20-year-old mother, infant killed in drive-by shooting in Connecticut
Hartford Police Department(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- Police are searching for a man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old mother and her 4-month-old son while they were sitting in their car in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, in what appears to be a dr...
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Convicted Jan. 6 rioter now found guilty of plotting to kill FBI agents
Blount County Sheriff's Office(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) -- A convicted Jan. 6 rioter has now been found guilty of plotting to murder FBI agents who were investigating the Capitol insurrection.Edward Kelley, 35, was convicted Wednesday in the federal case agai...
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This top American college is going tuition-free for families making less than $200K
Adam Glanzman/Getty Images(MASSACHUSETTS) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that students with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend the Cambridge institution tuition-free starting next fall.The bulk of Ame...
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4 University of Rochester students arrested over antisemitic 'Wanted' posters
Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) -- Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic "Wanted" posters found on campus.The posters w...
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Questions loom about TikTok as Trump's cabinet comes into shape
CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States -- and some of his cabinet ap...
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Laken Riley case: Suspect found guilty by judge in campus killing, sentenced to life
ABC News(ATHENS, Ga.) -- The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus was found guilty by a judge on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder.He was sentenced by the judge to life in prison ...
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Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities'
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) -- Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation.In a letter...
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Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say
Ismail Sen/Anadolu via Getty Images(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery.Barber used data from NA...
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Trump seeks dismissal of hush money conviction on immunity grounds
Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC(NEW YORK) -- President-elect Donald Trump's criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed "to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power," Trump's defense attorneys argued Wednesday in a letter t...
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Exclusive: Death row inmate Melissa Lucio speaks out after judge finds her 'innocent' in daughter's death
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking out in an exclusive statement and audio recording to ABC News for the first time since&...
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