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Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The threat posed by artificial intelligence programs is real and creates a serious challenge going into the 2024 election, according to a new federal assessment. The analysis, compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by ABC News, outlines how, with less than […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — The battered cargo ship that’s been partially blocking the entrance to one of America’s busiest ports for two months is expected to be refloated and moved into port on Monday, officials said. The Dali, a 984-foot container ship traveling under a Singaporean flag, crashed in March into the Francis Scott […]
Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen will return to the witness stand for the final time before prosecutors rest their case against the former president in Trump’s criminal hush money case Monday. Cohen last week described Trump as being deeply involved in a scheme to hide information from voters […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried on criminal charges. Trump last […]
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — President Joe Biden was met with silent protests as he delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, after some students and faculty members voiced strong opposition to his visit over the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In his speech before the president’s address, […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday that he’s unconcerned about how President Joe Biden will fare at his first debate with former President Donald Trump next month. The two candidates’ agreement bucked the Commission on Presidential Debates, the longtime organizer of such forums. Biden’s camp suggested the body was unable […]
Blue Origin (NEW YORK) — Ed Dwight, the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after […]
Alder Family (KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.) — The boater accused of fatally striking a Florida teenager has released surveillance footage that he said shows he was unaware his boat had collided with the teen, according to his attorney. In the video, which was released by ABC affiliate WPLG, the boat operator appears to be calm after […]
Getty Images – STOCK (MORGANTON, N.C.) — Police in North Carolina are searching for the person who threw a rock at a moving car, hitting and killing a 23-year-old woman, authorities said. Brittany Elizabeth Ferguson was driving in Burke County around 8:40 p.m. Wednesday when a rock went through her windshield and fatally struck her […]
Getty Images – STOCK (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of the “Little Rock Nine” — the first group of African American students to attend Little Rock Central High School — sat down with ABC News to […]
