President Donald Trump is pushing for his Justice Department to pay approximately $230 million as a settlement for investigations he faced during the Biden administration and his first term, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday. The extraordinary agreement, as first reported The New York TimesHe would likely first need approval…
There are no plans for President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet “in the immediate future,” a White House official said Tuesday, canceling a summit expected in Hungary in the coming weeks. Trump announced Thursday that he and Putin planned to meet again, predicting it would happen “within about two weeks.” First,…
As the federal government shutdown enters its third week, some Americans are concerned about the future of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Subsidies, or premium tax credits, help reduce or eliminate the out-of-pocket cost of monthly premiums for those who purchase insurance through the health insurance marketplace. They were improved during the COVID-19 pandemic and…
LONDON – The president and director of the Louvre Museum in Paris has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the brazen theft of priceless jewels over the weekend. Laurence des Cars has been summoned to appear before the Culture Committee of France’s Senate on Wednesday to answer questions about…
The Trump administration’s push to lift a lower court’s order banning the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago is based on “mischaracterizations” of the facts on the ground, attorneys for the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court on Monday. They urged the high court…
A United Airlines flight diverted to Salt Lake City last week after an object hit the plane’s windshield at 36,000 feet, causing it to crack and injuring the pilot, according to the airline and officials. Amid the mystery of what may have hit the plane’s windshield Monday night, WindBorne Systems, a long-duration smart weather balloon…
Museum heists, particularly those involving historical and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and suspicion for more than a century. In the latest incident of valuable stolen goods, four suspected thieves dressed as construction workers allegedly broke into one of the world’s most famous art museums, the Louvre Museum in Paris, on…
A man who allegedly threatened to shoot at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was arrested after entering an airport terminal on Monday, according to authorities. The man’s family alerted police that the suspect had been broadcasting on social media Monday morning that he was headed to the airport to “shoot” and was in possession of a…
LONDON – When alarms sounded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, four suspects set off on two motorcycles, riding through central Paris, allegedly carrying with them a haul of “priceless” jewels once worn by queens and made of sapphires, diamonds and emeralds. They have not been found yet. About 24 hours after the brazen…
Widespread internet outages were reported early Monday, bringing down popular services such as Snapchat, Fortnite and Roblox, while Amazon Web Services said there was an issue they were working to mitigate. Amazon’s cloud computing company, known as AWS and which supports wide swaths of the publicly available Internet, issued early Monday a series of updates…
