(CHICAGO) -- The Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force took Xavier L. Tate Jr. into custody on suspicion of the murder of Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca.Tate Jr. was found Wednesday night in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, police said.The 30-year-old officer was still…
(MT. HOREB, Wis.) -- A 14-year-old suspect is dead following a confrontation with police Wednesday after an active shooter was reported outside a Wisconsin middle school, sources told ABC News.The teen had approached Mount Horeb Middle School with what appeared to be a long gun, the sources said.A vehicle associated…
(PHOENIX) -- The Arizona Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal a strict, Civil War-era abortion ban that was recently ruled enforceable by the state Supreme Court.Two Republican senators, T.J. Shope and Shawnna Bolick, joined the 14 Democrats in the minority and the bill passed 16-14, over vocal GOP objection.Ahead of…
(NEW YORK) -- A British man who wreaked havoc on a United Airlines flight, forcing the flight crew to divert their landing location, must pay over $20,000 to the airline, prosecutors announced.The charges stem from a March 1 flight that departed from London, when passenger Alexander Michael Dominic MacDonald, 30,…
(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be retried "sometime after Labor Day," a judge said Wednesday, as the disgraced film mogul appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the first time since the New York Court of Appeals threw out his rape conviction.Court officers wheeled Weinstein's wheelchair into and…
(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, postponing highly anticipated rate cuts as elevated inflation continues to burden U.S. households.The announcement arrives days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off.The slowdown has coincided with a months-long stretch of…
(NEW YORK) -- Protests at Columbia University against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been allegedly "co-opted" by what New York City police officials described as professional outside agitators bent on sowing chaos and violence.Top police brass in New York said at a news conference Wednesday that protesters unaffiliated with…
(WASHINGTON)-- Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to numerous federal crimes after leaking sensitive information online, will now face military criminal proceedings next month for alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to an Air Force spokesperson."Following close coordination with the Department of Justice,…
(NEW YORK) -- A Los Angeles-based attorney who represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal explained to jurors how he brokered a pair of deals to keep their alleged affairs with Donald Trump out of print, claiming that he interpreted the "catch-and-kill" schemes as a mechanism to protect Trump from…
(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court overturned his sex crimes conviction.He is scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court in the first step toward a possible retrial after the New York Court…