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Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images (WICHITA, Kan.) — A statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson stolen from a Kansas park was found dismantled and burned in a trash can fire Tuesday morning in what authorities called a “disgraceful” act, as the search for the perpetrators continues. The statue was taken from McAdams Park in Wichita last week. Surveillance video […]
David Becker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When then-President Donald Trump falsely declared victory days after Election Night in 2020, dozens of CEOs at the nation’s top companies assembled on a Zoom call to prevent what they feared could be the end of democracy in the U.S. As Trump stands poised to win the Republican nomination in the […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call untested and lacking in evidence that it’s more humane than lethal injection, after Alabama became the first state to execute someone with nitrogen gas. Ohio state Reps. Phil Plummer and Brian […]
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A “game jam” is an online competition for people who make games, whether tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons or video games like Minecraft or Call of Duty. But most game jam submissions are a lot smaller than those titles. Teams are often small, and they usually only have a […]
Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Schools are the third-highest location for hate crimes in the United States, with as much as 10% of all reported hate crimes in 2022 happening at schools across the country, according to a new report the FBI released Monday. Secondary schools — comprised of preschool to 12th grade — saw […]
Digital Vision./Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon on Monday announced the names of the three Army reservists killed in the drone attack over the weekend on a U.S. base in Jordan near the border with Syria. Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh announced the names at a briefing Monday afternoon: Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, […]
Sasi Ponchaisang / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An 11-year-old is being praised for her quick action after a man allegedly attempted to kidnap her in an incident that was caught on camera in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday. In security camera footage obtained by the Glendale Police Department, a driver in a car is seen […]
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk announced that his company Neuralink implanted a brain chip in a human in a preliminary clinical study. If research studies continue to look promising, devices like these could one day be a “game changer” for people with limited motor function, experts told ABC News. Neuralink says its goal […]
Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of State has issued a new warning for American travelers headed to the Bahamas due to violent crime that has impacted the local population. The advisory, issued on Jan. 26, urged travelers to “exercise increased caution” should they decide to visit the Caribbean country. What to […]
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the United Auto Workers union conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — After the United Auto Workers union officially endorsed President Joe Biden last week, former President Donald Trump lashed out at the union’s president on Sunday, […]
