High school grads race to fight fire
A group of high school students and volunteer firefighters raced into action to put out a fire minutes after they received their diplomas.
A group of high school students and volunteer firefighters raced into action to put out a fire minutes after they received their diplomas.
A Minneapolis police officer has died after they were "ambushed" while responding to a call about a shooting, officials said Thursday night. Officers from the Minneapolis Police Department responded to reports of a double shooting on the 2200 block of Blaisdell Ave. S., earlier Thursday, the department's assistant chief of operations, Katie Blackwell, told the media. Officer Jamal Mitchell died at the hospital, she said.
Donald Trump, the second-generation New York business mogul who led one of the most consequential right-wing populist movements and changed the face of presidential politics, was found guilty of 34 felonies in his home city Thursday, becoming the first president in American history to be criminally convicted. Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, faced four indictments as he geared up for the 2024 race. After the verdict was read, Trump railed against the judge, and called the trial "rigged [and] disgraceful."
Former President Donald Trump attended a fundraiser in Manhattan for his 2024 campaign on Thursday night, hours after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial. Trump's campaign immediately began fundraising off of his verdict, telling his supporters he had been convicted in a "rigged" trial. "I was just convicted in a RIGGED political Witch Hunt trial: I DID NOTHING WRONG!" read a fundraising email, which was sent out minutes after the former president left the courthouse.
A remarkable fossil finding in Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has led to a new dinosaur species being named by researchers: Musankwa sanyatiensis. The fossilized remains of the species' single hind leg, including its thigh, shin, and ankle bones were discovered embedded into a rock in the lake's shoreline, according to a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica on Thursday. Researchers say the remains date back to the Late Triassic period, approximately 210 million years ago.
It didn’t take long after a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial for Republicans to quickly jump to their presumptive presidential nominee’s defense. Speaker Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency and the top Republican on Capitol Hill, called it a “shameful day in American history.” The House leader, who also traveled to Manhattan to show his support for Trump at the courthouse earlier this month, went on to try to paint the proceeding as biased -- parroting unfounded claims from the former president himself that the justice system has been politically weaponized against him.
Natasha S. Alford took a part-time sabbatical from her job as a journalist at TheGrio and went back to school for a master's degree. Alford has also tried to stay on top of her physical health too, dealing with lupus, a long-term autoimmune disease. It all culminated Monday when Alford graduated from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs with a master's degree in public policy and a certificate in urban policy.
In a pioneering measure to hold companies responsible for environmental damage, Vermont has officially become the first state to make oil and gas giants shell out billions in climate change damage by law. Vermont's Climate Superfund Act, which parallels the Environmental Protection Agency's superfund program, mandates high-emission corporations -- such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron -- to be financially accountable for a portion of the costs of extreme weather damage in the state.
Adults could face civil and criminal penalties in Tennessee for helping minors get abortions under a new "abortion trafficking" law in the state. Adults could face consequences for transporting a minor to get an abortion even if it is in another state where abortion is legal. Tennessee already has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, prohibiting abortions at nearly all stages of pregnancy, with very limited exceptions.
Former President Donald Trump's vice presidential hopefuls were quick to defend the former president after a jury on Thursday found him guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York criminal trial. Several of the people who could potentially be Trump's running mate have denounced the case along the way, often echoing Trump's claims that the trial is a sham. After the verdict, they have been repeating Trump's claims that the justice system is being used as a political tool.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the "only voice that matters is the voice of the jury" after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a historic trial. "While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial, and ultimately today at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors -- by following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor," Bragg, whose office prosecuted the case, told reporters Thursday.
Donald Trump Jr., the former president's eldest child, was the first to come out in defense of his father just minutes after Donald Trump was found guilty in his hush money trial on Thursday, laying the blame at Trump's political rivals. The former president's middle son, Eric Trump, took to X to proclaim that Thursday's guilty verdict would signal a win for Trump in November. "May 30th, 2024 might be remembered as the day Donald J. Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election," Eric Trump wrote.
President Joe Biden will respond to the felony conviction of Donald Trump, possibly more forcefully than he has commented on his political rival's criminal cases in the past, as his campaign celebrates the guilty verdict, sources said. A direct response from Biden would mark a sharp reversal for the president who -- along with his campaign -- has only slightly needled Trump. In recent weeks, the president has indirectly joked about Trump's New York trial, saying in his debate challenge he heard Trump was "free on Wednesdays."
Former President Donald Trump called the hush money trial "rigged" while speaking outside the courthouse Thursday just moments after learning he was found guilty on 34 counts. "This was a disgrace," Trump told reporters. Referencing his failed petition to move the trial out of Manhattan, Trump continued, "They wouldn't give us a venue change," adding, "We were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area."
The National Transportation Safety Board said a cut to an inactive but still pressurized gas line will be a central focus of their investigation into what caused a devastating explosion that rocked downtown Youngstown, Ohio. The blast occurred near Central Square on Tuesday afternoon and impacted a building that contains a Chase bank and apartments. One person was killed and seven others injured in the explosion, officials said.
Scandals have swirled around former President Donald Trump since his first presidential campaign in 2016. At first glance, there's some evidence from polls that this conviction will meaningfully erode Trump's support. An April survey from CNN/SSRS found that, while 76 percent of Trump supporters said they would support Trump regardless, 24 percent said they "might reconsider" their support for him if he was convicted.
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) declared the city's recent outbreak of measles over on Thursday. CDPH said 42 days have passed -- two full incubation periods for measles -- without any new cases confirmed. On March 7, 2024, Chicago health officials confirmed the city's first measles case in five years.
In the violent game of football, Reggie Bush played with grace and grit. "It was always a dream of mine to play at the college football level," Bush told ABC News "Nightline's" Byron Pitts from his home in Southern California. The University of Southern California Trojans were on an epic run in the early 2000s, led by Bush, the two-time All-American running back.
A jury has found Chad Daybell guilty in the murders of his first wife and his second wife's two children in what prosecutors in Idaho said was a plot to pursue "money, power and sex." The verdict in the capital murder trial followed seven weeks of testimony and comes more than a year after Daybell's second wife, Lori Vallow, was also convicted of murdering her two youngest children -- Joshua "J.J." Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16 -- in a so-called doomsday plot. Prosecutors have said they plan to pursue the death penalty for the murder charges.
The U.S. Department of Labor filed a complaint against a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Alabama that allegedly employed a 13-year old child to work over 50 hours per week on an assembly line. The child was jointly employed by the Hyundai manufacturer, another auto parts manufacturer and a staffing agency, the complaint says. The agency is asking a court to prevent the three companies from employing children illegally, according to the complaint.
With the jury in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial currently deliberating, experts said there are several potential outcomes and disagree whether the prosecution proved its case. "It's been my experience in white-collar cases that even though defense attorneys try and keep their client off the stand -- because it more often than not hurts them rather than helps them -- I'm not sure he can help himself," Chris Timmons, a former prosecutor and ABC News legal contributor, said in an interview. The defense had left the door open for Trump to testify before ultimately not calling him to the stand.