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Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(SANTA COUNTY, Ariz.) -- State prosecutors said Monday they will not seek to retry 75-year-old George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting an unarmed migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border.“Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the Santa County Attorney’s office has decided not to seek a retrial,” said Deputy County Attorney Kimberly Hunley at a status hearing.As prosecutors made their announcement, Kelly could be seen hanging his head and appeared to be overcome with emotion.Another hearing will be set to consider the defense’s request to dismiss the case with prejudice.Last Monday, a judge declared a mistrial in the case after jurors were unable to reach consensus about whether to charge Kelly with second-degree murder and aggravated assault. He had pleaded not guilty.Kelly was accused of shooting his AK-47 from a far distance at a group of migrants who were headed back across the border into Mexico. Prosecutors said Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, a migrant who lived just across the border in Nogales, Mexico, and was looking for work, was fatally struck. Law enforcement officials were never able to recover the bullet, and Kelly’s lawyers tried to make the point that another person may have shot him. No other weapon was discovered in the area.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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ABC/Randy HolmesJeff Bridges, the original star of 1982's Tron, who played against a digitally de-aged version of himself in 2010's Tron: Legacy, has revealed he will be back for Tron: Ares.He told the Film Comment podcast, "I'm heading off this Saturday to play a part in the third installment of the Tron story." Bridges added, "Jared Leto is the star of this third one. ... I'm really anxious to work with him. I've admired his work."Bridges even commented on his last Tron outing, which had him at his age reprising as Kevin Flynn, battling against a digital doppelgänger of his younger self — or at least that was the idea. "I didn't like the way I looked in it," Bridges admitted of his supposed twin, the nefarious Clu. "I felt like I looked more like Bill Maher than myself. It was kind of bizarre."For Tron: Ares, Bridges said the world inside a computer in which his character lived is much more grounded. He noted there will be less artificial intelligence this time around and there are "practical" — that is non-CG — environments."There are beautiful sets that I've seen," Bridges said. "So we'll see."Fans will have to see how Bridges will fit into the story: Tron: Legacy ended with Flynn seemingly sacrificing himself by absorbing Clu so that his son Sam, played by Garrett Hedlund, could escape back into the real world with Olivia Wilde's digital human Quorra. Tron: Ares debuts October 10, 2025, from Disney, the parent company of ABC News.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gaza town of Rafah.Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in a phone call over the weekend, discussing increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza and plans for a possible military operation in Rafah, according to the White House.Here's how the news is developing:Apr 29, 4:20 PMWhite House won't get info specifics on cease-fire dealThe White House was careful not to get into specifics on the "extraordinarily generous" cease-fire proposal Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to earlier this morning, refusing to give specifics as they continued to call on Hamas to accept the proposal."I'm not going to characterize the proposal. I'm not going to get into any of the specifics. What we believe is that now is the time for Hamas to take this deal. It is on the table. It is time to, it is way past time to get these hostages home. It is way past time to get to a ceasefire and we need to make sure we continue to get that humanitarian aid," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.Jean-Pierre noted that Israel "has a lot on their plate," but expressed a desire for an in-person meeting to take place, in addition to the two virtual meetings the U.S. and Israel have had in recent weeks."We would like to have an in-person meeting. That is certainly what we would like to do, but in the meantime, we’ve had two important virtual meetings and in the readout, yesterday, we mentioned that the potential Rafah operations did come up between the two leaders in their conversation," she said.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi also spoke to President Joe Biden Monday about ongoing Gaza talks and Egyptian efforts to reach a cease-fire and hostage deal in a phone call, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.The call discussed the risks of an Israeli incursion into Rafah, including the "catastrophic" impact on the worsening humanitarian crisis, and implications for the security and stability of the region, the statement added.-ABC News' Molly Nagle and Ayat Al-TawyApr 29, 3:53 PMIsrael leaders concerned about possible ICC arrest warrants: SourceIsraeli leaders are expressing concern over possible arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against key officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an Israeli official, who spoke under condition of anonymity, told ABC News.It is believed that such potential warrants might be related to charges on the scope of humanitarian aid Israel allowed into Gaza, according to the official.The ICC can charge individuals with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide under its powers.-ABC News' Dana SavirApr 29, 12:20 PM21 killed, 6 injured after strike in GazaAt least 21 people were killed in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike Monday, the Al Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah told ABC News. Six people were injured from the strike, the hospital added.The updated death toll in Gaza is 34,488 killed and 77,643 injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.ABC News has reached out to the Israeli army for comment on the strike.-ABC News' Dia OstazApr 29, 8:36 AMBlinken calls for cease-fire in first stop on Middle East tripU.S. Secretary of Antony Blinken, who is currently in Saudi Arabia, notably called for a cease-fire as "the most effective way to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza" during a session with his counterparts of the Gulf Cooperation Council."The most effective way to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to alleviate the suffering of children, women and men and to create space for a more just and durable solution is to get a cease-fire and hostages home, but also not waiting on a cease-fire to take the necessary steps to meet the needs of civilians of Gaza," Blinken said."President Biden is insistent that Israel take specific concrete measurable steps to better address humanitarian suffering, civilian harm and the safety of aid workers in Gaza, including in his most recent call with Prime Minister Netanyahu," he added, referring to a Sunday call with the Israeli leader.Blinken said the U.S. was "focused on addressing the greatest threat to regional stability and regional security -- Iran."Apr 28, 6:00 PMUnited States Central Command and Royal Jordanian Air Force airdrop aid into GazaU.S. Central Command and the Royal Jordanian Air Force conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Northern Gaza on Sunday.The combined joint operation included Jordanian provided food and four U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft.The U.S. C-130's dropped over 25,000 Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), providing life-saving humanitarian assistance in Northern Gaza. Additionally, more than 13,080 meal equivalents of Jordanian food supplies were also delivered.To date the U.S. has dropped nearly 1,110 tons of humanitarian assistance.Apr 28, 5:22 PMAmerican hostage's niece opens up about 'surreal' new videoHanna Siegel, niece of American hostage Keith Siegel, appeared on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday morning and talked about the "surreal" feeling of seeing a recently released video purporting to show her uncle and talked about the possibility of a deal that would free him and other people thought to still be held by Hamas in Gaza."We've always believed that he was alive. We have to believe he's alive -- and his wife, my aunt, who was held for 52 days, [was] released in the deal that took place in November, she was with him," Siegel said. "When she came out, she told us he was alive, but this is the first time that we're seeing him, hearing him. It's surreal."When asked about a potential hostage deal and temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Siegel said that she does think an agreement "can be reached" and pointed to an earlier deal that secured the release of her aunt and others during a brief pause in the war late last year.Siegel also said that she believes the new release of purported hostage videos shows that Hamas is signaling they are ready to make a deal.But she said that she is concerned that it might not be in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "political interest to close a deal," though Netanyahu has said his goal is freeing the captives in Gaza as well as dismantling Hamas.Siegel said that the Biden administration should "think about what they can do directly to bring our American citizens home."She also said she has felt the "commitment from the Biden administration to get him back," referring to her uncle.She became emotional talking about how her family missed her uncle during their Passover celebration and had a picture of him to pay tribute."I think there's so much swirling in the political realm that it's easy to forget that these are human beings. Keith is a grandfather, he's a husband, he's a brother, he's an uncle," she said.She was asked whether her family is worried if a potential Israeli invasion of the Gaza city of Rafah, to further target Hamas fighters, could threaten her uncle's safety. She responded that she and her family are "very concerned."Apr 28, 5:10 PMHamas to send a delegation to Cairo for hostage and cease-fire negotiationsHamas will send a delegation to Cairo, Egypt, on Monday to participate in hostage and cease-fire deal negotiations, ABC News has confirmed.Meanwhile, a senior Hamas official also told the Agence France-Presse on Sunday that the organization has no significant problems with the proposed deal."The atmosphere is positive unless there are new obstacles from the Israeli side," the Hamas official said.

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tattywelshie/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It's been nearly one month since California raised the minimum wage at certain restaurants, which has put a spotlight on a course correction that many see as long overdue.But for some -- and not just fast food franchise owners -- the newly raised bar for compensation also marks a pivotal point for restaurants to remain competitive in an already difficult post-pandemic landscape. The industry with famously thin margins is once again being pushed to make monetary and operational adjustments to stay afloat, all without compromising consumer expectations.Some customers have already felt the pinch of costs being passed onto them, as recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, which restaurant owners and executives at chains like Chipotle and McDonald's warned could come as a result of the state voting to increase the minimum from $16 to $20 an hour at restaurant chains with at least 60 locations nationwide.Market-research firm Dataessential provided ABC News with menu price analysis at 70 limited-service restaurants (LSR), which includes both fast-food and fast-casual chains, that showed California eateries have increased prices by 10% overall since September and has outpaced all other states."I know that we are course correcting from a minimum wage that hasn't kept up with the cost of living index and has not kept up with inflation. The pendulum is swung to kind of make up for a lot of inactive and stagnation with wages. But for restaurants to be the first industry to bear the brunt of this is really tough," Briana Valdez, founder and CEO of HomeState in Southern California, told ABC's Good Morning America."Coming out of a time where restaurants, who were essential workers during the pandemic and fought so hard to keep their doors open and to keep teams employed, now have another major impact on our ability to keep our teams happy and to keep our doors open, and to continue to offer affordable options for our diners," she continued. "It's another massive challenge on the heels of just kind of getting our feet back on the ground."Valdez, who's placed equity and wellbeing at the forefront of her business, first brought a taste of Texas food and hospitality to Hollywood, California with house-made flour tortillas, breakfast tacos, queso, and brisket back in 2013 and has since expanded to eight restaurant locations across Southern California with 350 employees.While her restaurant group doesn't meet the same volume as restaurants in the LSR category mandated in the new law, the daughter of first-generation Mexican American parents told GMA frankly that "$20 an hour now it's not competitive -- it's just the starting point now for most restaurants that are competing for the same talent pool.""All things being equal," she said thinking of potential applicants, "most people are going to apply for the job that has a higher rate, so you really start to compete directly with people who are mandated by [AB 1228] to have a $20 an hour starting wage -- It drives everybody's wages up."Valdez, who previously worked in fine dining at Thomas Keller's Bouchon in Beverly Hills, opened "with a pooled house and that was groundbreaking at the time," she said of the equitable pay structure that divides tips between the kitchen and service staff evenly.On average last year, Valdez's employees netted nearly $24 per hour, which is how she said they've "been able to stay competitive." But since that can't be listed as a starting wage due to tips, she's had to get creative with how to present the overall work experience with appealing benefits "to make the work-life balance really healthy," such as telehealth for $5 a paycheck that extends to employees' families, pet insurance, family meal, and two days off in a row.On top of the immediate public-facing challenges that come from this all-at-once financial change, restaurant owners are also left to juggle rising food costs and other variables in the supply chain that can greatly impact a restaurant's overhead and bottom line."Our vendors are all under the same pressures that we are -- they're all fighting to keep their relationships intact with their restaurants -- but their costs are all going up as well," Valdez pointed out. "So as restaurants, we're on the last end of all those commodities and markets that have come before us," such as farmers, harvest labor, transit of crops, food storage, packing, and distribution."We're being as transparent as we can because cost has gone up," she continued, sharing for example that HomeState is "losing money every time we sell a brisket taco."Ultimately, Valdez said this culmination of increased costs for operators have to go somewhere: "It's going to shift the landscape for the diner -- we are going to see increased menu prices and that is just a byproduct of of this."Even Michaela Mendelsohn, who was appointed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's Fast Food Council last fall before AB 1228 was signed into law, is seeing the immediate financial impact on her restaurants.The CEO of Pollo West Corporation, one of the largest franchisees of the fast casual California restaurant chain El Pollo Loco, told GMA they preempted price raises in February before the minimum wage law took effect on April 1 to test the waters and "had a 3% decline in transactions.""It's become really clear to us that our customers are [experiencing] sticker shock and price fatigue," Mendelsohn said. "With inflation, we've had to increase too many times and it's not the answer anymore or else we'll just keep reducing our business to less and less people.""We quickly shifted from being profitable to losing money on April 1," the former president of the El Pollo Loco Franchise Association of nine years said frankly. "We're in a tough position right now where we're pretty much having to accept the fact that we're making no money for a while until we figure this out."To cut costs and stay afloat, Mendelsohn said their restaurants have had to reduce hours by roughly more than 10%, simplify menus, and implement new technologies such as automated ordering kiosks, which she explained can have a long learning curve for customers and hasn't helped save any money in the short term."We're also looking at the possibility of certain stores opening later or closing earlier -- because those fringe hours are often not profitable. And now they've become that much less profit," she added. "AI will be the next big step, we'll be one of the test stores -- to start testing automation in our drive thru," but in the meantime an employee still needs to be on headset to monitor each transaction.Mendelsohn, who's owned El Pollo Loco franchises for 36 years, said this "is a throwback to the recession" when the business "had double digit declines for three years." "This was supposed to be something I was wanting to leave to my kids -- but I'm not sure what's gonna be left. I'm fighting to keep something there that's valuable for them," she said.The mother of five and transgender activist who has worked closely with the California Legislature on an array of business policies, said, "I'm sad to say this law was so ill advised in my eyes and many others to have it just focus on 500,000 fast food workers, but there's 40 million people that live in the state. When you just choose one industry, that's a good size of the state but certainly just a small piece in the totality, why isn't everybody getting $20 an hour and why isn't it being done over a period of time so that everybody can adjust accordingly? I don't see it as a solution."While it's still too early to know how the wage increase has impacted specifics on hiring or staffing, according to a representative from the National Restaurant Association, tangible data will be available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics next month in the April jobs report which can help paint a clearer picture of the new law's inaugu

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Getty Images - STOCK(WASHINGTON) -- Ralph Puckett Jr., Colonel, United States Army, Retired. A name of honor and now for history.Medal of Honor recipient Puckett's cremated remains lay in honor Monday afternoon at the center of the Capitol rotunda -- one of the nation's highest honors. Puckett died April 8 at the age of 97 in Columbus, Georgia.To lie in state or honor at the U.S. Capitol is a privilege reserved for the country's most-distinguished citizens and leaders, including United States presidents and some of the country's most-decorated veterans of war. Only seven citizens -- Rosa Parks and Billy Graham and four U.S. Capitol police officers -- have ever lay in honor.Puckett drew enemy fire and exposed himself multiple times to danger to allow his fellow Army Rangers to find and destroy enemy positions during a multi-wave attack, which earned him the Medal of Honor."The courage and self-sacrifice that earned that honor will be this great man's eternal legacy," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said during Monday's ceremony.President Joe Biden awarded Puckett the Medal of Honor on May 21, 2021, upgrading one of his Distinguished Service Crosses, for Puckett showing "extraordinary heroism and selflessness" in the Korean War more than 70 years ago, explaining that the award finally gave Puckett's "act of valor the full recognition they have always deserved."Moon Jae-in, president of the Republic of Korea, joined the celebration in the East Room -- becoming the first foreign leader to attend a Medal of Honor ceremony."Colonel Puckett is a true hero of the Korean War. With extraordinary valor and leadership, he completed missions until the very end, defending Hill 205 and fighting many more battles requiring equal valiance," Moon said. "Without the sacrifice of veterans, including Colonel Puckett and the Eighth Army Ranger Company, freedom and democracy we enjoy today couldn't have blossomed in Korea."Speaker Mike Johnson expressed hope that the next generation of service members and warfighters "learn" from Puckett's example and "aspire the same great virtues of valor and honor and courage.""These heroes were forged by fire. They were built through great adversity. They were ordinary men. Most of them had to do extraordinary things because they were driven by a profound sense of duty and self-sacrifice and faith that their cause was just," Johnson said. "That our values in our country were worth defending, and that God would honor the inestimable value of their personal commitments. The soldiers of the Korean War did the right thing, even at great cost to themselves, and theirs is an example we should all admire and aspire to."According to a military citation read at the ceremony, Puckett was awarded the Medal of Honor "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" serving as the commander 8th U.S. Army Ranger Company during November 25-26,1950, in Korea.As Puckett's unit commenced a daylight offensive, the Korean enemy directed mortar, machine gun and small-arms fire against the advancing U.S. force, the citation read. Puckett mounted a tank, "exposing himself to the deadly enemy fire" before leaping from the tank, shouting "words of encouragement" to his men before leading the Rangers in the attack.As enemy fire "threatened the success of the attack by pinning down" one U.S. platoon, Puckett "intentionally ran across an open area three times to draw enemy fire, thereby allowing the Rangers to locate and destroy the enemy positions and to seize Hill 205," the citation noted.A counterattack lasted hours, and though Puckett was wounded by grenade fragments early in the fight, he refused evacuation and continually directed artillery support that decimated attacking enemy formations.During a sixth attack, two enemy mortar rounds landed in his foxhole, inflicting "grievous wounds" and limiting his mobility. Puckett issued a command to leave him behind and evacuate the area. But two Rangers refused the order and retrieved him from the foxhole -- moving him out from under enemy fire to the bottom of the hill, where Puckett then "called for devastating artillery fire on the top of the enemy-controlled hill.""First Lieutenant Puckett's extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army," the citation concluded.Puckett later returned to service and deployed to combat in Vietnam, where he was again honored for his gallantry. Among his other awards are five Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars, three Legion of Merit awards, two Bronze Star medals and a second Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in Vietnam.The flags at the U.S. Capitol flew at half-staff on Monday in tribute to Puckett.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(SALEM, Ore.) -- The winners of the $1.326 billion Powerball ticket were officially revealed by the Oregon Lottery on Monday.During a press conference at the Oregon Lottery Headquarters in Salem, Oregon, husband and wife Cheng and Duanpen Saephan and their friend Laiza Chao were announced as the winners of the massive lottery drawn earlier this month.Cheng Saephan, an immigrant from Laos living in Portland, explained how life-changing the lottery win is amid his eight-year cancer battle."I'm happy for my family, they will have a good life," Saephan said during the press conference. "I'm battling cancer so thinking how am I going to spend all the money," he said, adding that he can now find a "good doctor" and that he and his wife plan to buy a home with their lump-sum winnings.Saephan immigrated to America in 1994 and used to work in aerospace.He and his wife and their friend, Laiza Chao, bought 20 Powerball tickets in hopes of winning the jackpot."I call Laiza as she's driving to work, I told her you don't have to go to work now; we won the lottery; we won the jackpot!" Saephan recalled during the press conference.The staggering $1.326 billion Powerball ticket was the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in history and the eighth-largest among U.S. jackpot games, according to the Oregon Lottery.On April 6, a lucky ticket matching all six Powerball numbers was sold at the Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland, Oregon, the state's lottery announced at the time.The numbers drawn for the jackpot were 22, 27, 44, 52 and 69, with a Powerball of 9, the lottery said."This is our first winner on this scale, so this is very exciting for us," Melanie Mesaros, spokesperson for the Oregon Lottery told ABC News on April 7.The lottery winners have the opportunity to accept a lump cash sum of $621 million or receive annual payouts of the $1.3 billion, also pre-tax -- starting with one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year, the lottery said.The jackpot is subject to federal taxes and state taxes in Oregon.The Plaid Pantry location in northeast Portland will also receive a $100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket, according to the lottery."Plaid Pantry is thrilled to learn that one of our 104 Oregon stores sold the $1.3 billion dollar Powerball ticket," Plaid Pantry President and CEO Jonathan Polonsky said in a statement to the Oregon Lottery. "This store is one of our newest and most loved stores. Proceeds from the Oregon Lottery fund many programs that benefit everyone in the state, and we've been a proud partner with the Oregon Lottery since the very beginning."The individuals with the winning $1.326 billion ticket came forward on April 8 and underwent a vetting process before their identity was announced."This is an unprecedented jackpot win for Oregon Lottery," Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells said in a press release on April 8. "We're taking every precaution to verify the winner before awarding the prize money, which will take time."The Powerball jackpot previously ballooned to an estimated $1.3 billion ahead of the April 6 drawing after a record-tying streak with no jackpot winner.The Powerball hasn't been won since Jan. 1, when a ticket sold in Michigan claimed a $842.4 million jackpot.In 2022, the largest U.S. lottery jackpot, worth $2.04 billion, was won in California.Powerball is a multi-state jackpot operated by 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, according to Oregon Lottery.Powerball tickets are $2 per play and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball. Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Jason Marz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorneys representing President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden are threatening to sue Fox News for violating "revenge porn" laws and publishing since-discredited bribery allegations as part of a scheme to "paint him in a false light," according to a letter obtained by ABC News.The letter, which Hunter Biden's counsel transmitted to attorneys at Fox News last week, includes a request for the conservative news outlet to "preserve all documents potentially relevant to the allegations in this letter" -- a common precursor to litigation."We anticipate that litigation against FOX ... is imminent," the letter says.To pen the letter to Fox, Hunter Biden enlisted the law firm Geragos & Geragos, whose principal, Mark Geragos, has represented A-listers like Michael Jackson, singer Chris Brown, and actress Winona Ryder.Geragos also has experience representing family members of presidents: He negotiated a plea deal in 2001 for Roger Clinton Jr., the brother of former President Bill Clinton, for driving under the influence.After years of quietly weathering a federal criminal investigation and deluge of negative press, Hunter Biden embarked on an aggressive legal counteroffensive last year against several individuals who played some role in obtaining and disseminating the contents of a laptop purportedly belonging to him.Among those are John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repairman who initially obtained the laptop; Rudy Giuliani, who denied Hunter Biden's claim that he manipulated and disseminated data from the laptop; and Garrett Ziegler, a onetime Trump White House aide who published the contents of the laptop -- including several graphic images -- to the internet.According to accounts given by Mac Isaac and his attorney, on April 12, 2019, Hunter Biden arrived at Mac Isaac's computer repair shop with three damaged devices and asked if the data could be recovered. Days later, Mac Isaac said, he asked Hunter Biden to return to the shop to retrieve the devices and pay an $85 service fee. Mac Isaac has said he never heard back from Hunter Biden, and the invoice was never paid.After 90 days, according to Mac Isaac and his attorney, the abandoned laptop became Mac Isaac's property, pursuant to the work order agreement Hunter Biden allegedly signed when he first visited Mac Isaac's shop.Mac Isaac subsequently turned the laptop and external hard drive over to the FBI in December 2019, and later sought to share information from the devices with then-President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who made the contents of the devices available to other Trump allies and some news outlets in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election.In a statement to ABC News, Hunter Biden's legal team said, "For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature in order to boost ratings and for its financial gain. The recent indictment of FBI informant Smirnov has exposed the conspiracy of disinformation that has been fueled by Fox, enabled by their paid agents and monetized by the Fox enterprise. We plan on holding them accountable."Attorneys for Hunter Biden demanded that Fox News "expeditiously remove and disable access" to the images. They sent the letter on April 23 and requested that Fox's legal team "have taken steps outlined in this letter" by Friday, April 26.A person familiar with the matter said that as of Monday, Fox News had not responded. A spokesperson for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News.If Hunter Biden moves forward with a lawsuit against Fox News, it would constitute his first action against a major media firm.In their letter to Fox News, attorneys for Hunter Biden cited statistics that they say demonstrate how ubiquitous the outlet's coverage of the president's son had become in recent years.Some of Fox News' star anchors, including Maria Bartiromo and Sean Hannity, ran hundreds of segments about a now-discredited claim that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch, according to statistics gathered by media watchdog Media Matters.Alexander Smirnov, the source of the allegation, has since pleaded not guilty to charges that he fabricated the story to harm the president politically.But according their letter, attorneys for Hunter Biden charge that "rather than walk back the story and correct the record, FOX double-downed on the debunked bribery allegation and used Smirnov's indictment to suggest an even deeper conspiracy."Attorneys for Hunter Biden also demanded that Fox News remove a miniseries called "The Trial of Hunter Biden" from its streaming services.The miniseries, described by Fox Nation as a mock trial that seeks to show "how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look," includes several sexually graphic images of Hunter Biden, which are reproduced in the letter.The miniseries "unlawfully published and continues to publish intimate images of Mr. Biden depicting him in the nude as well as engaged in sex acts in violation of the majority of states' laws against the nonconsensual disclosure of sexually explicit images and videos, sometimes referred to as 'revenge porn' laws," Hunter Biden's attorneys wrote.The images cited in the letter date back to a time when Hunter Biden was in the throes of drug and alcohol addiction. In his 2021 memoir, "Beautiful Things," Hunter Biden described frequent drug-infused binges that often involved sexual interactions with women.When special counsel David Weiss brought tax-related charges against Biden last year, his indictment included an accounting of how Hunter Biden spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on women instead of paying his taxes. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to those charges.Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Entertainment - KSYL-AM

Paramount Home EntertainmentThe comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is turning 20, and that's kind of a big deal. To celebrate, Paramount Home Entertainment is bringing the hit comedy to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc for the first time.It makes its format debut on July 2, 2024.Written by director Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, the classic had Ferrell in the title role, a newsman who's a big fish in the small pond of local journalism in 1970s San Diego, California.Ferrell is joined by a deep bench of comedy talent: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner play the rest of his Channel 4 news team, which is upended when Christina Applegate's Veronica Corningstone is installed as Burgundy's co-anchor.Also appearing in the film are the late Fred Willard, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Luke Wilson and Tim Robbins, among others.The new release is loaded with two hours' worth of extras, including auditions, deleted scenes, bloopers and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, a 92-minute movie featuring outtakes and storylines that had been left on the editing room floor. Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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NetflixProducer Greg Berlanti, of Arrow-verse fame and whose new show Dead Boy Detectives just debuted on Netflix, is in business with the streamer for Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series, Deadline is reporting. Officially, Netflix is still mum at this time.According to the trade, however, the show will be written by Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, who brought another animated property to real life for Netflix with Cowboy Bebop.Berlanti's production company also shepherded You and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina shows to the streamer.The titular dog, his pal Shaggy, and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang were seen in live-action on the big screen in 2002's hit Scooby-Doo and 2004's Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, both written by eventual Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director James Gunn.The Scooby gang was also seen in the flesh in a pair of TV movies: Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins in 2009 and 2010's Scooby Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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NCIS: Hawai'i's current third season will also be its last. Vanessa Lachey, who plays Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant in the NCIS spinoff took to her Instagram Story on Sunday to share her disappointment over the cancellation, writing, "Trying to explain this news to my daughter ... and she makes me Mickey ears so I can 'smile.'" She added, "This decision was bigger than a TV show." Tori Anderson, who portrays FBI agent Kate Whistler, shared, "Having a really hard time processing this one ... This is a huge loss for representation." NCIS: Hawai'i follows Tennant and her team, who "balance duty to family and country, investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security, and the mysteries of the island itself," per the network ...Season 50 of Survivor will feature all returning players, host Jeff Probst revealed at a Survivor FYC showcase on Saturday, April 27, according to Variety. "About 10 seconds ago, we just decided, thanks to all the fans that were in attendance at the FYC event here in Hollywood, that Survivor 50 will be returning players — and you all are part of it," he shared later in an Instagram video. Survivor, currently in its 46th season, airs Wednesdays on CBS ...Marla Adams, best known for playing Dina Abbott Mergeron on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, died Thursday in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 85. Matt Kane, director of media and talent for Y&R, broke the news. The cause of death was not revealed. Adams' soap opera career began on CBS’ The Secret Storm, where she played Belle Clemens from 1968 until the show's cancelation in 1974. Adams joined Y&R in 1982-85, and returned for brief stints in 1991, 1996, 2008 and 2017. In 2021, Adams won a Daytime Emmy for her work ... Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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