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Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty ImagesNEW YORK -- U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in a new advisory Tuesday that excessive social media use can be a “profound risk” to the mental health of youth in the United States. “I’m very concerned that social media has become an important contributor to the pain and the struggles that many of our young people are facing,” Murthy said in an interview on ABC News Live. A surgeon general’s advisory is “reserved for significant public health chal...

Search for homicide suspect takes investigation to South Carolina... The search for the local man accused of killing Jamestown mother Kala Hodgkin has led from Pennsylvania to South Carolina.  ...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- For a generation, the concept of a gun that can only be fired by its rightful owner was seen as something of a holy grail for gun safety. Efforts to develop the technology were launched, and the state of New Jersey even went so far to build a law around the concept -- long before development efforts bore fruit. Now, a Colorado-based weapons startup believes it has found a way forward for a nation where many are searching for anything that could help lower the toll of gun vi...

Warner Bros. PicturesThe official trailer for The Color Purple is here. The film, which is based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, stars Halle Bailey, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and more. In the trailer, Barrino sings the musicals song "Im Here" as clips from the movie flash across the screen. The story, set in rural Georgia in the early 1900s, follows sisters Celie and Nettie, who were separated as girls but ...

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...

City Council unanimously approves hiring eight new firefighters -- with stipulations... An 11th hour push to find a way to allow eight more firefighters to be hired in the city of Jamestown proved f...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Just ahead of what airlines say could be the busiest Memorial Day weekend for travel since before COVID-19, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is sharing how his department is prepping for the potentially record-breaking season. "We know for sure that there is going to be a very high level of demand, a lot of traffic and a lot of pressure on the system," Buttigieg said in an interview with ABC News. Amid an ongoing air traffic controller s...

Universal Fast X opened in first place at the weekend box office with an estimated $67.5 million domestic gross. However, the 10th film in the Fast and the franchise failed to match the previous installment, 2021’s F9: The Fast Saga, which opened with $70 million. Overseas, Fast X grabbed an estimated $251.39 million, for a global haul of $320 million. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dropped to second place, delivering an estimated $32.8 million. Its three-week tally stands at $267 million...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A 12-year-old Massachusetts girl is being credited with helping save her twin brothers life. Amelia Loverme was eating lunch with her twin brother Charlie and their classmates in the school cafeteria this month when Charlie began choking on a slice of cheese. "I was just really scared because I didnt know if I would be able to get it out of my throat or if it would just be stuck there," Charlie told ABC News Good Morning America. "I thought I was going to pas...

Search for homicide suspect takes investigation to South Carolina... The search for the local man accused of killing Jamestown mother Kala Hodgkin has led from Pennsylvania to South Carolina.  ...