‘Get them here now!’: 911 calls from California's Eaton Fire full of pleas for help
ABC News (CALIFORNIA) — Voices were full of panic when 911 operators began answering the urgent calls for help that started flowing into the emergency line on the evening of Jan. 7. “There’s houses on fire. There’s
Top Trump official tasked with dismantling USAID is out
Ezra Acayan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, told State Department staff on Tuesday night that he is stepping away from his role at USAID and returning
Man with apparent handgun outside CIA headquarters in custody after barricade incident
ABC News Federal authorities responded to the CIA headquarters in Virginia on Wednesday after a man brandished what appeared to be a handgun outside the building, sources told ABC News. At one point, the man pointed a
Napa Valley luxury wines hitch wagon to country music academy
Nothing says “country music” quite like a bottle of 2019 Sonoma Cutrer Grand Brut Rose. At least it will soon, as the Academy of Country Music this week announced its “official wine partnership” with St. Helena-based Duckhorn
Crowdfunding campaign raises over $100,000 for Connecticut man held captive in home for 20 years
A woman was charged for allegedly holding her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forcing him to endure “prolonged abuse, starvation, severe neglect, and inhumane treatment,” police
Residents told to 'leave now' as wildfires threaten Oklahoma towns
ABC News (NORMAN, Okla.) — Winds of up to 75 mph were fanning multiple fast-moving Oklahoma wildfires on Wednesday morning, prompting evacuation orders for towns in the path of the flames, officials said. Firefighters are battling blazes in Logan,
Minnesota Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested for soliciting minor: Police
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (BLOOMINGTON, Minn.) — A Minnesota Republican state senator was arrested on Monday for soliciting a minor, according to the Bloomington Police Department. Justin David Eichorn, the Republican state senator for District 6, believed
Judge calls out military's history of discrimination in blocking Trump's transgender soldier ban
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban transgender people from military service continues an unfortunate history of the armed services excluding marginalized people from the “privilege of serving,” a federal judge
JFK files key takeaways: What we learned and didn’t
Robert Alexander/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The records were posted to the National Archives’ website,
Trump again assails federal judge at center of deportation flight controversy
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is lashing out again against the top federal judge of the Washington, D.C. circuit, who issued an order stopping deportation flights of alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies