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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday faced criticism from Republicans and some progressive Democrats over reports that he is considering executive action to tighten asylum restrictions. One potential course of action, an administration official told ABC News, would be to prohibit migrants from seeking asylum if they cross into the U.S. […]
Intuitive Machines (HOUSTON) — A Houston-based company is attempting to make the first-ever commercial moon landing on Thursday, and the first by a U.S.-built spacecraft in more than 50 years. Intuitive Machines’ lander, named Odysseus, launched last week from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and entered lunar orbit on Wednesday. It will orbit the […]
Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis this week quashed speculation about being Donald Trump’s vice president, blamed bitter ex-staffers for attacks he’s weathered from Trump’s allies, and criticized conservative media’s coverage of the the former president. DeSantis made the remarks in a 30-minute Zoom call with supporters on Wednesday, […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ATHENS, Ga.) — Foul play is suspected after a woman who went for a run on the University of Georgia’s Athens campus was found dead Thursday, school officials said. A friend reported the woman missing shortly after noon after she failed to return home from a run at the school’s intramural fields […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — Alexei Navalny’s cause of death has been listed as “natural” on his medical report, according to Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, who was relayed the information on the death certificate by the Russian opposition leader’s mother. “The medical report on death shown to the mother of Alexei Navalny stated […]
@POTUS/X (SAN FRANCISCO) — President Joe Biden met with the widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, and his daughter, Dasha, on Thursday during the president’s trip to California. Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison last week at 47 years old. After her husband’s death, Yulia […]
KMGH (DENVER) — A monument honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., created by the nation’s first African American NASA astronaut candidate, was vandalized in a Denver park this week by perpetrators who pried off a large bronze plaque and other pieces from the statue’s pedestal, authorities said. The damage to the “I Have a […]
Thomas Northcut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A sluggish housing market for most of last year began to heat up as the calendar turned to 2024. In recent weeks, however, the market has cooled once again. A surge in mortgage rates accounts for the slowdown in the housing market, experts told ABC News, pointing to elevated […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest between the warring sides since Israel’s founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire […]
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children in the state, calling it “outrageous and unacceptable.” “Today, in 2024 in America, women are being turned away from emergency rooms and forced to travel hundreds of miles for health […]
