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Murder suspect mistakenly released from jail after ‘cybersecurity incident’

Kali9/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- Authorities in Georgia are searching for 30-year-old murder suspect Zion River Shaka, who was mistakenly released by Clayton County authorities last week, according to ABC affiliate WSB in Atlanta. Last week, Shaka was transferred from the Fulton County Jail and sent to the custody of the Clayton County Sheriff's Office for a scheduled hearing with instructions to return to the Fulton County Jail afterward, however, he was mistakenly released after the hearing, according to WSB. Shaka has […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024

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Joshua Schulte, largest leaker of CIA material in history, sentenced to 40 years in prison

Jason Marz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Joshua Schulte, who was convicted of orchestrating the largest leak of classified material in CIA history, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday. Schulte, 35, handed WikiLeaks a trove of CIA cyber espionage tools known as Vault 7, in what federal prosecutors called "some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the Espionage Act in American history." He was convicted in July 2022 of illegally handling classified information and obstruction of justice after an […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024

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139 passengers, crew sickened during gastrointestinal illness outbreak on Queen Victoria cruise: CDC

Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 140 people have fallen sick during a gastrointestinal illness outbreak on a three-week Queen Victoria cruise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Cunard Cruise Line ship departed Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Jan. 22. Overall, 123 passengers and 16 crew members have reported being ill during the voyage as of Thursday, according to the CDC. The cases are for the entire voyage and do not represent the number of […]

todayFebruary 2, 2024

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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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