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ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Dangerous weather conditions are affecting nearly the entire state of California over the coming days. A second round of atmospheric rivers is bringing even more rain and flooding to Southern California in less than a week, exacerbating life-threatening flooding in the region for tens of millions of residents. The system is forecast to be one of the most significant storms in state history, bringing the threat of flash flooding possible from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles...

Csreed/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for documents related to her offices use of federal funds intended to support at-risk youth, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by ABC News. The subpoena comes as Willis faces unrelated scrutiny over her relationship with one of her top prosecutors in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others. Fridays subpoe...

Bissell recalls multi reach hand and floor vacuum cleaners due to fire hazard. (Consumer Product Safety Commission)(NEW YORK) -- Bissell, a floor cleaning product company, recalled over 150,000 of its Multi Reach Hand and Floor Vacuum Cleaners due to a potential fire hazard, according to an announcement on the United States Product Safety Commission and a separate announcement on the companys website. According to the USPSCs release posted on Thursday, the vacuums battery pack has the potential ...

Malia Ashad filed a lawsuit against five Alameda County Sheriff deputies after they allegedly denied her medical treatment ordered by a physician. (Pointer & Buelna, Lawyers for the People)(CALIFORNIA) -- A California woman alleges she was assaulted by sheriffs deputies while detained in a hospital in 2022 and awaiting medical treatment, according to a federal lawsuit filed against five officers from the Alameda County Sheriffs Office. Malia Ashad, 31, who was detained in a hospital, according t...

Weathers in The Mandalorian - LucasfilmFriends and former co-stars took to social media after news broke that Emmy nominee Carl Weathers had died in his sleep Thursday, February 1, at 76. In a video shot in front of a LeRoy Neiman painting of Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed clashing in the ring, an emotional Sylvester Stallone expressed, "Im so torn up, I cant even tell you." Stallone said Weathers was "such an integral part of my life," adding, "I never could have accompl...

Environmentalist Scott Smith test samples around the East Palestine train derailment. (ABC News)(OHIO) -- In the one year since the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, where 11 cars carrying hazardous materials spilled toxins into the environment, many of the residents still havent returned home. The spill forced hundreds of nearby residents out of their homes and sparked fears, as five tankers carried vinyl chloride, which posed serious health risks. Vinyl chloride burning can creat...

Richard Silver Photo/Getty Images(PARIS) -- The schedule for Notre Dames grand reopening in December was announced Saturday in a pastoral letter from Archbishop of Paris Mgr. Laurent Ulrich. The cathedral was heavily damaged in an April 2019 fire, causing the collapse of the landmarks upper section including its famous spire. The reopening of the iconic Paris cathedral will last from Dec. 8, 2024, to June 8, 2025, according to the letter. During that period, different celebrations will be held, ...

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Warning that the Middle East is facing a "dangerous moment" in time, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday defended Americas seeming delay in responding to Sundays enemy drone attack that killed three American service members four days ago. The remains of three Army reservists killed in the base attack were expected to arrive stateside on Friday, with Austin joining President Joe Biden and the families at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. In a...

Ableimages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds. For the report, published Wednesday, a collaborative team at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, looked at the first year of regular testing between spring 2022 and spring 2023 for school districts in 30 states...

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for NetflixBradley Cooper is an acclaimed director and has 12 Oscar nominations, so one might think hed have some highfalutin answer for his biggest inspirational moment as an actor.  However, he revealed it was watching Vince Vaughn in the 2005 R-rated hit comedy Wedding Crashers. During a recent conversation with fellow SAG Award nominees as a part of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations program, the Maestro filmmaker said that Wedding Crashers director David Do...