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Highlight Pro Skydiving TeamBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- A team of all-female elite skydivers is taking to the skies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.The 11 members of the Highlight Pro Skydiving Team will jump from the skies Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, which was the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, […]

Dmitry Belyaev/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- California health officials have confirmed that an individual has tested positive for a case of the plague in the state -- the first such case in five years.El Dorado County health officials were notified by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) that a resident in South Lake Tahoe had tested positive for the plague and that it is thought that person, […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Several new wildfires have exploded in the West due to lightning and bone dry conditions on the ground. There are currently at least 28 wildfires burning in California alone which puts the national total to more than 100 wildfires. Here is the latest information on the recent fires: The Holser fire in Lake Piru, Ventura County is 1,200 acres and 15% contained. […]

iStock/KuzmaBY: CHRIS FRANCESCANI(CHICAGO) -- Despite "substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures," the dismissal of charges against Jussie Smollett by Cook County State's Attorney Kimberly Foxx and her staff did not rise to the level of criminal wrongdoing, according to Special Prosecutor Dan K. Webb.In Jan. 2019, the former "Empire" actor told police he was targeted in a racist and homophobic attack in which he claimed the attackers struck him, […]

iStock/carlballouBY: AARON KATERSKY(NEW YORK) -- Karl Jordan and Ronald Washington have been charged with murdering Run DMC's Jam Master Jay in 2002 while engaged in cocaine trafficking, according to an indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of New York that also charged the two with drug offenses.The pioneering DJ Jason Mizell was shot in the head at point-blank range with a .40-caliber handgun as he sat on a sofa in […]

iStock/smolaw11BY: MEREDITH DELISO(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- A week after its first day of classes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced it will be shifting all undergraduate classes remotely amid several outbreaks of COVID-19 on campus.Starting Wednesday, all undergraduate in-person instruction will go digital for the rest of the fall semester, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz and Executive Vice Chancellor Robert A. Blouin said in a letter to the […]

iStock/Andrei StanescuBY: QUINN OWEN(WASHINGTON) -- The federal government agency that handles United States asylum requests, processes visa applications and grants citizenship is preparing to furlough most of its employees while would-be citizens remain stuck waiting to get naturalized ahead of the November election.Originally planned for the beginning of August, the furloughs were bumped back to the end of the month after Democrats and independent immigration experts questioned whether such action […]

iStock/MattZ90BY: ALEXANDER MALLIN(HONOLULU) -- The United States Department of Justice arrested and charged a former intelligence officer with the CIA and FBI for selling highly classified U.S. secrets to China, according to court records unsealed in Hawaii on Monday.Federal prosecutors said Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, a 67-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen living in Honolulu, worked as a CIA officer from 1982 to 1989 -- and starting as early as 2001, an […]

ABC NewsBY: AARON KATERSKY(HONOLULU) -- Actress Lori Loughlin should spend two months in prison for cheating her daughter's way into the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said Monday in a memo to the judge ahead of her sentencing Friday.Loughlin's husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, should spend five months in prison and the couple should pay a fine of $400,000, the memo stated.Both stars pleaded guilty to their involvement in […]