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Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said he will announce his decision on Thursday regarding the potential resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who are each serving two consecutive life prison terms without parole. Gascón is holding a news conference at 1:30 p.m. local time. If Gascón […]
Ahmaud Arbery, Courtesy Arbery family (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — The three Georgia men convicted in the 2020 killing of 25-year-old jogger Ahmaud Arbery are in court Thursday to ask for a new trial in the murder case. One of the men, Travis McMichael, claimed that he and his father suspected Arbery — who had been jogging through the neighborhood — […]
ABC/Al Drago (WASHINGTON) — With the economy the top issue for many voters in the home stretch of the election, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to announce record lending from the federal government to small business owners on Thursday, according to a White House fact sheet shared exclusively with ABC News. The Small Business Administration (SBA) […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On a recent Sunday night in Virginia, Henrico County registrar Mark Coakley was waiting for the start of the Cowboys-Steelers NFL game that was delayed due to inclement weather. Coakley was scanning X, formerly known as Twitter, when he came across a post by the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon […]
Image via National Park Service (JACKSON, Wyo.) –A beloved grizzly bear has been struck and killed by a vehicle in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, officials said. The famed grizzly bear — known simply as “Grizzly Bear 399”due to the identity tag attached to her ear — was fatally struck on Tuesday evening by […]
Bridget Bennett for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The race for the White House is heading into the final stretch with most polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in key states with two weeks to go. Harris lines up stars for Atlanta rally Vice President Kamala […]
jfmdesign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dozens of people across the U.S. have contracted E. coli traced to ingredients in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. As a result, McDonald’s announced it has proactively removed two ingredients from stores across two impacted regions, but the company’s leadership team has […]
David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEATTLE) — Boeing machinists on Wednesday rejected a new contract proposal that would’ve ended a weekslong work stoppage against the embattled aerospace company — and the union said the strike will go on. Sixty-four percent of workers voted to reject the new contract, according to the International Association of Machinists […]
Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Justice Department has sent a letter to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s America PAC warning that his $1 million sweepstakes giveaway to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. The letter from the Election […]
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — An unexpected challenge in Tennessee’s first week of voting involved touchscreens in the state’s two largest counties resulted in no recorded irregularities and an unlikely fix: coffee stirrers that allow voters to choose with precision their preferred candidate, local officials told ABC News. The stirrers, which since 2020 have […]