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Winter Weather Alerts have been extended to 28 states, stretching from Texas to Maine, as a new storm system builds. At least 13 people have died in weather-related accidents in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri over the last two days. Because of that storm system, 185 accidents were reported Monday just […]

The TAKE with Rick Klein The “Trump Bump” went bust. And it happened as President Donald Trump tested out new midterm material – even accusing Democrats of “treason” for not applauding during his State of the Union address. The president is clearly ready for midterm politics. But as the split-screen […]

President Donald Trump’s close advisers and lawyers have cautioned him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with special counsel Robert Mueller and his team, sources tell ABC News. Trump’s two top lawyers — John Dowd and Jay Sekulow — began meeting in December with members of the special counsel’s […]

Members of the “Dancing with the Stars” tour are on the mend after they were caught up in a massive pileup on I-35 in Ames, Iowa, on Monday. A winter storm snarled traffic and caused dozens of crashes in Iowa, with one of the tour buses used to transport cast […]

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 5:45 a.m. The turmoil in global stock markets has echoes with what’s been going on with bitcoin, the hugely volatile virtual currency, which rose exponentially to around $20,000 last year before a precipitous slump. Many in the markets think assets […]

President Donald Trump traveled to Ohio Monday to tout the economy and the recently-enacted tax law – in a preview of his message against Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. While the White House insisted the trip was not political – Trump at one point took aim at Democratic lawmakers […]

With ISIS nearly defeated on the battlefield, the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition has shifted its focus in Iraq from enabling the Iraqi military’s combat operations to maintaining those gains as ISIS becomes an insurgency. The move will lead to a realignment of some of the 5,600 U.S. forces in Iraq as […]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is now expected to skip his scheduled appearance Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee, according to sources familiar with his plans. The move sets the stage for a showdown with lawmakers who had issued a bipartisan subpoena for his testimony. Bannon was ordered […]

An El Paso County sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Monday. Deputy Micah Flick, 34, was killed while investigating a motor vehicle theft, Sheriff Bill Elder said at a press conference this evening. The male suspect opened fire, killing Flick and injuring two other sheriff’s deputies […]

Two Washington state women who were separately clam digging with their husbands Friday night went missing “four minutes” apart — and eerily drowned in the same waters, authorities said. Each woman had completed digging for razor clams and vanished while attempting to return to their vehicles. Both women washed ashore […]