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Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in perjury plea talks, sources say

Alex Kent/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former Trump Org. Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is in plea talks with the Manhattan district attorney's office to resolve a potential perjury charge, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. If the negotiations succeed, Weisselberg would plead guilty to lying on the witness stand when he testified in October at the civil fraud trial that names him, his former boss -- former President Donald Trump -- and others as defendants, […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024

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Many students have still not regained pandemic-era losses in reading, math: Report

Ableimages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds. For the report, published Wednesday, a collaborative team at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, looked at the first year of regular testing between spring 2022 and spring 2023 for school districts in 30 states. Overall, students managed […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024

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Man who had affair with Jennifer Crumbley testifies about her son’s school shooting

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(PONTIAC, Mich.) -- Brian Meloche, a longtime friend of Jennifer Crumbley and with whom she was having an affair with at the time of the 2021 Oxford School shooting, took the stand to testify in her manslaughter trial on Wednesday. In texts sent after the shooting, Jennifer Crumbley told Meloche that the shooting "could have been prevented," according to evidence. In other texts, she told him the school was "nonchalant" about concerns surrounding Ethan Crumbley and said that the […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Suspects sought after 11-year-old injured in shooting attack by three assailants in Atlanta

Atlanta Police Department(ATLANTA) -- Police in Atlanta said they are searching for three suspects who chased down and opened fire on an 11-year-old boy, injuring him. Atlanta police released surveillance footage on Wednesday that captured the incident while asking for the public's help in identifying the three male suspects. The incident occurred on Jan. 14. Officers responded to a report of a person shot around 6:18 p.m. local time, Atlanta police said. Surveillance footage showed the victim running from the […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Three teens shot, one fatally, in apparent targeted attack near their Chicago high school: Police

avid_creative/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- One teenager was killed and two were injured in an apparent targeted shooting in broad daylight a few blocks from their Chicago school, according to police. The three teens were walking Wednesday afternoon when a car pulled up, and several people got out and fired shots toward the victims, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference. One teen was killed, one is in critical condition and the other is in stable condition with a […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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New, dangerous storm brings a ‘significant threat to the safety of Californians’

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A powerful Pacific jet stream is bringing two dangerous storms fueled by an atmospheric river to the West Coast, the first of which struck Northern California on Wednesday and is pummeling Southern California on Thursday. This first storm brings a "significant threat to the safety of Californians," Brian Ferguson, spokesman for the state's Office of Emergency Operations Services, warned Wednesday. The rain reached the San Francisco Bay area on Wednesday and has since dropped 3 to […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Three dead, five in critical condition in Boise building collapse near airport

Piccell/Getty Images(BOISE, Idaho) -- Three people died and five were left in critical condition after a building under construction near the Boise, Idaho, airport collapsed Wednesday night, according to fire department officials. “Tonight, there was a catastrophic collapse of a metal structure at a construction site. First responders found a hectic scene and worked to secure and rescue victims,” Division Chief of Operations Aaron Hummel said in a statement late Wednesday night. “The Boise Airport, City of Boise, and all […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Idaho college murders: Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers request change of venue, outside jury pool

In this June 27, 2023, file photo, Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a hearing at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho. (August Frank-Pool/Getty Images)(MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Arguing that a "fair and impartial jury cannot be found" in the area where four Idaho college students were killed in 2022, lawyers for the accused killer are asking that his capital murder trial be moved to a different location so it would be heard by jurors who have not been exposed […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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New Mexico officers will not be charged in fatal shooting while responding to wrong house

amphotora/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Three New Mexico police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Robert Dotson while responding to the wrong home's address will not be charged, according to a letter from the New Mexico Justice Department. The shooting took place on April 5, 2023, when Farmington police officers, Daniel Estrada, Dylan Goodluck and Waylon Wasson, who were responding to a domestic violence call around 11:30 p.m. local time, mistakenly went to Dotson's home -- approaching house number 5305 […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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