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Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is on trial in Washington, D.C., this week for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Giuliani, acting on behalf of former President Donald Trump, accused the mother and […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Texas’ Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a woman who sued for an emergency abortion in her home state, overturning a lower court’s ruling last week. Kate Cox, 31, filed a lawsuit after she said she was denied an abortion for a pregnancy with a severe anomaly. In its […]

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has asked the Supreme Court to step in and decide the issue of presidential immunity regarding former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference charges. Hours after Smith filed his request Monday, the court said it would consider the request on an expedited basis. “Petitioner’s […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A high school basketball coach is recovering from injuries suffered after being attacked by one of his players who he had benched during a game earlier in the evening, police say. The assault took place on the night of Dec. 5 at approximately 9:52 p.m. when the Montgomery County […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ten teens were charged on Monday in a string of carjackings in Washington, D.C., authorities said, amid what law enforcement calls a sharp rise in the crime in the nation’s capital. The 10 suspects are believed to be involved in two separate carjacking rings in D.C., authorities said: The teens, […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The brain of the alleged Maine mass shooter is being studied to determine whether his reported mental health problems could be linked to brain damage sustained during his military service, a spokesperson for Maine’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirms to ABC News. Samples from alleged gunman Robert Card’s […]

Dr. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on Dec. 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay cleared a hurdle to keeping her job after the Harvard Corporation board issued a statement unanimously […]

Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is on trial in Washington, D.C., this week for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Giuliani, acting on behalf of former President Donald Trump, accused the mother and […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and other top Trump Organization executives […]