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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Special counsel David Weiss has indicted an FBI confidential source who provided derogatory information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden on felony false statement and obstruction charges. Weiss indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, on one count of making a false statement and one count of creating a false and fictitious record related to statements he made to the FBI on a document known as an FBI Form 1023. Charging documents released on ...

David Eulitt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Despite hundreds of police officers being on the scene of the Chiefs Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City, Missouri, a mass shooting erupted, raising the question of how the tragedy could change security preparations at mass gatherings around the country. One person was shot dead and 22 others were injured in what appears to have stemmed from a dispute, police said Thursday. At least half of those injured were under the age of 16, authorities said.  Thre...

Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images(TEL AVIV and LONDON) -- Before war erupted between Israel and Hamas in October, the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was home to around 250,000 people. Now, the population has swelled to an estimated 1.4 million, according to the United Nations, and residents are living in fear of a potentially major Israeli military ground operation on the horizon. Rafah has been earmarked as the next area to be targeted by Israeli ground forces, similar to what has ...

Penpak Ngamsathain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over the last several years, isolated outbreaks of measles have been popping up across the United States. Most recently, between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed cases of measles with infections reported in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Washington, D.C. area. Emergency medicine physicians and departments have to relearn how to rapidly detect and diagnose a disease that many have never had to treat before, only...

Courtesy of Ali Zacharias/Teffiney Worthy(LOS ANGELES) -- Ali Zacharias said she has such a bond with her French bulldog Onyx that she went to extremes when the 1-year-old pup was snatched last month. Zacharias told "Nightline" that she was completely caught off guard when the dognapper allegedly took Onyx while Zacharias was eating lunch in downtown Los Angeles and put the bulldog in a car. But at that moment, which was caught on camera and went viral, she said she went into guardian...

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first medication to treat severe frostbite on Wednesday. Aurlumyn, manufactured by Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc., is an injection to treat severe frostbite in adults to reduce the risk of finger or toe amputation. "This approval provides patients with the first-ever treatment option for severe frostbite," Dr. Norman Stockbridge, director of the division of cardi...

Alyssa Moran/HuluAmy Schumer’s Hulu series Life & Beth returns for season 2 on Friday, and it’s once again showing how the awkwardness of life can make poignant comedy. Schumer spoke to ABC Audio about the journey her character, Beth, takes over the 10 episodes in this sophomore season. “Seeing someone navigate going from dating to marriage, and pregnancy, is very rich territory that we were excited to explore this season,” Schumer said. The season will also dive deeper into the lives ...

David Barnes appears in a courtroom for sentencing, Feb. 13, 2024, in Moscow. (Anastasia Bagaeva/ABC News)(MOSCOW) -- On Tuesday David Barnes of Texas became the latest American to be convicted and sentenced in a Russian court on what experts say are trumped-up charges with little evidence. Svetlana Koptyaeva, Barnes ex-wife and a Russian national, accused him of sexually abusing their two sons between 2014 and 2018. Barnes denied the claims and Texas authorities found insufficient evidence t...

Joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Special counsel Jack Smith filed a brief Wednesday urging the Supreme Court to deny former President Donald Trumps request to stay his federal election subversion case from moving forward as Trump appeals his claim that he should be immune from prosecution. In the filing, Smith requested if the Supreme Court does intend to hear Trumps appeal that they grant the review now and go into an expedited briefing schedule that would have them issue their ruli...

ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of striking workers in the U.S. more than doubled last year due to massive work stoppages carried out by autoworkers, nurses and Hollywood writers and actors, according to a study released by Cornell University on Thursday. The total number of striking workers climbed 141% in 2023, amounting to nearly 540,000 workers who walked off the job, the report found. "This rise in strike action after many years of diminished activity indicate...