CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States — and some of his cabinet appointees appear to be split on the issue. Sources familiar with […]
ABC News (ATHENS, Ga.) — The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia’s campus was found guilty on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder. Prosecutors called the evidence against the suspect “overwhelming,” while the defense raised the theory that the defendant could be an accomplice […]
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation. In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, Buckingham said she’s offering the land “to be […]
Ismail Sen/Anadolu via Getty Images (CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery. Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of […]
Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed “to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power,” Trump’s defense attorneys argued Wednesday in a letter to the court. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove — both of whom Trump nominated last […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking out in an exclusive statement and audio recording to ABC News for the first time since a judge found last month that the Texas mother […]
ABC News One person was killed and two were injured by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm moved into the Pacific Northwest. In Lynwood, a woman in her 50s was killed when a tree fell on a homeless encampment Tuesday night. In Puget Sound, two were transported […]
Steve Christo – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States has seen a significant increase in the use of clean energy over the last few years; however, Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of energy, has claimed otherwise. Wright, chief executive of Liberty Energy — the world’s […]
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Righteous Torrance “Chevy” Hill had great plans for his future, cut short by a fatal shooting in front of his own home in February. Hill, a transgender man, left behind a budding legacy of activism as the founder of an LGBTQ-focused salon […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATHENS, Ga.) — The last moments before Laken Riley was killed while out on a run on the University of Georgia’s campus were shown in court Tuesday on the third day of the trial involving the murder of the 22-year-old nursing student. The Augusta University student was […]
