Alexander Spatari/Getty Images/STOCK(LOS ANGELES) — An event celebrating the top restaurants in Los Angeles left at least 80 people sickened with norovirus due to an outbreak linked to raw oysters, LA County’s Department of Public Health confirmed to ABC News.The outbreak stemmed from an event at the Hollywood Palladium celebrating the Los Angeles Times’ list…… read more »
Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — U.S. immigration authorities in 2024 removed the largest number of people in the country illegally in a decade, according to a new report.In fiscal year 2024, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 271,484 noncitizens — the highest number since 2014, according to the agency’s year-end report, released Thursday.According to…… read more »
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) — The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in dozens of areas of New Jersey and New York until mid-January, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to “special security reasons.”Uncrewed aerial drones have been lighting up the sky at night in New Jersey…… read more »
Scott Olson/Getty Images(CARISBAD, Calif.) — A judge granted a gun violence protective order against a Carlsbad, California, man who authorities allege was communicating with the Abundant Life Christian School shooting suspect.Carlsbad police filed the application for a gun violence emergency protective order against Alexander Charles Paffendorf in San Diego County Superior Court on Tuesday. FBI agents…… read more »
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images, FILEA judge has denied a motion to dismiss charges in the Uvalde, Texas, criminal case stemming from the 2022 mass shooting and has set a tentative trial date.Former Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, who was the on-site commander at Robb Elementary School on the day of the shooting, and…… read more »
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Luigi Mangione traveled from Georgia to allegedly stalk and kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and said he targeted the health care industry because “it checked every box” — one of a number of entries in a notebook in which the suspect discussed the plot in the weeks before the brazen crime, according…… read more »
Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former chief adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, surrendered Thursday morning at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on bribery and money laundering charges.Lewis-Martin reported to the courthouse in lower Manhattan early Thursday with her son, Glenn Martin II, who faces…… read more »
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement with Amazon over allegations of hazardous workplace conditions, ABC News first reported Thursday. The settlement requires that Amazon adopt “corporate-wide ergonomic measures” to reduce the risk of injuries to workers.The 10 facilities cited in the settlement, located…… read more »
Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ATLANTA) — The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and his co-defendants in their election interference case.”After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and…… read more »
This illustration shows the locations where ABC News tested abandoned oil and gas wells for leaks; ABC News(WEST TEXAS, Texas) — Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and…… read more »
