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Lou Rocco/ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Three women who served in the Trump White House are sounding the alarm on what a second Donald Trump term could mean for the country, with one saying it could "mean the end of American democracy as we know it." Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews sat down with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl to discuss their roles in speaking out against Trump in an interview that will ai...

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- From new vaccines to the first drugs of their kind for hard-to-treat disorders, 2023 has been a year full of medical breakthroughs. They offer opportunities for people to protect themselves from diseases, slow down the effects of others and even incorporate artificial intelligence into cancer diagnoses. Here are seven of the biggest innovations in the health and science space this year: New RSV vaccines and immunizations For the first time ever, after years o...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot. Bellows, a Democrat, issued her decision on three challenges brought by Maine voters, including three politicians, over the nomination petition of Trump for the GOP primary. Bellows upheld the two challenges that sought to bar Trump from the ballot based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. She rejected...

Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A New Jersey man motivated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel "devoted himself to waging violent jihad against America and its allies" and sought to join a foreign terror group, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday. Karrem Nasr, 23, was arrested in Kenya earlier this month and brought to New York to face charges of attempting to provide material support to al-Shabab, the Somalia-based terror group affiliated with al-Qaida. Nasr is expected...

OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images(KYIV and LONDON) -- Russias military struck cities across Ukraine overnight, sending waves of missiles and drones in an hourslong attack that Ukrainian officials said may be among the biggest since the war began nearly two years ago. The Ukrainian Air Force said its "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously." The aerial attack began at about 11 p.m. on Thursday and lasted for several hours. It included at least 122 missiles and 36 dron...

DisneyThis years edition of Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest is bigger than ever: In addition to Times Square and Hollywood, Ryan Seacrest and co-host Rita Ora will manage performances and countdowns from Puerto Rico, Miami, Las Vegas and South Korea. "I think the challenging part, honestly, is keeping it on time," Seacrest told ABC Audio. "Because with all the moving parts and all the live components and elements leading up to midnight, you kind of cant b...

Matteo Colombo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Wildfire smoke bathed New York Citys front-line workers in fumes, atmospheric rivers forced hundreds of thousands of California homes into darkness, and hurricane Idalia battered tourism in Florida. Natural disasters nationwide in 2023 focused attention on the life-or-death stakes of climate change but also underscored a grave risk of a different type: economic distress. A landmark report released by the federal government last month put a price tag on ex...

The heart wants what it wants, as the saying goes, and the same goes for Hollywood: Heres a timeline of the stars who wont be kissing their former significant others on New Years Eve: March After 12 years of marriage, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth announced in a now-deleted Instagram post that "with a great deal of care and consideration" they made the "difficult" decision to divorce. The Morning Show producer and Hollywood agent share one child together, 10-year-old son Te...

Pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. Heres how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Dec 28, 11:01 AM EST American-Israeli-Canadian hostage conf...

Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Much of the Northeast was soaked by heavy rainfall overnight and into Thursday morning, after daily records were set in several areas of Pennsylvania and Delaware on Wednesday. The heavy rain overnight targeted Philadelphia, New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. The bulk of the rain was moving fast enough that widespread flooding was not an issue, but pockets of torrential rain were leading to localized flash floodin...