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Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a state appeals court Wednesday to uphold a lower court’s determination that former President Donald Trump, his adult sons and his company are liable for a fraudulent scheme that inflated Trump’s net worth by as much as $2.2 billion, arguing the […]

Noam Galai/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Human bones were found in a Brooklyn park along the shore of the East River for the second time in a week, according to the New York Police Department. Police responded to a 911 report of a body found at Jane’s Carousel early Wednesday, and determined the civilian discovered […]

(WASHINGTON) — Cecilia sat in front of her computer repeatedly refreshing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services webpage on Monday, waiting for the application for the Biden administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program to show up on her screen. Minutes later, she clicked it open and submitted the form in less than 20 minutes. A little […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Texas has been baking in record heat since the weekend, and Wednesday will be no exception. Another day of record highs is possible. Houston was one of the cities in Texas that hit the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, reaching 102 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather […]

(MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Some homeowners in Southern California are blurring their homes on Google Maps as a means of deterring potential burglaries, Ryan Railsback, an officer in the Riverside Police Department, told ABC News. The tactic could reduce the likelihood of a robbery by denying would-be wrongdoers useful information about the value of one’s […]

Monroe Township Police Department (WILLIAMSTOWN, N.J.) — Three Florida residents have been arrested after they were hired for an alleged acid attack on a woman in New Jersey last month, officials said Tuesday. Police responded to a home in Monroe Township on July 26, where a 42-year-old woman was attacked upon arriving home from work, […]

Getty Images – STOCK/Alvaro Iglesias Martin (BRIDGETON, N.J.) — Police are seeking a woman who hopped a fence surrounding a tiger enclosure at a New Jersey zoo. Video of the incident showed the unidentified woman reaching through the enclosure’s fence at the Cohanzick Zoo in Bridgeton. The woman can be seen attempting to pet the […]

(NEW YORK) — After nearly two and a half months of searching, law enforcement officials have arrested fugitive Joshua Zimmerman, who had been on the run since escaping from the DeSoto County Circuit Court Building in Mississippi on June 14. The United States Marshals Service said Zimmerman was detained on Wednesday morning after an overnight […]

(NEW YORK) — As schools and libraries across the country face record-breaking attempts to remove books from shelves, most Americans are opposed to book restrictions in public schools, according to a new survey. In 2023, the American Library Association (ALA) documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship, as well as 1,247 demands to censor […]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd was released from prison Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to ABC News. Thomas Lane, 41, pleaded guilty in May 2022 to state charges of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. As part of the […]