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Shark bites 14-year-old boy on leg at North Carolina beach: Police

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(OAHU, Hawaii) -- A 14-year-old boy is recovering after a shark bit him on the leg at a North Carolina beach, authorities said.The attack unfolded around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer said. Beachgoers sprung into action, getting the boy out of the water and applying towels and pressure to slow the bleeding, he said.Officers and emergency medical technicians were already at the beach responding to another call, so the response time was about […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Woman vanishes on hiking trail near San Diego, search underway

San Diego Police Department via X/Twitter(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) -- A search continued Monday for a 50-year-old woman a day after she went missing while hiking in a wilderness area in San Diego, according to police.The hiker, identified by police as Diem Le Nguyen, vanished Sunday morning after she became separated from her hiking group of about 100 people while on the Nighthawk Trail in Black Mountain Open Space Park in the Rancho Peñasquitos area of north San Diego, according to […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires have doubled in last 20 years, new study finds

Stock-zilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More research is emerging to show how much more severe wildfires have become in recent decades.The frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires -- the ones that cause the most damage to ecosystems, society and the climate -- appear to have doubled over the past 20 years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.Researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia used satellite data from 2003 to 2023 to identify active […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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‘A prayer answered’: American detained for ammo in Turks and Caicos says of flight home

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As Ryan Watson, an American tourist who had been charged with bringing ammunition to Turks and Caicos in April, boarded a plane after his release, he had only one thought on his mind."To know that I was on a plane headed home, that's a prayer answered," Watson said in an interview that aired Monday on ABC News' Good Morning America.A judge last week fined Watson $2,000 for four bullets discovered in his luggage as he landed […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Blaming Trump for ‘combustible atmosphere,’ prosecutors to push for gag order in classified docs case

ftwitty/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The judge overseeing Donald Trump's federal classified documents case will hear arguments Monday afternoon to consider imposing a limited gag order that would prohibit the former president from making statements that pose a "significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger" to law enforcement agents.The request for a gag order by special counsel Jack Smith follows a month of escalating rhetoric from Trump about federal agents' use-of-force policy during their August 2022 search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate for classified […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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‘I feel terrified’: Inventor of ‘Glock switch’ technology says he regrets creation

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When Jorge Leon invented at the age of 22 a small device that turns Glock pistols into fully automatic weapons, he said he intended it to be used for the good of society, to help the military and police in his native country of Venezuela.But 26 years after being granted a U.S. patent for his "fire selector system," U.S. law enforcement officials say his creation is flooding the streets of American cities with these outlawed machine […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Where do legal challenges to abortion bans stand?

Creativeye99/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, litigation has been critical in restoring access to abortion care -- but it has not been a successful path in all states.At least 14 states have ceased nearly all abortion services and seven other states have restrictions in effect, limiting access to the procedure.State courts around the country have been the site of battles over how to regulate abortion care -- with abortion […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Active shooting incidents in the US declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023: FBI

Steve Prezant/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Active shooter incidents in the U.S. declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Monday.In 2023, the FBI designated 48 shootings as "active shooter incidents," compared to 50 in 2022, according to the FBI’s 2023 Active Shooter Report.Last year also saw the number of those killed decrease from 313 in 2022 to 244 in 2023, according to the report. The shooters were largely male.The FBI says from […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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Blistering heat dome scorches cities coast-to-coast as it enters second week

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Cities across the heartland are expected on Monday to see temperatures close to 100 degrees, with the heat index in some locations reaching to 110.More than 60 million Americans across 21 states are under heat alerts coast to coast.The heat index is expected to soar between 100 and 110 in locations from South Dakota to Florida.Temperatures this week will remain very hot over the middle and southern parts of the US, but not necessarily record-breaking.The greatest […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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