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Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking Israeli retaliation plans

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A former CIA analyst arrested in November and charged with leaking highly classified records showing Israeli plans to launch a retaliatory strike on Iran pleaded guilty Friday in a federal court in Virginia.Asif Rahman, 34, pleaded guilty to two counts of transmission of national defense information, according to court records.Rahman faces up to 10 years in prison for the first count and up to three years for the second count. His sentencing was set for May […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Trump AG pick Pam Bondi made at least $3 million from Truth Social merger, filings show

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, made at least $3 million from the merger that formed the parent company of Trump's Truth Social platform, her new personal financial disclosure filing showed.According to the filing, Bondi, like "all other shareholders," received $3 million worth of shares and warrants of the special purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corporation through a Puerto Rico-based LLC "on the morning of the merger."The shares and warrants […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Trump urges Georgia Supreme Court to keep DA Fani Willis disqualified from election interference case

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- President-elect Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the criminal election interference case against him.The filing from Trump's attorneys, just days before Trump's inauguration, asked the court to uphold the appeals court ruling last month that disqualified Willis over her relationship with a prosecutor on the case.Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court earlier this month to reverse her disqualification.Trump's lawyers argued in Friday's filing […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Rare Gulf Coast winter storm may hit next week: Latest forecast

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A developing winter storm may bring rare snow and ice to cities along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.The storm is set to hit the region on Tuesday.It is too early to say how much snow or ice will fall, but the rare event could pose a major problem on roads and for utility companies.The last time New Orleans saw measurable snow was 2009, and the last time the city saw more than 1 inch […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Federal judge to decide fate of Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s classified docs case

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Six months after a federal judge dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Donald Trump and his two co-defendants, defense attorneys are set to return to Florida to try to prevent the limited release of Smith's final report detailing his investigation.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed out the case based on the constitutionality of Smith's appointment, is considering whether to prevent Attorney General Merrick Garland from allowing select members of Congress to view […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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2 dead, 2 injured after man attacks group of people with a stick

mbbirdy/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- Two people are dead, and two others have been injured after a man allegedly attacked a group of homeless people with a stick, police said.Police in Miami, Florida, say that units responded after 6 a.m. on Thursday to reports of an armed male who was "beating up people," according to Miami Chief of Police Manuel Morales during a news conference.Several people -- all of whom were homeless -- were attacked during the incident, according to Morales.Police believe […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Biden pardons nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders

Mandel Ngan - Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in history, after announcing Friday that he was pardoning nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.Biden said in the announcement -- which came just three days before his term ends -- that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and "serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025

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Southwest Airlines pilot arrested, allegedly intoxicated, at Georgia airport ahead of flight

Savannah Airport Police Dept.(GEORGIA) -- A Southwest Airlines pilot was arrested this week for allegedly reporting to work at a Georgia airport intoxicated, causing his Chicago-bound flight to be delayed for hours.The pilot, identified as 52-year-old David Allsop, was arrested at Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah on Wednesday after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer noticed he allegedly "smelled of alcohol and appeared intoxicated," the agency said in a statement to ABC News.Southwest Airlines confirmed the pilot had been […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

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Altadena family recounts their harrowing escape from Eaton Fire

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- The Los Angeles wildfires have destroyed thousands of structures since Jan. 7. In Altadena, north of Pasadena, the Eaton Fire has damaged or destroyed 7,000 structures.One of the structures destroyed by the fire was the home Erion and Stephan Taylor lived in with their three children. They say they only had 20 minutes to evacuate on Jan. 7."My heart dropped, I saw the flames, and I said 'Honey, come here for a second' and he looked out the […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025

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