How Supreme Court’s immunity ruling could impact Trump’s criminal cases
ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos speaks with legal analyst Kim Wehle about how the Court’s ruling may shape Trump’s appeal in his New York hush money trial and other upcoming cases.
ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos speaks with legal analyst Kim Wehle about how the Court’s ruling may shape Trump’s appeal in his New York hush money trial and other upcoming cases.
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.
Vice President Kamala Harris has enough Democratic Party delegate votes in a virtual roll call to 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.
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.
Britney Spears' life is getting the musical biopic treatment. Jon M. Chu, the filmmaker behind "Crazy Rich Asians" and the forthcoming "Wicked" adaptation, is attached to direct the film, with producer Marc Platt developing. Spears first shared news of a project in the works on her social media on Thursday.
A disturbance near Haiti is taking aim at Florida and could strengthen to a tropical depression or tropical storm this weekend. It has a 60% chance of developing into a named storm over the weekend and a 90% chance of developing into a named storm over the next seven days. If this strengthens to a named storm, it would be called Debby.
Good news, polling fans: 538 now has polling averages for the new presidential matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. As of Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern, our average of national polls says Harris has the support of 45.0 percent of voters, while Trump garners 43.5 percent.
A weaker-than-expected jobs report on Friday fueled concern about a potential economic recession and calls for an interest rate cut. Employers hired 114,000 workers last month, falling well short of economist expectations of 185,000 jobs, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed. The cooldown of the job market foretells a possible economic downturn and bolsters the case for an interest rate cut at the Federal Reserve’s next meeting in September, analysts told ABC News.
Carrie Underwood is opening up about her return to "American Idol" as the show's newest judge, telling "Good Morning America" it "feels like going home." Underwood famously competed on -- and won -- season 4 of "American Idol" in 2005, kicking off an iconic career for the country music superstar. "I feel like being on both sides of the coin, I'll be able to hopefully offer some insight and help and kind of offer a different viewpoint," she said of how her experience will help her as a judge.
WNBA star Brittney Griner, who spent 10 months detained in Russia, said she is "head over heels" after the release of Americans Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, who were freed from Russia in a prisoner swap. "Great day," Griner said from Paris, where she is competing in women's basketball for Team USA at the Olympics.
This year's U.S. Olympic team has a star-studded cast of LGBTQ athletes headed to Paris. At least 29 competitors are prepared to take on the international games, according to a database compiled by LGBTQ news outlet OutSports. OutSports recorded at least 151 LGBTQ athletes representing countries around the world that are set to take up the competition in Paris.
Sha'Carri Richardson is heading to Paris for her first Olympic Games. Richardson’s triumphant path to the international games hasn’t always been smooth, stunted by personal and professional hurdles that held her back from the Tokyo Olympic games. In 2019, Richardson broke two world records in the under-20 athletics age category at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships.
Taylor Swift fans have a blank space on their ballots this year, and they're ready to write Kamala Harris' name. Swifties for Kamala -- a grassroots group of Taylor Swift superfans working to get Harris elected -- has quickly amassed a groundswell of support. The group got its start the same day President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, after Emerald Medrano, a 22-year-old fan from Texas, decided he and his fellow Swifties needed to jump into the action.