ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Christian Aid Ministry member Austin Smucker about his harrowing experience surviving a kidnapping in Haiti.
A fourth-grade teacher and a 10-year-old boy were among those killed in a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, ABC News has learned. At least 19 children and two teachers were killed after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The alleged gunman -- identified by officials as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School -- is dead, authorities said.
At least 19 children and two teachers are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The 18-year-old suspect, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, Gov. Greg Abbott said. Abbott said the suspect "shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensibly" more than a dozen students and a teacher.
Amanda Gorman is putting a spotlight on gun violence after 18 children and 2 adults were killed in a shooting at a Texas elementary school. The 24-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate and author of “The Hill We Climb" took to Twitter following Tuesday’s tragedy with a poem.
A United Airlines employee was fired and a former NFL player was arrested following a physical altercation at Newark Liberty International Airport last week. Brendan Langley, former player for the Denver Broncos, was charged with simple assault and released on his own recognizance following the incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The fight broke out after the United employee asked Langley to return a wheelchair he was using to carry his luggage, sources told ABC News.
With the U.S. still reeling from the mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store not even two weeks ago, President Joe Biden addressed Americans in the terrible wake of Tuesday's shooting at a Texas elementary school that left at least 18 young children dead. A clearly emotional Biden spoke to the nation from the White House Roosevelt Room about an hour after arriving back from a five-day trip to Asia and about two hours after ordering, from Air Force One, that the flag flying above the White House be lowered to half-staff. "I’d hoped, when I became president, I would not have to do this again," Biden began.
Every single mass shooting in America is not just a tragedy, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy said, it is a political -- a moral -- failing by the country's leaders who must choose anew after each killing to do nothing about the violence. "What are we doing?" Murphy asked the chamber, repeating the question several times throughout his speech, for dramatic effect. "There have been more mass shootings than days in the year," he said.
Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to take some much needed time to reflect, recharge and indulge in a little retail therapy. While this year's holiday falls on May 30, lots of fashion and beauty retailers have already started rolling out major deals and steals on everything from summer dresses to big name beauty favorites. If you're not sure where to start, "GMA" has compiled a easy-to-follow shopping guide of best Memorial Day sales on clothing and cosmetics below.
Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager to Donald Trump, sat down with “The View” co-hosts on Tuesday to discuss her new memoir, her husband’s attacks on then-President Trump and a moment with the former president that she says left her heartbroken. When Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Conway, who served as Trump’s campaign manager and would become one of his longest-serving aides, became the first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign in America. While she helped lead Trump to victory in 2016, Conway didn't take on his 2020 campaign.
Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who has been detained in a Russian prison for nearly 100 days, spoke for the first time on Tuesday in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." Griner told "GMA" co-anchor Robin Roberts that the support her wife has gotten from the league has brought the WNBA star "comfort" amid her detention in Russia. The WNBA, which kicked off its 2022 season on May 6, is honoring Griner with a floor decal bearing her initials and jersey number (42) on the sideline of all 12 WNBA teams.
Victims and families of victims of the November Oxford school shooting in Michigan filed a lawsuit against the Oxford school district and school administrators, accusing them of violating legally mandated school safety policies and of violating students' constitutional rights. The lawsuit accused administrators of failing to notify law enforcement of the actions of the accused shooter leading up to the shooting. Administrators named in the lawsuit include Superintendent Timothy Throne, principal Steven Wolf, dean of students Nicholas Ejak, student counselor Shawn Hopkins, Superintendent Kenneth Weaver and four teachers, including the teacher who caught the alleged shooter looking at ammunition for his gun online while in class.
A blue-ribbon commission has recommended new names for nine Army bases named after Confederate leaders, including Fort Bragg, which will be recommended to be renamed Fort Liberty, the panel disclosed Tuesday. The panel has recommended that another eight Army bases be renamed for a diverse group of individuals with ties to the Army. ABC News was first to report the full list of recommended names by the Congressional Naming Commission created by Congress to suggest name changes by 2023 for U.S. military installations named after Confederate generals and leaders.
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, said the damning independent investigative report on sex abuse allegations is "long overdue." "The rumors were always out there that these things were happening," Litton said on ABC News Live on Tuesday. The report, conducted by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, found the denomination's top leaders ignored sexual abuse allegations and disparaged survivors for more than two decades.
At least 18 students and two adults are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday. The 18-year-old suspect, who is also dead, was a student at Uvalde High School, according to Abbott. In the wake of the deadly mass shooting, many parents are left grappling with how to explain the horrific act of gun violence -- at a setting where most kids spend a majority of their days -- to their children and teens.
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday the state attorney general can pursue a civil lawsuit that accused Exxon Mobil of misleading investors about its products and their impact on the climate. The unanimous opinion, written by Associate Justice Scott Kafker, rejected Exxon Mobil’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit on grounds it violated a state law that protects the company from lawsuits meant to silence Exxon Mobil’s public advocacy on energy policy. The opinion said the so-called anti-SLAPP law in Massachusetts does not apply to the attorney general.
An Ohio man was charged with aiding and abetting a plot to kill former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, an Iraqi citizen who lived in Columbus, was arrested early Tuesday by the FBI. Shihab allegedly exchanged money with an undercover informant working for the FBI in an attempt to bring foreign individuals into the U.S. in order to carry out the assassination.
The proposed settlement reached nearly a year after the catastrophic Surfside building collapse along the South Florida coast now exceeds the billion-dollar mark, attorneys said Tuesday. During a court hearing in Miami Tuesday morning, attorney Harley Tropin announced the settlement reached for families who lost loved ones in the Champlain Towers South collapse has reached $1,004,600,000, up from the $997 million figure announced earlier this month. Tropin said that some additional lawsuits connected to the collapse have been mediated through the main settlement, resulting in additional payouts.
Stacey Abrams, a Black Democrat running for Georgia governor, declined on Tuesday to directly comment on Republican David Perdue saying she should "go back to where she came from." "No, not at all," Abrams, said at a news conference in Atlanta, when asked by ABC News whether she wanted to respond to what was widely labeled as racist remarks from Perdue on Monday night while giving a campaign speech in which he also charged she was "demeaning her own race." "I will say this," Abrams told ABC News at Tuesday's press conference.
President Joe Biden tried to clean up his own comments about the U.S. defending Taiwan "militarily" if China were to invade the island, telling reporters Tuesday during his last day in Asia that U.S. "policy has not changed at all." To critics, the comments are making an already tense situation more unpredictable and worse, but to proponents, including Republican lawmakers who have otherwise criticized Biden's foreign policy, it's a stronger U.S. policy that's necessary to send a message to Beijing.
The power of former President Donald Trump's endorsement and lasting influence over Republican midterm voters faces its biggest test yet on Tuesday in Georgia, where Trump and his former vice president are on opposite sides in a significant statewide race and where Trump's "big lie" is effectively on the ballot. Incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, are defending their offices from challengers -- but also from their most vocal critic, Trump, since both men resisted his pressure in 2020 to overturn President Joe Biden's victory, in a state where three audits confirmed Trump lost by more than 11,000 votes. Appearing to lay the groundwork for 2024, Trump has endorsed a slate of his loyalists who espouse his "big lie," including former GOP Sen. David Perdue, relentlessly attacking Kemp in the process as a "sellout" and "coward."
Reebok's latest release embodies all three. The athletic brand has partnered with online shoe retailer Zappos to release brand new adaptive shoes for individuals with disabilities. In an Instagram post introducing the line, the company shared that the goal of its latest Fit to Fit collection was to provide functional products that don't compromise style or performance.
