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Creativeye99/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Richard "Bigo" Barnett was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and six months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. Barnett became one of the most recognizable figures in the 2021 attack after images circulated showing him with his feet propped up on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosis office. Barnett profited from online fundraisers and even tried selling signed copies of the photos on social media. He was convicted...

Pramote Polyamate/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A man left paralyzed by a motorcycle crash over a decade ago is walking again after a surgical procedure aided by artificial intelligence. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, said he dreamt of walking again after being paralyzed from the waist down in the 2011 crash. "I tried everything at home," Oskam told ABC News. "I tried standing up and making steps, but it wasnt enough." It was not until last year that Oskam, working with researchers in Switz...

Robert Alexander/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Truck drivers delivering Bud Light have received the middle finger from passersby, distributors have faced intentional collisions from shopping carts as they drop off beer and vendors have endured homophobic jokes calling them "gay beer salesmen," according to top officials at several beer distribution companies. While Anheuser-Busch InBev weathers a consumer boycott of Bud Light over a promotion from a trans influencer, the fallout is hitting...

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Fokke Hassel/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. nonprofit created after a school shooting is helping troops in Ukraine learn crucial medical care -- and some soldiers on the ground credit the new skill set with saving lives. Stop the Bleed, a nonprofit collaboration from the American College of Surgeons formed in the aftermath of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, is training Ukrainian soldiers and giving kits that could save lives to troops fighting Russias invasion of Ukrain...

WPBF(FLORIDA) -- Police in Florida are looking for a missing man who friends say was last seen likely going out for a run three days ago. Makuach Yak, 31, a youth basketball coach from Delray Beach, was supposed to coach on Saturday but was nowhere to be found, his friend and business partner told ABC West Palm Beach affiliate WPBF. "Hes very responsible," his friend, Tate VanRoekel, told the station. "If he says hes gonna do something, hes gonna do it." Home security footage...

Ben Crump Law(ATLANTA) -- LaShawn Thompson, the man whose family claimed was “eaten alive by insects and bed bugs” in the Fulton County Jail, died of “complications due to severe neglect,” according to an independent autopsy. Thompson’s family spoke out in a press conference outside the Georgia State Capitol on Monday, along with their attorneys Ben Crump and Michael Harper, where they announced the results of the independent autopsy in which Thompson’s cause of death is listed as �...

Courtesy MaxStreaming service Max has parted the curtain on a new "rom-doc," or romantic-documentary, called Swiping America. The show will launch on the newly rebranded streaming service on June 15 with the first two of six episodes. Producers tease the show "follows a group of diverse singles from New York City (Ashleigh, Kesun, Kris, Reagan) on an introspective, eight-city dating app journey, as they explore personal issues around sex, relationships, love and connection." ...

Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Researchers have discovered hundreds of new animal and plant species in remote parts of the world previously inaccessible to humans, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Among the 380 newly found species include animal vertebrates such as a color-changing lizard, a thick-thumbed bat, a poisonous snake named after a Chinese mythological goddess, an orchid that looks like a muppet and a tree frog with skin that resembles thick moss. They were all ...

Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health. In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of content generating the most harm, societal factors that could protect youth and ways in which social media can be beneficial. "To date the burden o...