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President Biden. CREDIT: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(NEW YORK) -- President Joe Biden, in the wake of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said congressional Republicans are "making a big mistake" by not passing additional aid to Ukraine.Biden, returning to the White House on Monday, was asked by a reporter if hed go so far as to say House Republicans had Navalnys "blood on their hands" amid their opposition to funding for the war-torn nation ...

Sorrasak Jar Tinyo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In operating rooms across the country, more and more diabetics are receiving amputations due to complications from type-2 diabetes.The life-altering procedures are more common among Black and Latino patients who are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease, according to health data.Despite the grim figures, medical professionals said that diabetics can avoid losing a limb, but due to a lack of awareness of treatments, many minorities are missing o...

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images, STOCK(BURNSVILLE, Minn.)-- Two police officers and one firefighter were shot and killed in Burnsville, Minnesota, on Sunday after responding to a "call of a family in danger," according to Gov. Tim Walz."Horrific news from Burnsville," Walz began his statement on X. "While responding to a call of a family in danger, two police officers and one firefighter lost their lives, and other officers were injured.""We must never take for gran...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA, Penn.)-- The day after a New York judge fined him $355 million in the wake of a lengthy fraud trial, former President Donald Trump spent his Saturday in two battleground states, Pennsylvania and Michigan.First stop: Sneaker Con in Philadelphia."Sneakerheads, your sneakerheads, right? Does everybody in the room consider themselves a sneakerhead?" Trump said in a short speech to an unusual crowd that was divided between chanting for and booing ...

Scott Olson/Getty Images(SAINT PAUL, Minn.) -- Each year, winter sport enthusiasts flock to cold weather states where higher levels of ice and snow create the ideal environment for activities like skiing, skating, ice fishing and more. The winter sports industry contributes over $12 billion to the U.S. economy every year, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Protect Our Winters. But as climate change driven by global warming prompts shorter and less predictable win...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(LEWISTON, Maine) -- Three months before the alleged Maine mass shooter would open fire at a bar and a bowling alley, killing 18 people and injuring 13 more, Robert Card told police in New York he was "capable" of doing "something," as they coaxed him to go for psychological treatment and evaluation, police body camera shows. New York State troopers were called by members of Cards Army Reserve unit out of concern for his mental decline in July, as ABC ...

Alex McBride/Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are demanding that Russian authorities release his body to his mother and lawyer, claiming it is being deliberately withheld. Russian authorities announced Navalny died in an Arctic prison camp on Friday. After expressing skepticism over whether he died, Navalnys team confirmed his death, alleging the 47-year-old was murdered and that Russian investigative authorities took away his body for further examinati...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A sunbathed Dalmatian tiptoes across a windowsill, a Chinese New Year parade engulfs a city street, an archeologist digs up a chair from desert sand. Videos posted online display these events, but none of them happened. They make up the first publicly available work created by OpenAIs newly unveiled video-generation tool Sora. Sora composes videos, lasting up to one-minute long, based on user prompts, just as ChatGPT responds to input with written respo...

ABC News(TEL  AVIV, Israel) -- Some families of Israeli hostages say they have reached their breaking point and have begun to take extreme measures to express their frustration more than four months into the Israel-Hamas war. Dozens of people have blocked traffic in recent days on Israeli highways, lit fires, thrown buckets of fake blood, and shouted chants calling on the government to work harder to bring the hostages home who were taken after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7. Many o...

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The judge overseeing former President Donald Trumps Georgia election interference case is set to hear arguments over motions to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, primarily over accusations that she benefited financially from a personal relationship with a prosecutor she hired for the case. Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign staffer, filed a motion last month seeking to dismiss the charges against him and di...