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Angel Valentin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Declining species in rainforests around the world may have a second chance of survival due to artificial intelligence technology, experts told ABC News. Researchers from environment nonprofit Rainforest Connection and Google.org, the tech companys philanthropy branch, said they have found a way to use AI to monitor and conserve species in threatened ecosystems as rainforests bear the brunt of impacts from hazards like global warming, deforestation and de...

Aldo Pavan/Getty Images/STOCK(KORNIDZOR, Armenia) -- Over 100,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh as of Saturday, local authorities said, with it now appearing that virtually the entire Armenian population from the enclave will leave, abandoning their homes after Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, recaptured the region last week with a military offensive. About 85% of the population has now fled in less than a week, in what Armenia has condemned as "ethnic cleansing". E...

David McNew/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office filed a reply Friday evening to former President Trump’s opposition to the prosecutions proposed gag order in Trumps federal election interference case. Smiths office raises new concerns about Trumps recent public statements attacking prosecutors and other potential witnesses and also suggests he may have violated a law prohibiting people under felony indictment from purchasing firearms. "Since [the] date [the ...

Christopher Worrell -- FBI(WASHINGTON) -- The FBI has arrested a member of the Proud Boys who went missing just before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a spokesperson for the Collier County Sheriffs Office. "We can confirm the arrest of Christopher Worrell," the spokesperson told ABC News in a statement Thursday evening. "The FBI arrested him and the Collier County Sheriffs Office assisted." Worrell, a 52-year-old ...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SIMI VALLEY, Calif.) -- In an easily missed moment during Wednesday night’s chaotic GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would sign a federal 15-week abortion ban. Wednesdays comment marked the first time since the launch of his presidential campaign that he said he would sign a national abortion ban. The Daily Signal was the first to report and confirmed the governors remarks. The moment occurred during an exchange with Sen. Tim Scott, where ...

Jayk7/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. "Reality is setting in," Quintanilla, a 2021 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with over $26,000 in student loan debt, told Good Morning America. "It’s extraordinary stressful." As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one...

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Friday marks six months since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested and detained by Russian authorities on espionage charges, allegations that Gershkovich, the WSJ, the U.S. government and dozens of international news organizations have vehemently denied. Gershkovich remains behind bars in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison. In March, Gershkovich, who was an accredited correspondent in Russia, was on a reporting trip in the...

Members of the Screen Actors Guild -- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which has been on strike since July 14, announced on Thursday September 28, that it will return to the bargaining table with the AMPTP on Monday, October 2, representatives for SAG-AFTRA announced in a statement. George Clooney, Martin Sheen and Bryan Cranston, among others, have walked picket lines and publicly supported the labor action. Their concerns include studios threats to replace them ...

Courtesy the Carrigg family(WASHINGTON) -- For one military family, the consequences of a partial government shutdown would be dire: It could mean not affording treatments and medications for their child who is fighting for her life. Austin Carrigg and her husband, Master Sgt. Joshua Carrigg, are parents of three -- their youngest, 11-year-old Melanie, has Down syndrome, a congenital heart defect and a metabolic disorder. Melanie recently had a catastrophic stroke. Carrigg spoke with ABC News Se...

Morphew Family via AP(SALIDA, Colo.) -- The remains of Suzanne Morphew, a Colorado mother of two who went missing in 2020, have been found, authorities said. Human remains located on Sept. 22 during an unrelated search in the town of Moffat in Saguache County were positively identified as Suzanne Morphew on Wednesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said. "Specific information about the location and the state of the remains are being withheld at this time," the agency said. Suzan...