The director of the latest "Star Wars" movie discusses the making of the much buzzed-about movie.
What began as a milestone marking adulthood ended in tragedy after a suspected gunman used the AR-15 style rifle he purchased days after he turned 18, authorities said. Uvalde High School student Salvador Ramos allegedly purchased two assault rifles just days after turning 18 and used them to carry out the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history -- all within a span of eight days, authorities said. Ramos was known for fighting and threatening fellow students, some classmates told ABC News.
Today is the day to get your hands on the sweet and salty snack collaboration from Ritz Crackers and Oreo that's only available online. "Over the past few years, RITZ has been exploring innovative partnerships and experiences to spark excitement around our iconic, buttery cracker," Ritz senior brand manager Alexis Yap said in a statement.
Former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must sit for a deposition as part of the New York attorney general's civil investigation into how the family real estate business valued its holdings, an appellate court ruled Thursday. Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump must also testify in the case. The judges rejected the Trump argument that the subpoena was part of a politically motivated investigation and precluded by a corresponding criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
A fourth-grade teacher, several sets of cousins and a 10-year-old boy whose family called him "the life of the party" 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.
Don McLean had been scheduled to perform at a concert in Houston this Saturday celebrating the 150th anniversary of the National Rifle Association, but the "American Pie" singer pulled out in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. McLean was one of the performers slated to appear during the organization's "Grand Ole Night Of Freedom" concert. "In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week," the "American Pie" singer said in a statement to "Good Morning America."
Several dogs were among the responders sent to Texas Wednesday, one day after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde, killing at least 19 children and two teachers. The trained animals are all part of Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) K-9 Ministries, a K-9 unit that travels across the U.S. to provide comfort and support to people impacted by disasters such as mass shootings. Eight of the group's canines, all golden retrievers, are dedicated to the Uvalde community.
Actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in the U.K., according to the Crown Prosecution Service. "The CPS has authorised criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men," Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said in a statement announcing the charges Thursday. The first accuser contends he was sexually assaulted by Spacey twice in London in March 2005.
BTS will be joining President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday, May 31, to celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month. The global K-pop sensation plans to address Asian inclusion, representation and anti-Asian discrimination amid a wave of anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. Between March 2020 and Dec. 31, 2021, the Asian advocacy organization Stop AAPI Hate has recorded more than 10,000 reports of hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) persons across the U.S.
From the Upside Down to the Great White Way: "Stranger Things" star Gaten Matarazzo is making his return to Broadway this summer. The 19-year-old actor will be playing the role of Jared Kleinman in the hit musical "Dear Evan Hansen." "Words could never express how truly honored I am to be a part of this company,” Matarazzo said in a statement obtained by "Good Morning America."
Playing the King of Rock & Roll did a number on Austin Butler, he says. The "Elvis" actor, 30, told British GQ that he was hospitalized in March last year and bedridden for a week after completing the film. "My body just started shutting down the day I finished Elvis," the actor told the outlet, explaining that he "woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain" and "was rushed to hospital."
Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional and politically-charged monologue to an empty studio at the top of Wednesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" following Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The mass shooting, now the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, left 19 third- and fourth-grade children and two teachers dead. "Here we are again, on another day of mourning in this country," Kimmel, 54, said to the camera in a taped segment that aired ahead of the episode.
Nearly a decade since a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, cut the lives of 20 children and six adults short, American families, parents, caregivers, teachers, and school staffers are grappling with yet another mass shooting. This week, it happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and at least 19 children and two adults died in the aftermath. It's a subject Andrea Burns has talked about with her fourth grade classes for the last eight years at an elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas.
In the hours and days after the horrifying school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, foreign governments around the world expressed their condolences to the American people. "In recent years, the Mexican government has carried out more and better actions to advance an agenda of arms control in the U.S. than the U.S. government can or wants to," Ximena Medellín Urquiaga, a professor of legal studies at Mexico's Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, tweeted Wednesday.
Amazon has expanded in many ways throughout the years, and now the e-commerce giant has launched a brick-and-mortar clothing store. The Amazon Style fashion retail space has opened at The Americana at Brand shopping mall in Los Angeles. "We organized and designed the store a bit differently," Amazon Style vice president Simoina Vasen told "Good Morning America."
Cook and writer Andy Baraghani's highly anticipated debut cookbook, "The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress," blends the home cooking of his Iranian upbringing with his professional training in restaurants, editorial experience at Bon Appetit and Saveur and his global travels to bring home cooks more than 120 everyday recipes. Baraghani joined "Good Morning America" Wednesday following the release of his book and shared two of his favorite dishes below. Baraghani then pivoted to food writing and test kitchen cooking before serving as a senior editor and viral video host.
An elementary school in Texas was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent United States history this week. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed Tuesday in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, law enforcement officials said. Seventeen people also suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting, which unfolded midday Tuesday when an alleged 18-year-old gunman opened fire at the school west of San Antonio, authorities said.
Gun control advocates are again calling on Texas lawmakers to restrict access to firearms after at least 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. The suspect, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, is also dead, authorities said. In Texas, where there are few restrictions on purchasing firearms, individuals who are 18 years or older are legally permitted to purchase long guns, which include shotguns and rifles.
The accused mass shooter who carried out the deadly attack at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, allegedly committed animal abuse and displayed videos of the cruelty to users on a social media platform, according to two users who spoke to ABC News. In some instances, the alleged animal abuse was committed in public and then posted for online viewing, and the 18-year-old suspect, Salvador Ramos, allegedly boasted about how he and his friends did it "all the time," according to one user. Ramos was killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers inside the Robb Elementary School after he allegedly killed 19 students and two faculty members.
The cries of parents learning that their children had been killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, reverberated from a local civic center late into the night on Tuesday. The shooting has opened fresh wounds across a nation still grieving from the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, just 10 days earlier. For Latinos in Texas, the grief cuts deeper.
The Texas school district where 19 children elementary school children and two adults were killed appeared to have security measures in place in the event of a school shooting, records show. Included in the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District preventative security measures plan were lockdown protocols, a system in place to report threats and bullying, threat assessment teams, as well as the monitoring of social media, according to school district documents featured on the school district's website. The school district also has its own police force with four officers and partners with local law enforcement, according to the document.
