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Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(DETROIT) -- A labor strike against the three largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States carried into a fourth day on Monday amid ongoing negotiations to reach a deal. The United Auto Workers, which represents nearly 150,000 American autoworkers, launched a strike early Friday against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis -- the so-called Big Three. Almost 13,000 workers walked out of three auto plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. The union is utilizing a...

ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For those who need to commute when air quality is poor, a new technology will make it possible to use the safest route possible for their health. Airways, a new map--based app launched on Monday at the start of Climate Week NYC, will provide routes with the cleanest air for those traveling within New York City. Air quality in major cities has been worsening in recent decades for various reasons, including additional pollution from growing populations as ...

Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on Sunday sought to play down the ramifications in Washington from last weeks indictment of Hunter Biden, President Joe Bidens son, while Republicans seized on the development. In appearances on the Sunday public affairs show circuit, top Democrats noted the lack of firm evidence to back up Republicans allegations that the president directly profited off of or influenced his sons business dealings while suggesting that the ...

Mario Tama/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- An armed man accused of impersonating a U.S. Marshal was taken into custody at a Robert Kennedy Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A spokesperson from the LAPD said in a statement to ABC News that a radio call was generated around 4:30 p.m. local time reporting a man with "a loaded gun in a shoulder holster and a badge stating he was a U.S. Marshal." LAPD officers arrived shortl...

Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesRussell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse by four women in a new report published by three U.K. outlets on Saturday. According to The Sunday Times, The Times of London and Channel 4’s “Dispatches,” one of the women said she had been raped, while three others -- including one who was 16 at the time -- said they were sexually assaulted by Brand. One of the women also claimed Brand was physically and emotionally abusive towards her. The abuse all...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As former President Donald Trump continues to falsely claim he won the last election while he campaigns for the 2024 Republican nomination, outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said in a new interview he is not worried about a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. "You saw what happened on Jan. 6. Are you nervous about that happening again? Can you honestly say youre not nervous about that happening again?" ABC "This W...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The U.N. World Food Program (WFP), the largest anti-hunger initiative around the globe, is grappling with the worst funding shortage in its 60-year history and "we are in a desperate situation," Executive Director Cindy McCain said on Sunday. "Its a combination of things -- its COVID, its climate change, its conflict and also the cost of being able to do business," McCain told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl about the reasons behind ...

Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A former Florida surgeon general is rebuking claims by the DeSantis administration that updated COVID-19 vaccines have "not been proven to be safe or effective" and that the shots should not be recommended for individuals under the age of 65. The COVID vaccines remain "very, very safe, and have a really proven efficacy, particularly against preventing severe disease," Dr. Scott Rivkees, the former Florida surgeon general during the initial...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) -- The jury, consisting of Texas senators, has acquitted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on 16 articles of impeachment he faced in a rare Texas Senate impeachment trial after Paxton was suspended by the Texas House in May. The 16 articles were rejected overwhelmingly, with not even a simple majority voting in favor of any of the articles. A supermajority of 21 votes was required to convict Paxton on an impeachment article. The senators subsequently vot...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Lee, a Category 1 storm churning in the Atlantic Ocean, is bringing dangerous rip currents to the East Coast before heading to New England, where a hurricane watch is in effect. The winds and rain will reach Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine by Friday night. Heres how the news is developing. All times Eastern. Sep 16, 4:31 PM EDT Lee makes landfall in Nova Scotia Lee made landfall in far western Nova Scotia around 4 p.m. as a post-tropical cyclone, according t...