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Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase

Apu Gomes/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Amidst confusion around budget cuts affecting the Los Angeles Fire Department while thousands of firefighters are battling at least five wildfires, ABC News dug into the city budgets and other publicly available documents for the city.In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year.At the time, the city of Los Angeles was negotiating […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Jack Smith has resigned as special counsel, Justice Department says in court filing

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Jack Smith, who investigated Donald Trump over allegations of interfering with the 2020 election and unlawfully retaining classified documents after leaving the White House, has formally resigned as special counsel after submitting his final report on the probes to Attorney General Merrick Garland.Smith resigned Friday, according to a court filing that noted his departure in a footnote.His resignation was widely expected following Trump's reelection in November, as both his cases against the president-elect were dismissed due […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Judge orders DOJ to respond to Trump co-defendants’ allegations about Smith report

Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is ordering the Justice Department to respond to arguments made by President-elect Donald Trump's former co-defendants in his classified documents case by 10 a.m. Sunday.Cannon wants the government to address whether anything in the first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report, which deals with Smith's Jan 6 investigation, bears on any aspect of Trump's co-defendants in the classified documents case.The judge's order immediately followed a filing from DOJ that repeatedly […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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FBI questions people from Hegseth’s past ahead of Senate confirmation hearing: Sources

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The FBI has interviewed multiple individuals about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's personal life as part of its background check investigation, asking questions about alleged extramarital affairs, his relationship with alcohol and his character, according to sources familiar with the matter.As part of the background investigation, the FBI reached out to people in Hegseth's past, including individuals Hegseth has known much of his adult life, according to multiple sources familiar with the FBI's outreach and […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Tulsa race massacre probe finds 1921 horror was ‘coordinated, military-style attack’

Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images(TULSA, Okla.) -- The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a "coordinated, military-style attack" conducted by a white mob of over 10,000 people.The DOJ released a 126-page report Friday following a four-month investigation into the attacks, which took place between May 31 and June 1 in 1921. In addition to the murders and property destruction, […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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California fires weather forecast: Fire danger expected to increase as winds pick up

KABC(LOS ANGELES) -- There has been a reprieve from the strongest winds in Southern California over the past 24 hours, but winds are expected to pick up later Saturday into the night, raising the fire danger yet again.The fire outlook for Saturday is back at the "Critical" level for much of southern California as dry, gusty winds fan the flames.Wind alerts, including a High Wind Warning, are in effect for much of the Los Angeles area as this next round […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Green Beret’s suicide death revives questions about PTSD, risks to brain health

K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Image(LAS VEGAS) -- Six years before packing a rental truck with firework mortars and gas cannisters before shooting himself in the head -- an act he called a "wake-up" call to America in a note later found by law enforcement -- Army Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger told an ex-girlfriend he was spiraling."Sometimes, I get so hopeless and depressed, it's [expletive] ridiculous," he texted, at one point describing a close-range firefight in which […]

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Kyren Lacy, top NFL draft prospect, wanted for negligent homicide after deadly crash

Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images, FILE(LOUISIANA) -- NFL hopeful Kyren Lacy, one of the top wide receiver prospects in this year's draft, is wanted for negligent homicide in connection with a deadly crash in Louisiana last month, state police announced Friday.Louisiana State Police said they have issued an arrest warrant for Lacy, 24, of Thibodaux, for allegedly leaving the scene of a fatal crash on Dec. 17.Lacy, who played for Louisiana State University in the fall before declaring for the draft, is […]

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Federal judge holds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for repeating false claims about election workers

Alex Kent/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for violating a court order that barred him from making false and defamatory statements against two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgement against the former New York City mayor in 2023."The court holds that the defendant Mr. Giuliani violated the final injunction and the consent agreement, and he therefore is in contempt of this court," U.S. District […]

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