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ABC News (PHOENIX) — Extreme late-season heat is plaguing the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle with heat alerts issued for more than 65 million Americans across six states. Phoenix has surpassed 110 degrees 55 times this summer, tying the record set just last year. Phoenix is expected to break that all-time record Thursday […]

(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Newly released police body camera footage shows Sonya Massey interacting with police officers 16 hours before she was fatally shot in her Illinois home on July 6, when deputies responded to her 911 call of a suspected prowler. In the course of the video, which was obtained by ABC affiliate WICS and […]

(LOS ANGELES) — After hours of legal wrangling on Thursday, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to nine tax-related charges in a last-minute bid to avoid a lengthy and potentially embarrassing trial, abandoning an earlier proposal to plead guilty while maintaining his innocence on the underlying conduct. U.S. Judge Mark Scarsi accepted Hunter Biden’s guilty plea to […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is once again brushing aside traditional debate preparations as his first match against Vice President Kamala Harris approaches, reverting to a similar strategy of policy meetings with advisers and a series of interviews and town halls. In the week leading up to the Sept. 10 ABC News debate, Trump […]

(LOS ANGELES) — After hours of legal wrangling on Thursday, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to nine tax-related charges in a last-ditch bid to avoid a lengthy and potentially embarrassing trial in Los Angeles. The president’s son initially offered a so-called “Alford plea,” in which he would agree to a guilty plea on the […]

(NEW YORK) — A trans teenager was allegedly assaulted by a large group of teens in Massachusetts, and police are investigating it as a possible hate crime. Jayden Tkaczyk, 16, had been at an outdoor party in a wooded area in Gloucester Friday night when the alleged incident occurred. His attorney, Craig Rourke, told ABC […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 32-year-old suspect who has evaded authorities for nearly three weeks following the alleged hit-and-run death of a skateboarding 7-year-old boy has been arrested, according to authorities. Donald Mynatt, 32, has been wanted by the Cleveland Division of Police for leaving the scene of an accident that caused the […]

(NEW YORK) — The time of year that typically sees the most tropical systems forming in the Atlantic Basin is almost here. The past three weeks in the Atlantic Basin have been notably quiet with no named storm formations since Ernesto on Aug. 12. The last time the Atlantic had no named storm formations between […]

(LOS ANGELES) — More than a year after a plea deal between prosecutors and Hunter Biden collapsed, jury selection in the federal tax trial of President Joe Biden’s son is scheduled to begin this morning in a Los Angeles federal courthouse. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi plans to seat 12 jurors and four alternates for […]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Former President Donald Trump’s election interference case resumes Thursday after months of delays, with a hearing in front of the federal judge overseeing the case. The hearing comes a week after special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment that revised the original Jan. 6 charges to reflect the U.S. […]