Supreme Court gives Trump broad immunity in Jan. 6 case
In a 6-3 ruling divided along ideological lines, the justices have decided that former presidents are entitled to immunity for "core official acts.
In a 6-3 ruling divided along ideological lines, the justices have decided that former presidents are entitled to immunity for "core official acts.
Four years ago, he was the millennial mayor of one of the smallest cities in America, and now Pete Buttigieg is being eyed as a possible running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris. Buttigieg worked for a consulting firm after graduating from Oxford, taking a year off in 2008 to work on the campaign staff for Jill Long Thompson's bid for Indiana governor.
There may have been radio traffic from local police that the Secret Service didn't have access to that could’ve proved crucial to stopping former President Donald Trump from going on stage the day of the assassination attempt, the acting director of the Secret Service said Friday. "It was so apparent to me that in this incident, in the final 30 seconds, which has been the focus of what happened before the assailant opened fire, there was clearly radio transmissions that may have happened on that local radio net that we did not have," acting Director Ronald Rowe said at a news conference. Rowe said the shooting was a Secret Service failure alone.
Excitement is building as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate selection announcement nears -- with the process now resting in her own hands as of Friday, a person familiar tells ABC News. The vetting, led by former Attorney General Eric Holder and his team at the Covington and Burling law firm, has concluded and the process has been turned over to Harris, the source said. Harris is expected to announce her pick by Tuesday evening, when she and her running mate will appear together for a rally in Philadelphia, kicking off a multi-day blitz through battleground states.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will face sentencing for his three-count felony conviction on Nov. 13, just one week after the presidential election. For the three felony convictions, Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison -- though legal experts believe he will not serve time as a first-time and nonviolent offender. Hunter Biden had sought a new trial in the case, saying his "convictions should be vacated" because trial commenced before a circuit court formally issued a mandate denying one of his many pretrial appeals.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, accusing the social media giant of unlawfully collecting and retaining data from children in violation of United States privacy laws. The civil consumer protection complaint filed Friday in federal court in California accuses TikTok of collecting a "wide variety" of personal information from children who created accounts on the app dating back to 2019 through the present day. The department further alleges that even when children created accounts in TikTok's designated "Kids Mode," the company still unlawfully collected and retained children's email addresses and other personal information without notifying or getting consent from parents.
A North Carolina man has been arrested after he allegedly struck a Lowe's store employee with a sledgehammer and stole a drill set, police said. Aaron Deshown Willams, 25, has been arrested on warrants for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury and robbery with a dangerous weapon, according to the Durham Police Department. The Lowe's employee was helping Williams when he allegedly took a sledgehammer from his shopping cart and struck the employee in the head, according to police.
One month after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on presidential immunity, the judge overseeing former President Trump's federal election interference case now has jurisdiction over the case again. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is now likely to set a series of deadlines, including a potential status conference. The case has been stayed for seven months as Trump's legal team appealed presidential immunity all the way to the Supreme Court.
When Americans imprisoned in Russia returned to U.S. soil late Thursday, standing right there to greet them was the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. The vice president, along with President Joe Biden, who ended his own campaign and handed her the party baton, greeted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, among others on the Joint Base Andrews tarmac even before they embraced their families. The late-night scene underscored the diplomatic victory the White House had just scored -- and how it was putting Harris front and center as her nascent campaign launches, trying to enhance her credibility on the world stage against Donald Trump's attacks that she would be treated as a "play toy."
The tech-heavy Nasdaq had fared even worse, dropping more than 2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq had also seen double-digit increases. The selloff is concerning since it’s rooted in a labor market cooldown that may signal a wider economic downturn, investors told ABC News.
Vice President Kamala Harris has enough Democratic Party delegate votes in a virtual roll call to officially earn the party's nomination when the roll call ends Monday, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday. "I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday," Harrison said during a campaign update video call on Friday.
Former President Donald Trump failed to identify any new facts or circumstances that would justify his third attempt to have the judge overseeing his New York criminal hush money case recused, lawyers for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote in a court filing made public Friday. Prosecutors, in the filing, urged Judge Juan Merchan to deny Trump's third recusal motion, describing it as a "vexatious and frivolous attempt to relitigate" an issue that the court already decided twice. Earlier this week, defense lawyers asked Judge Merchan to step aside from the case because of an alleged conflict of interest between Vice President Kamala Harris and the judge's daughter.
Simone Biles has some new bling! After winning her second Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games this week -- her ninth overall -- she flashed a sparkly goat necklace, a nod to her record-breaking G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) status in women's gymnastics. Biles' necklace features a diamond pendant designed by Janet Heller Fine Jewelry.
Recent images released from NASA have revealed new information on the origins of the asteroid system. Nearly two years ago, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos, at about 14,000 miles per hour, testing a strategy to defend against a potential asteroid headed toward Earth. In a slate of studies published this week, NASA researchers have suggested that the mission did far more than accomplish its initial goal.
The murder trial for the suspect accused of killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus is expected to start in mid-November, a judge said Friday, as the defense is seeking to move the high-profile case to another county. Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard said jury selection would likely begin on Nov. 13, with the trial starting on Nov. 18. The suspect, Jose Ibarra, appeared in the Athens-Clarke County courtroom for the hearing Friday morning.
Merce Hershey, a mom of five, grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of 14, told "Good Morning America" she started going to the Starting Strength Cincinnati gym in West Chester, Ohio, two years ago when she was 95. When Hershey, who is about 4 feet, 10 inches tall, first started going to Starting Strength Cincinnati, gym owner Luke Schroeder told "GMA" she could rack pull 11 pounds and overhead press 5 pounds. Today, she trains twice a week with a coach and can rack pull up to 92 pounds and overhead press up to 35 pounds.
It's only August, but already the U.S. wildfire season has burned more than 4.4 million acres, up a staggering 278% from last year, the National Interagency Fire Center reported Thursday. Fueled by record high temperatures, including prolonged heat waves that have left many parts of the West with bone-dry vegetation, firefighters were battling 93 large active wildfires on Thursday in 13 states, including 28 fires that have prompted evacuations, according to the fire center. With precipitation in the West below normal for July, some of the largest fires in U.S. history have ignited, especially in California and Oregon where a combined 44 fires were burning on Thursday, according to the fire center.
The greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, took an apparent jab at former President Donald Trump early Friday, tweeting, "I love my black job," in response to a tweet about her winning the gold medal in the women's individual all-around hours earlier. Biles' tweet came in response to one from Ricky Davila, a singer and fan of the gymnast, who tweeted, "Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job." Both comments came after Trump used the term "Black jobs" during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference on Wednesday.
Former President Donald Trump has been using the wrongful detention of Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in Russia to criticize President Joe Biden for failing to bring them home, especially during his reelection campaign. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed on Thursday that there was no cash exchanged nor was there any sanctions relief, but in a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump questioned that denial without offering specifics. Trump has repeatedly made false claims that the U.S. has given Iran billions of dollars in cash.
Singer Justin Timberlake pleaded not guilty for a second time to charges stemming from his arrest for driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons in June. The singer, who has concerts on Saturday and Sunday in Antwerp, Belgium, appeared virtually on Friday in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court in New York. The next conference is scheduled for Aug. 9, but Timberlake does not have to appear.
Former President Donald Trump this week voiced an alarming claim about the alleged threat that immigrants pose to Black workers. "Coming from the border are millions and millions of people who happen to be taking Black jobs," Trump said at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. Trump has delivered the same dire warning about an immigrant threat to Black employment on multiple occasions throughout the 2024 campaign, including at a debate with President Joe Biden in June.