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Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- There were 302,000 encounters along the southwest border in December, marking the highest monthly total ever recorded, sources told ABC News. Sources stressed the numbers are preliminary and could change. The numbers -- a hot-button election year topic -- come as the Justice Department threatened to sue the state of Texas over its passage of SB. 4, which allows for state and local law enforcement to apprehend anyone who they believe is in the...

NetflixOriginal movies made big numbers on Netflix during Christmas week. Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire stayed in the top spot during its first full week on the streaming service. The sci-fi epic added 34 million views to the 29 million it amassed during its debut weekend, standing now at about 63 million views in total. It was the most-watched English-language film, as well as the most-watched overall title on the service from December 25 through December 31. Leave...

PonyWang/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Health officials in Suffolk County, New York, are warning the public that cases of the respiratory bacterial infection called pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have been on the rise in the area. In Suffolk County, 108 cases of pertussis were reported or suspected in 2023. One hundred of those cases have been reported since Nov. 28, 2023, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County Department of Health Services told ABC News. Officials say there have been no kn...

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...

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 ...

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...

Courtesy of Sean Cullen(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Sean Cullen, of New York, was 9 years old when his 9-month-old brother Kevin died due to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common respiratory virus. Today, nearly 30 years later, Cullen works as both a laboratory researcher and neonatologist at New York-Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital for Women and Newborns at Weill Cornell, the same neo-natal intensive care unit, NICU, where Kevin was treated. Cullen, one of six siblings, said his youngest sib...

This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyos Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, 2024. (STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images)(TOKYO) -- A Japan Airlines plane was engulfed in flames after landing at Haneda Airport on Tuesday. The flight, JL516, which was traveling from Chitose, Hokkaido, may have struck a Japan Coast Guard plane as it was landing, officials told Japanese broadcaster NHK, saying it was a preliminary assessment. The aircraft landed at about 5:4...

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...

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...