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Person of interest taken into custody for attempted rape of Central Park sunbather: Sources

James C Hooper/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A person of interest has been taken into custody for the attempted rape of a woman sunbathing in Central Park last month, police sources told ABC News.The man, who has not been identified, has not been charged in the June 24 attempted sexual assault of a woman, but the sources said DNA links him to the incident.The 21-year-old woman was alone and sunbathing in the Great Hill section of the park when a man […]

todayJuly 2, 2024

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Newly released grand jury documents in Epstein case reveal alleged victims accused of prostitution

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A grand jury in Palm Beach County on July 19, 2006, heard from two alleged underage victims of Jeffrey Epstein, two police officers and an investigator with the state's attorney's office in a proceeding that lasted less than four hours, according to newly unsealed transcripts released by a judge in Florida.During the testimony of the two alleged victims, each was confronted with questions about whether they understood that they had engaged in prostitution and could […]

todayJuly 2, 2024

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New details emerge in police shooting of 13-year-old New York boy

ABC News(UTICA, N.Y.) -- As the family of a 13-year-old boy who was killed by police in Utica, New York, demanded justice, the city's police chief alleged Monday that the teenager had a realistic-looking replica gun still in his hand when he was shot.The boy, identified as Nyah Mway, was shot once in the chest by a Utica police officer on Friday night after he and a friend were stopped on a street by officers investigating a robbery pattern, officials […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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Following Supreme Court ruling, Trump moves to have NY hush money conviction tossed: Sources

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling that President Donald Trump has some presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken to overturn results of the 2020 election, Trump on Monday sought to have his conviction thrown out in his New York criminal hush money case, according to sources.Trump's lawyers said the hush money verdict should be tossed because the jury saw evidence during trial that they believe should have been protected […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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US Marshals rescue 200 missing children over six weeks

Kali9/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Marshals Service rescued and located 200 missing or endangered children over a six-week period, the agency announced on Monday."Operation We Will Find You 2" focused on several hot spot cities such as Phoenix, Arizona, and Miami, Florida, where there were kids missing, it said."Whenever a child is missing, whether we cannot explain how they went missing, whether we think it was a family abduction, or whether it's a runaway, they are at risk of being […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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Two children among five dead after plane crashes in upstate New York: Police

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Five people, including two children, were killed Sunday in a plane crash in upstate New York, police said.The victims were family members from Georgia. They were headed back to Atlanta after a trip to Cooperstown, New York, for a baseball tournament, police said.The victims were Roger Beggs, 76; Laura VanEpps, 43; Ryan VanEpps, 42; James R. VanEpps, 12; and Harrison VanEpps, 10, according to police.On Sunday at approximately 2 p.m., state police said authorities were […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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DHS rolls out new technology for firefighters

DHS(WASHINGTON) -- A helmet-mounted indoor visualization and navigation device that allows first responders to see through dark smoke could soon be available to fire departments around the country, according to the Department of Homeland Security.The Department's Science and Technology Directorate is opening applications for fire departments around the country to apply for the technology developed by an Austin, Texas, startup Qwake Technologies. The technology was developed by Qwake along with the DHS through a 2020 contract to develop fire safety […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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Judge declares mistrial in Karen Read murder case after jury says it’s still undecided

Jason Marz/Getty Images(DEDHAM, Mass.) -- The judge in the Karen Read murder trial has declared a mistrial after the jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous consensus on the fifth day of deliberations Monday.Read was charged with killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, in January 2022.Prosecutors allege she hit O'Keefe with her car and left him to die in the middle of a snowstorm after the two got into an argument earlier in the day. Read […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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Hunter Biden sues Fox News over fictional miniseries

seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hunter Biden on Monday sued Fox News and its parent company over their production of a fictional miniseries that attorneys for the president's son called "an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation."The miniseries, called "The Trial of Hunter Biden," is described by Fox as a mock trial that seeks to show "how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look," and includes several sexually graphic images […]

todayJuly 1, 2024

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