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STOCK PHOTO/Adobe Stock (NEW YORK) — The Chinese effort to hack prominent Americans is far more pervasive than previously reported, ABC News has learned. Sources told ABC News that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials are concerned the espionage operation by the Chinese government may have been in place for well over a year — […]
Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, SC) — Forty-three primates remain on the loose in a South Carolina town, two days after escaping from a research laboratory, authorities said Friday. As of midday Friday, the monkeys “have not yet been re-captured and returned to their enclosures,” a Yemassee Police Department spokesperson said in a statement. Traps were […]
Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Billionaire Elon Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the call told ABC News. Musk was at Mar-a-Lago with Trump on election night as well as the day after, as previously reported by ABC News. Musk’s […]
ABC News Illustration (SANTA FE, NM) — A major storm system is bringing a historic early season snowstorm to New Mexico and Colorado. Some areas could see up to 3 to 4 feet of snow, as the storm system moves out of the Southwest and into the western Plains. A blizzard warning has been issued […]
STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A text messaging service said Friday that it discovered “one or more” of its users allegedly sent out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut down the accounts. A representative from TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people to create phone numbers […]
ABC/Michael Le Brecht II (WASHINGTON) — Three people have been charged in an alleged Iran-linked plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, an Iranian-American activist and two Jewish Americans living in New York, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in New York. Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are charged with murder-for-hire, according to the U.S. […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case has paused all upcoming deadlines in the case, after special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Friday requesting the pause. As ABC News previously reported, Smith and the Justice Department are in talks about the best way to wind down the election case […]
Teen believed to be armed stopped from entering Wisconsin elementary school. Via Kenosha Police Department (KENOSHA, Wis.) — Several replica guns have been recovered from the home of a 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at a Wisconsin elementary school, but was stopped from entering the building, according to police. The 13-year-old tried to […]
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead. Via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — Moments before a convicted Jan. 6 rioter was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday, he sought a full pardon by claiming that Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day vindicated his actions. Zachary Alam told the court that he wanted a new classification […]
Getty Images (NEW JERSEY) — Multiple wildfires have erupted across New Jersey amid windy and dry conditions. A large brush fire broke out on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Bergen County in northern New Jersey, near New York City. The fire covers 19 acres and is 30% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said. […]