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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers during a meeting that was disrupted by protesters who said it criminalizes homelessness. The council voted 11-3 to vastly broaden an existing ban on sitting, sleeping or camping […]

As the Dutch capital baked in the heat, municipal workers sprayed water on bridges over the city’s canals to prevent metal in the constructions expanding which can jam them shut blocking boat traffic, in Amsterdam, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) Free America Network Articles

Sergei Zuyev, the rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, smiles as he leaves a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. A Russian court has ruled to transfer the university rector from jail to house arrest in an embezzlement case that has been seen by […]

BEIJING — Police in southern China are searching for a man who allegedly killed three people and injured six at a kindergarten in the country’s southern province of Jiangxi on Wednesday. The 48-year-old suspect was identified by his surname Liu in a police statement. No further details of the Wednesday […]

More than six months after Texas father David Barnes was arrested by Russian authorities, his family is calling on officials in Washington to do more to try to facilitate his release. “David’s a very caring and empathetic person,” his sister, Carol Barnes, told ABC News. “Every minute of every day, […]

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday that it has opened several lines of investigation against former President Enrique Peña Nieto, several weeks after the country’s anti-money laundering agency accused the former leader of handling millions of dollars in possibly illegal funds. Peña Nieto is under investigation for […]

Jury selection in the trial of former UCLA Health physician James Heaps, who is accused of sexual abuse, began on Monday and is expected to take place the rest of the week. Heaps faces 21 charges in an ongoing criminal case brought against him in a Los Angeles County Superior […]

LOS ANGELES — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night, the team said. He was 94. Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills section […]

A leading House Democrat said Tuesday that she doubts President Joe Biden will renew his bid for the presidency in 2024 — a highly unusual break from insistences by Biden himself. When asked if Biden will run again, New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who is currently seeking reelection for the […]

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone in its investigation into the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told ABC News. The sources told ABC News that attorneys for […]