Photos from the Texas home where David and Louise Turpin lived with their now-adult children nearly two decades ago show a filthy, decrepit interior that most likely had human feces on the walls, the current owner told ABC News. Thirteen siblings, believed to be the Turpins’ biological children, were found […]
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Supreme Court: NC doesn’t have to redraw maps by next week
The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines. The justices announced their decision late Thursday after legal briefs were filed for and against the […]
Trump touts PA GOP candidate Saccone as a ‘great guy’ as special election looms
In a sign that he is eager to involve himself in the coming 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump spoke today in southwestern Pennsylvania in the midst of a special election that could test his support in the same working class areas that propelled him to the presidency. Trump gave […]
House Intel committee has released a transcript from interview with Glenn Simpson
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence publicly released the committee transcript from their seven-hour interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson last November, ABC News has learned. The committee voted to release the transcript in a meeting Thursday morning, according to members. This is a developing story. Please refresh […]
Activist explains why she hopes to change the way America views abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case may have legalized abortion, but a new wave of young, self-described “feminist” women today argue that the court made a mistake. Christina Bennett, who calls herself a “pro-life feminist” is on the front lines of that fight. […]
Horrific new details emerge in case of 13 captive siblings
— Prosecutors revealed grisly details in a press conference today about the captive siblings case out of California. — The brothers and sisters were subject to repeated beatings, including strangulation, and were punished by being chained up, often for weeks or months at a time, prosecutors said. — The victims […]
FBI offers $30,000 reward in unsolved death investigations of 3 women
It’s been seven months since the bodies of three women were found just weeks apart within a four-block radius in North Carolina, and investigators still don’t have answers about what happened to them. The FBI on Wednesday announced a reward of up to $30,000 for information that helps investigators determine […]
Trump businesses see ups and downs a year into the presidency
With his first year in office coming to a close, President Donald Trump recently asked a rally crowd in Pensacola, Florida to consider what he gave up as a businessman in order to pursue the presidency. “Think where I would be right now if I couldn’t I didn’t do this,” […]
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Congress strains to pass stopgap budget, avert shutdown
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he’s confident that his GOP-controlled chamber will pass a stopgap government-wide funding bill, even as growing opposition from Senate Democrats made prospects in that chamber increasingly dicey. President Donald Trump wasn’t helping matters, injecting confusion by tweeting Thursday that a children’s health care program […]