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Wildfires break out across California: Latest fire and smoke maps

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has now grown to be the biggest in the state this year.There are currently 11 wildfires over 1,000 acres burning in California, according to Cal Fire. The largest of those is the Park Fire, burning in Butte and Tehama counties, just north of Chico, which grew to over 164,000 acres on Friday with just 3% containment.Ronnie Dean Stout II, 48, has been arrested […]

todayJuly 26, 2024

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Top Sinaloa cartel leaders, including son of El Chapo, taken into US custody: DOJ

Andrew Brookes/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Two top leaders of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel have been taken into custody by United States authorities to face charges for their role in leading the group's vast drug trafficking enterprise, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of "El Chapo" Guzman, were placed under arrest in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland."Both men are facing multiple charges in […]

todayJuly 26, 2024

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Officials charge man for starting California wildfire that has burned more than 71,000 acres

Oregon Department of Transportation via AP(CHICO, Calif.) -- A Northern California wildland fire that exploded overnight into the state's largest blaze this wildfire season, destroying structures and prompting thousands of evacuations, was allegedly started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully, authorities said Thursday.The 48-year-old arson suspect charged with starting the Park Fire in Butte County near the city of Chico was arrested Thursday morning and jailed without bail, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Boeing capsule astronauts remain at Space Station with no return date, NASA says

NASA via AP(NEW YORK) -- Boeing Starliner's first astronaut-crewed capsule, which launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, remains docked at the station with no official return date, NASA said Thursday."We don't have a major announcement today relative to a return date," NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich said during a joint press conference with Boeing officials."We're making great progress, but we're just not quite ready to do that," Stich added.What was initially planned to be […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Manhattan DA asks judge not to throw out Trump’s criminal hush money conviction

Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) --Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday asked a New York judge to reject former President Donald Trump's attempt to throw out his criminal hush money conviction, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on presidential immunity "has nothing to say about defendant's conviction."Trump earlier this month asked Judge Juan Merchan to vacate his conviction on the grounds that the trial was "tainted" by evidence and testimony that was made off-limits after the Supreme Court […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Ex-deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey was discharged from the Army for serious misconduct

Sangamon County Sheriff's Office(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- The Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home while responding to her 911 call was discharged from the U.S. Army for “misconduct (serious offense),” according to documents obtained by ABC News.Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, was discharged on February 24, 2016, after beginning service in the U.S. Army on May 5, 2014. He served for a total of one year, nine months and 19 days, Grayson’s certificate of […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Former Uvalde school district police officer pleads not guilty as victims’ families look on

Uvalde County Sheriff's Office via AP(UVALDE, Texas) -- A former Uvalde, Texas, school district police officer pleaded not guilty to the 29 counts against him on Thursday as families of the Robb Elementary School victims looked on.Two teachers and 19 students were killed in the May 24, 2022, mass shooting. Law enforcement waited some 77 minutes at the scene before breaching a classroom and killing the gunman.Former Uvalde school district police officer Adrian Gonzales faces 29 charges of abandoning and […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Court sets Aug. 27 deadline for brief appealing Trump classified docs dismissal

Travis Dove/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- Special counsel Jack Smith's opening brief appealing the dismissal of former President Donald Trump's classified documents case is due on Aug. 27, according to a briefing notice Thursday from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.Smith last week filed an official notice of appeal after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, in a surprise decision, dismissed Trump's classified documents case.Cannon dismissed the case on the grounds that Smith's appointment as special counsel […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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Man shot, injured at Pennsylvania Trump rally released from hospital

Dutch Family(NEW YORK) -- One of the two men shot and injured in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has been released from the hospital, officials said.David Dutch, 57, was discharged on Wednesday, Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh said.Dutch was shot in the chest and liver and was initially in a medically induced coma after the shooting, according to the Marine Corps League of Pennsylvania.Dutch is a former Marine who serves as commandant of his Marine Corps League […]

todayJuly 25, 2024

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