPORT, Mich.) — A woman is facing second-degree murder charges after she allegedly drove into a child’s birthday party in Michigan, killing two children and injuring several others, officials said. Marshella Chidester, 66, allegedly struck a building at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Newport Saturday afternoon, and her car came to rest about […]

Getty Images – STOCK (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. The only survivor was the 10-year-old son who was asleep during the shootings, Oklahoma City police said. The 10-year-old called 911 Monday morning […]

(LOS ANGELES) — When federal agents raided the house of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs last month — as part of a case in which Combs denies wrongdoing — it wasn’t the FBI but rather agents from Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, who led the way. That put the agency, an arm of the Department of […]

(BALTIMORE) — The Dali, the container ship that left the Port of Baltimore in the early hours of March 26, before crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, toppling a portion of it, set sail despite its “unseaworthy” conditions, according to a Monday court filing from the City of Baltimore. In the court document, the […]