Michael Cohen takes the stand in hush money trial
ABC News' Olivia Rubin and former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Saland break down Michael Cohen's testimony in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
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Good Morning AmericaOver 130 killed in 2 weeks as fighting intensifies in major Sudanese city, aid group says
At least 134 people have been killed and another 979 have been wounded since May 10 as fighting intensifies between Sudan's military and a powerful Sudanese paramilitary force in a major city of the country's northwestern Darfur region, according to an international aid group. Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, said Sunday that the casualties were all recorded at a single hospital in el-Fasher, the provincial capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state.
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Trump trial live updates: Jury to hear closing arguments
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election. Former President Trump is expected to be joined by a number of his children for today's critical day in court.
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Nicole Brown Simpson's sisters share 'complicated' reaction to OJ Simpson's death ahead of 30-year anniversary of murders
Nicole Brown was 18 years old, working as a waitress and planning to study photography when she met her future husband, O.J. Simpson. The family said Simpson's rage continued after the couple's divorce in 1992 and up until Brown Simpson's murder in 1994. Next month -- June 12 -- will mark 30 years since Brown Simpson, 35, and Ron Goldman, 25, were brutally stabbed to death outside Brown Simpson's home.
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As Trump hush money trial draws to a close, jury instructions to play key role
The criminal hush money trial against former President Donald Trump is drawing to a close, with deliberations expected to begin as early as Wednesday. The charging -- or as it's also known, instructing -- of the jury is a standard procedural step in any jury trial, during which the judge advises jurors on how they should go about reaching their verdict. Jurors are instructed on how to apply these guidelines to the evidence presented during trial -- which in this case, includes the testimony of 20 witnesses and over 250 exhibits -- to determine whether the prosecution has proven their case against the defendant.
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Company that posted discriminatory 'whites only' job ad settles with federal government
A company that posted a discriminatory job advertisement seeking only white candidates has been fined by the federal government and come to separate agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Labor as punishment, according to officials. Arthur Grand Technologies, an information technology services firm based in Virginia posted a discriminatory job advertisement in March 2023 that restricted eligible candidates to “only US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates],” according to a statement from the United States Department of Justice released on Thursday. “An investigation by OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) determined that, in April 2023, Arthur Grand Technologies advertised an opening for a business analyst position with its sales and insurance claims team in Dallas on a public online hiring website,” the Department of Justice said in their statement.
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Closing arguments to begin in Trump hush money trial
Thirty-six days ago, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office set out to convince a jury of twelve New Yorkers that Donald Trump broke the law by hiding damaging information from voters. During closing arguments Tuesday, they'll attempt to convince that jury to convict the former president on 34 felony counts -- a historic decision in what could be the only one of Trump's criminal cases that reaches a verdict before the 2024 election. Prosecutors built their case across four weeks of testimony, calling 20 witnesses including Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress whose hush money payment sits at the center of the case; Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer who made the payment to Daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election; and multiple Trump Organization employees who helped orchestrate Cohen's alleged reimbursement in 2017.
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Father and teenage son drown as dad tries to rescue him from lake
A father and his teenage son have drowned at a lake in Virginia after the child’s father tried to rescue him, according to authorities. Both of the victims were subsequently transported to the Office of the Medical Examiner in Richmond for examination.
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'General Hospital' actor Johnny Wactor dies at 37 after being shot in Los Angeles
"General Hospital" actor Johnny Wactor, who was known for playing Brando Corbin in the beloved ABC soap opera, died after being shot on Saturday. Wactor was shot after he interrupted three male suspects who were allegedly attempting to remove a catalytic converter from his vehicle, his mother, Scarlett Wactor, told KABC-TV Los Angeles. The incident happened around 3:25 am PT on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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2 inmates on the run after escaping Louisiana jail, police say
Police in Louisiana said Monday they caught two of the four inmates who escaped from jail over the weekend, unbeknownst to the guards who were supposed to be watching them. Omarion Hookfin, 19; Avery Guidry, 19; Jamarcus Cyprian, 20, and Travon Johnson, 21, who were all incarcerated at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail, escaped through a weak portion of the jail's chain-linked fence on Saturday and Sunday, Chief Jimmy Travis of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office told reporters during a news conference Monday. The jail's officials did not know about the breakouts until they received a phone call Sunday afternoon from a family member of one of the escapees, Travis said.
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Israel-Gaza live updates: Netanyahu calls strike on Rafah that killed 50 a 'tragic mishap'
As the Israel-Hamas war crosses the seven-month mark, negotiations are apparently stalled to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, and Israeli forces continue to launch incursions in the southern Gazan town of Rafah ahead of a possible large-scale invasion. The Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, one of its largest, announced that the hospital had been out of service due to the expansion of the Israeli military operation on the city and the repeated and deliberate targeting of the hospital's vicinity, hospital's director Suhaib Al-Hams said Sunday. The Israeli occupation repeatedly targeted the hospital, the most recent of which was targeting the hospital gate, which led to the death of two of the staff working there, as well as the injury of five members of the medical staff in a previous targeting, Al-Hams said in a press statement received by Sanad News Agency.
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Mike Tyson 'doing great' after suffering mid-flight medical issue
Famed boxer Mike Tyson, 57, suffered a medical scare onboard a flight from Miami to Los Angeles over the weekend. The Hall of Fame fighter is "doing great," according to representatives for Tyson. The incident on Sunday occurred mere minutes before landing, according to Tyson's representatives.
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Basketball legend Bill Walton dead at 71
Bill Walton, the legendary basketball player and sportscaster, died Monday at 71, according to the NBA. The two-time NBA champion -- first for the Portland Trail Blazers in 1977, and then for the Boston Celtics in 1986 -- died of cancer and was surrounded by family, the NBA said. Standing at 6 feet, 11 inches tall, topped off with a mop of red hair and an encyclopedic knowledge of ‘60s counterculture, few athletes have ever stood out as much as Walton -- and that was before he stepped on the basketball court.
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Memorial Day weather: Rain along the East Coast and scorching heat in the Gulf
At least 70 million Americans were under severe weather alerts, including flooding and tornado watches, on Memorial Day. Severe weather is expected to move into the East Coast's I-95 corridor, bringing with it damaging winds, hail and maybe even a few tornadoes. Sunday was the most active weather day so far this year, with at least 576 severe storm reports.
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Ahead of summations in Trump trial, here's a brief look at what every witness said on the stand
Over the last five weeks, the jury in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial witnessed a marathon of testimony. Among the 22 witnesses who took the stand, jurors heard from Trump's former lawyer, an adult film actress, two of Trump's executive assistants, a tabloid executive, a top White House aide, and a flurry of custodial witnesses as prosecutors sought to show that Trump falsified business records to hide the reimbursement of a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to boost Trump's electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
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Kilauea, active Hawaiian volcano, could erupt like a 'stomp-rocket toy,' new study suggests
Scientists may have found the mechanism behind the unusual explosive eruptions seen at one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Kilauea, located at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, experienced at least a dozen instances in 2018 when lava was spewing from the crater like a "stomp-rocket toy," a children's toy that involves launching a rocket into the air after stomping on the release mechanism, according to a paper published Monday in Nature Geosciences. The unusual eruption behavior likely contributed to the severity of that lava flow that year that destroyed more than 600 properties, Josh Crozier, a geologist at Stanford University and lead researcher of the study, told ABC News.
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Trump says he 'would have absolutely gotten' Libertarian Party nomination if he could have run, slams RFK Jr.
Former President Donald Trump claimed he would have "absolutely" gotten the Libertarian Party convention nomination for president, if not for already being the presumptive GOP nominee. In a statement on Sunday, following an appearance at the party's convention on Saturday, Trump noted the "enthusiasm" of the crowd, where he received a mixed response that included audible booing. "Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes," Trump continued.
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As tornado season ramps up, more people are turning to private home shelters to survive
When a powerful EF-4 tornado ripped through Greenfield, Iowa, last week, TJ Oder, the chief of the town's volunteer fire department, said his house took a direct hit. Oder said that when the twister struck, he was helping to prepare a triage center to treat injured neighbors and get them to hospitals while his family members were hunkered down in his personal shelter. At least four people were killed and 35 were injured in the Greenfield twister, but throughout the area, many lives were saved due to people being close to a public shelter as the twister bore down or having one like Oder just steps away in their own home, officials said.
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Ayesha Curry and Steph Curry welcome their 4th child: 'So grateful'
Ayesha and Stephen Curry announced the arrival of their fourth child. In a joint Instagram post on Sunday, the couple shared a photo of the new addition to their family, alongside the baby boy's name, Caius Chai, who was born on May 11. Celebrity friends and followers flocked to the comment section to celebrate the news including Hailey Bieber, Justin Timberlake and Winnie Harlow, among others.
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PGA winner Grayson Murray, 30, died by suicide, family says
Professional golfer and PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died by suicide on Saturday morning at 30 years old, according to his family and PGA officials. "We have spent the last 24 hours trying to come to terms with the fact that our son is gone," Eric and Terry Murray said in a statement Sunday shared by the PGA. Life wasn’t always easy for Grayson, and although he took his own life, we know he rests peacefully now.
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Richard M. Sherman, 'Mary Poppins' and 'It's a Small World' songwriter, dies at 95
Disney songwriting legend Richard M. Sherman, remembered for "Mary Poppins" and "It's a Small World," among many others, has died at 95 years old, the Walt Disney Company announced Saturday. One half of the Academy Award-winning duo with his brother, the late Robert B. Sherman, Richard is remembered as a "prolific composer-lyricist" and a "key member of Walt Disney's inner circle of creative talents," the company said in a press release. "Richard Sherman was the embodiment of what it means to be a Disney Legend, creating along with his brother Robert the beloved classics that have become a cherished part of the soundtrack of our lives," said Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company.