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Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- South Korea’s Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-Myung is hospitalized in an intensive care unit after going through surgery for internal jugular vein reconstruction on Tuesday, officials said. Only one person a day can visit the patient, therefore no further information about his health status is available, but he is conscious, according to Democratic Party officials. Lee was attacked in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday, according to t...

William Hutchinson/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence officer sentenced to military prison for one of the biggest classified material leaks in U.S. history, spoke out during a New Years Day performance at a poetry event in New York City about the year she spent in solitary confinement. The 36-year-old anti-secrecy activist and whistleblower spoke Monday night at the Poetry Projects 50th Annual New Years Day Marathon at New York Citys St. Marks in-the-Bowery, tell...

Moodboard/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mortgage rates have plummeted in recent weeks, boosting the prospects of homebuyers previously stifled by high borrowing costs. Many forecasters predict mortgage rates will drop further, however, since the Federal Reserve expects to cut its benchmark interest rate this year. Those circumstances pose a quandary for buyers: Jump into a newly attractive market that promises thousands of dollars in gains or wait for the possibility of an even more favorable one. H...

Gary S Chapman/Getty Images(TOKYO and LONDON) -- At least four people have died after a powerful earthquake struck Japans west coast on Monday afternoon, officials said. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck at about 4:10 p.m. local time, with its epicenter on the Noto Peninsula, along the Sea of Japan, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it measured the quake at a preliminary magnitude at 7.6, adding there had also been more 100 jolt...

KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Ten people were shot, two fatally, during a New Years party in downtown Los Angeles, police said. The shooting occurred Monday around 1 a.m. local time at an unsanctioned warehouse party, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. Two victims died at the scene and eight others were transported to area hospitals in various conditions, police told KABC. Most of the injured victims self-transported to the hospital, police said. No furt...

Warner Bros.Wonka sweetened its North American box office haul with an additional $22.7 million between Friday and Sunday, and is expected to reach an estimated $29.5 million for the long New Years weekend. That brings the Timothée Chalamet-led movies three-week domestic gross to $140.2 million and around $400 million worldwide. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom took second place, grabbing an $18.3 million over the three-day weekend and an estimated $23.5 million from Friday through Monday, bring...

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some hospitals across the United States are reinstating indoor masking rules amid rising cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza. Hospitals in at least six states -- California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin -- have put masking guidelines in place, according to an ABC News count. Over the weekend, Mass General Brigham, which is the largest health system in Massachuse...

Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trumps legal team as early as Tuesday could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the GOP primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. Trumps team has already said it intends to appeal the decision, which said that Trump violated Section 3 of ...

CEO Elon Musk attends the Atreju political meeting organised by the young militants of Italian right wing party Brothers of Italy - CREDIT: Future Publishing/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Days after Elon Musk bought X for $44 billion last year, he strolled through the glass doors at company headquarters carrying a kitchen sink. "Let that sink in," he said. Now, Musk faces a difficult reality of his own: A sharp decline in the value of X totaling tens of billions of dollars in losses. The ...

Philip Waller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 39-year-old man has died following a shark "encounter" at Mauis Paia Bay, officials said. The Maui Police Department said it responded to the beach around 11:19 a.m. local time Saturday. "Upon arrival, Ocean Safety Officers were transporting a male who sustained injuries from a shark encounter via jet ski to shore," officials said in a statement. "Once onshore, life-saving measures were performed by first responder personnel unti...