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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesNEW YORK -- Four years before Lehman Brothers collapsed and set off the worst U.S. financial disaster since the Great Depression, Ruhi Maker warned top officials at the Federal Reserve that the nations housing bubble could wreak "enormous" economic damage. Maker, a housing attorney in Rochester, New York, told Fed officials that a flood of faulty home loans could imperil the soundness of major investment banks, even naming Lehman Brothers, according to a tra...

Disney/John FleenorOn Thursdays episode of The Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner was faced with difficult decisions as he came to terms with his feelings for each of the women in the mansion. For this weeks group date, Gerry invited Ellen, Sandra, Susan, Nancy, April, Theresa, Kathy and Faith to play his favorite sport -- pickleball, enlisting the help ofTrista Sutter and upcoming Bachelor Joey Graziadei for the date. Ellens experience on the court paid off, as it led her and Kathy to vic...

Courtesy Galit Dan(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- An Israeli woman received an unthinkably tragic update on the fate of her daughter, who has autism, and her elderly mother 12 days after they were taken by Hamas: their bodies were found at the Gaza border, authorities told the family. Galit Dans daughter Noya, 12, and her mother Carmela, 80, were taken from their homes during the Hamas attacks on their Kibbutz, Nir Oz, on Oct. 7. Dan said three other members of their family are still missing: her niece S...

Kali9/Getty Images(HAGERSTOWN, Md.) -- Maryland authorities are searching for a 49-year-old in connection with the fatal shooting of a judge Thursday night. Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was found shot in a driveway in Hagerstown, Maryland, the Washington County Sheriffs Office said. Authorities said Friday morning theyre searching for 49-year-old Pedro Argote. He may be driving a silver 2009 Mercedes GL450 with Maryland plates 4EH0408. The sheriffs office asks anyone with informatio...

Wsfurlan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was considering issuing a proposed rule to ban hair straighteners with formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a chemical and a known carcinogen which has been found to cause an increased risk of endometrial cancers when used in chemical hair straighteners, often marketed to Black women. However, its not just straighteners. A plethora of products -- including perms, hair relaxers, lotions and gels -- geared to...

CPSC(NEW YORK) -- Fisher-Price is recalling about 21,000 units of some of their popular Thomas & Friends toys. Parents and customers are being advised to stop using Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Troublesome Truck & Crates and Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Troublesome Truck & Paint toys because a small magnet encased in a plastic piece that can connect the toys to additional train toy pieces "can detach or become loose, posing choking and magnet ingestion hazards," according to a Co...

Matei Brancoveanu/500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer known as "Ricky Vaughn," was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for falsely assuring supporters of Hillary Clinton they could cast their vote in the 2016 presidential election through text messages or social media posts. Mackey was prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act that was enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to efforts by the KKK to prevent recently emancepated ...

Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An "unprecedented catastrophe" is unfolding for civilians in Gaza, according to the United Nations, which is pleading for Islamic leaders to allow humanitarian efforts into the territory to help those trapped there. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) released a statement Wednesday urging the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation "to firml...

EllenMoran/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Good news for flyers who opt for the window seat -- your boarding zone will soon be prioritized on United Airlines. According to an internal memo from the Chicago-based carrier obtained by ABC News, starting on Oct. 26, the airline will change its boarding process for economy class passengers that will speed up getting seated and situated by two minutes. United Airlines new WILMA boarding process "WILMA" boarding, which was tested at four domestic l...

Burt Young, the tough guy actor best known for his role as Paulie, the butcher and brother of Talia Shires Adrian in the Rocky movies, died October 8 in Los Angeles, his manager, Lynda Bensky, confirmed to ABC News. He was 83. No cause of death was given. "Burt was an actor of tremendous emotional range. He could make you cry and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos that I experienced was the poignancy of his soul. That’s where it came from,” Bensky said in a statement. Youn...