New details from inside Brittney Griner’s court appearance in Russia
The WNBA star appeared in court for her trial on drug charges as the U.S. maintains she was wrongfully detained.
The WNBA star appeared in court for her trial on drug charges as the U.S. maintains she was wrongfully detained.
In the trailer, Ortega transforms into Wednesday Addams in the iconic character's black and white-collared dress and pigtails. The trailer then shows Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán as Morticia and Gomez Addams taking Wednesday to a new school, Nevermore Academy.
A Texas middle school student had quite the start to her first day of school after she opened her front door to see an alligator. Running back into the house, her father didn't believe her until he saw the gator, Mike Trinh wrote in a Facebook post. Trinh said he called Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office who then directed him to the Missouri City Police Department, who Trinh said then directed him to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which hadn't yet opened for the day.
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are enjoying what's left of summer on a family vacation with their two children. The "Frozen" actress, 42, shared a slideshow of Instagram photos on Tuesday featuring herself and husband Dax Shepard, as well as their daughters Lincoln, 9, and Delta, 7, enjoying the great outdoors on the Snake River in Swan Valley, Idaho. In the photos, the family is seen hiking, observing wildlife, horseback riding, swimming and rafting.
Rep. Liz Cheney is looking to turn her landslide loss in Wyoming's Republican primary Tuesday night into a nationwide crusade to keep Donald Trump out of the White House -- one she said Wednesday could include her running for president herself. Despite her six-year tenure in Congress now headed to a close, Cheney said her political work isn't done yet and is previewing what's to come next -- including a potential run for the presidency and an organization aimed at taking down Trump in 2024. Cheney's first hint at a presidential campaign came in her concession speech, in which she invoked President Abraham Lincoln as an example of patriotism and a champion of the Republican Party.
Wyoming's Republican voters got one step closer to picking their secretary of state on Tuesday in a primary matchup of candidates with opposing views on the 2020 election. ABC News reports that state Rep. Chuck Gray is projected to win the Republican nomination for secretary of state.
Zoë Kravitz says knew that she wanted her now-boyfriend Channing Tatum to star in her upcoming directorial debut, "P***y Island," even before she met him. In the upcoming thriller, Tatum will play a tech mogul who invites a cocktail waitress (Naomi Ackie) to his private island, where she soon finds that "there's more to this island than meets the eye." In a recent interview with WSJ Magazine, Kravitz explained that the script for the film, "was born out of a lot of anger and frustration around the lack of conversation about the treatment of women, specifically in industries that have a lot of money in them, like Hollywood, the tech world, all of that."
A Florida appeals court ruled on Monday that a 16-year-old girl was not "mature enough" to decide to terminate her pregnancy. The decision comes after a circuit judge in northwest Florida ruled that the teen could not get an abortion without notification and consent of a parent or guardian, despite the fact the teen has been found to be "parentless." The teen was requesting to bypass the Florida law that requires all individuals in the state under the age of 18 to receive parental consent before obtaining an abortion.
A battle between the University of Southern California and a group of its fraternities over new safety rules is playing out over the California campus this fall. Advocates who have been calling for schools to do more to curb sexual assaults, violence and underage drinking on college campuses say this could lead to a trend that further hampers student life. On Friday, the USC chapters of Kappa Alpha Order, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Beta Tau chose to sever their relationship with the school after it put in place new policies for school-sanctioned activities which include having security guards at parties, mandated ID scanners and a ban on large containers of alcohol such as kegs.
As Russia and Ukraine trade accusations over attacks on Europe's largest nuclear power plant, a worker there told ABC News he fears not only for the safety of his family but also the world. The Ukrainian man, who is an engineer at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant near the town of Enerhodar, said he plans to return to work soon out of a sense of duty to his country, despite his wife urging him to quit. Shortly after invading neighbouring Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russian troops stormed the Zaporizhzhia plant, on the banks of the Dnipro River in the country's southeast.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he'd consider testifying before the House Jan. 6 committee if asked, in some of his most specific comments yet on the prospect. Appearing at a "Politics & Eggs" breakfast in Manchester, New Hampshire, where presidential hopefuls often speak since the state holds the nation's first primary, Pence was asked if he'd be "agreeable" if the committee were to call on him to testify. "If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it," Pence responded.
Adrienne Bailon and her husband Israel Houghton have welcomed home a new bundle of joy. The couple announced on Instagram Tuesday that they welcomed a baby boy named Ever James via surrogate. "Ever James / For this child we have prayed / Just to hear our baby cry / Skin to skin and face to face / Heart to heart and eye to eye," the couple wrote in the caption of a shared post, alongside a heartwarming black and white photo of the trio snuggled in bed together.
Labor Day may be summer's last "hoorah" -- it's also a great time to score some blowout deals. Historically, Labor Day is known for deals on clearance summer apparel and outdoor furniture. Whether you are extremely ahead of holiday shopping or just striking while the iron is hot, "Good Morning America" rounded up some Labor Day sales to watch.
Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts, who was shot and partially paralyzed in the Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooting, still has a "very long and hard road" to recovery ahead of him, and he's feeling "hopeless, sad and angry as the reality of his life is setting in," his family said. Cooper was enjoying the 4th of July parade with his family when the gunfire broke out. Seven people were killed and Cooper was among dozens injured.
The Inflation Reduction Act, a $739 billion measure signed into law by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, levies a 15% minimum tax on large corporations and marks the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history. Meanwhile, the law will reduce the federal deficit by $305 billion over roughly the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. More immediately, however, the legislation will impact everyday Americans' wallets.
The World Health Organization renamed the two known clades, or lineages, of the monkeypox virus Monday. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the lineages will be referred to going forward using Roman numerals. Subsequent lineages will be named using Roman numerals for the clade and lowercase letters will be used for the subclade.
Former President Donald Trump isn't the first White House veteran to claim -- in the midst of a criminal probe looking at their handling of government secrets -- that the president can declassify almost anything he wants, whenever he wants, and however he wants. "If the president says to talk about [a] document, it is then a declassified document," the former chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told a federal grand jury in 2004. At the time, federal investigators were looking into the leak of the identity of a covert CIA operative -- but they were also interested in learning more about how parts of a classified document summarizing Iraq's purported efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in Africa had also become public.
Pyongyang has test-fired its missile system 19 times this year alone, including the latest launch of two cruise missiles Wednesday morning, as intelligence in the U.S. and South Korea has confirmed that North Korea is prepared to conduct its seventh nuclear test.
The planet continues to experience a massive loss in forest land as the world warms and allows severe wildfires to run rampant in regions spanning the globe. Overall, forest fires are getting worse worldwide, according to a new report released Wednesday by Global Forest Watch, a forest monitoring platform led by the World Resources Institute. The data captures stand-replacing fires, which kill all or most of the living overstory trees in a forest, and includes wildfires, escaped fires from human activities such as agriculture and hunting and intentionally set fires that result in tree cover loss.
Since the monkeypox vaccine began being distributed in New York City, the rollout has been plagued with issues. The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has cycled through several scheduling platforms in a matter of weeks, which have experienced crashes as people tried to book appointments. "My general thought about the rollout is that it is a hard situation," Dr. Dana Mazo, an infectious diseases specialist and clinical associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health, told ABC News.
Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is projected to have clinched on Tuesday one of four spots in November’s general election for an open House seat, ABC News reports. In the Alaska Top 4 House primary, ABC News can report that Palin, Republican Nick Begich, Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Tara Sweeney are projected to advance to the November general election. Political analysts mostly expected Palin, Peltola and Begich to advance, as all three are currently on the ballot for Alaska's special general election for the same House seat, which was held by the late Congressman Don Young, who passed away earlier this year.