Pauline Conner(NEW YORK) -- When 89-year-old Pauline Conner of Clinton County, Kentucky, learned that her husband would receive the Medal of Honor, she thought it was a scam.Pauline was told that she would receive an important phone call about the matter at 11 a.m. on Friday, so she gathered family members to her home to be by her side in case that call did come.When the phone rang, a voice […]
Bobbie DeHerrera/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested the Pentagon house migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at two Texas military bases: Fort Bliss in El Paso and Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, according to a U.S. official.The decision to locate migrants at Bliss and Goodfellow comes after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last week that it would ask the defense […]
Justin Merriman/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) -- An African-American teenager killed by police while fleeing a traffic stop was laid to rest on Monday during an emotional funeral filled with song, prayer, applause and calls for action.Antwon Rose, 17, was shot dead by an East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officer on June 19 after the teen and two others were pulled over in a car believed to have been connected to an earlier shooting […]
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A man was mysteriously shot dead while at a Southern California campsite with his two young daughters, leaving homicide detectives searching for answers.No arrests have been made in the wake of the Friday morning killing of Tristan Beaudette at Malibu Creek State Park, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office and Department Medical Examiner said Monday.Beaudette, 35, died in front of his 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters inside […]
ABCNews.com(MCALLEN, Texas) -- Border Patrol agents have faced a “huge challenge” over the past two weeks as the Trump administration vowed to separate families who crossed the southwest border illegally and then reversed course, according to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.Asked whether he believes it was a mistake to separate families, McAleenan responded: "I'm saying a better system would allow us to keep families together. So we need […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- At least 52 wildfires are burning throughout the United States, mostly out West, including Alaska. Very hot, very dry conditions have ignited dozens of fires from Texas to Oregon to California, forcing numerous evacuations. A red flag warning and wind advisory were issued Monday morning for parts of Northern California and Nevada, which may see wind gusts of up to 40 mph and relative humidity of only […]
ABCNews.com(SAN FRANCISCO) -- A San Francisco mom says she was "shocked" when her neighbor threatened to call the police on her 8-year-old daughter for selling bottled water without a permit over the weekend. The story went viral on Saturday after Erin Austin filmed the exchange with her neighbor, later identified as Alison Ettel, because she feared the situation might be racially motivated. Her daughter, Jordan, is biracial and Ettel is […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of Brendan Dassey, whose murder conviction was the subject of the Netflix series "Making a Murderer." ABC News has reached out to Dassey's attorney for comment. In 2007, Dassey was convicted as a teenager, along with his uncle Steven Avery, of murdering photographer Teresa Halbach before burning her body. He was sentenced to life in prison. […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(BROWNSVILLE, TX) -- Authorities in Texas are searching for a 15-year-old boy who walked away from the nation's largest children's immigration center, police said Monday. Det. J.J. Trevino of the Brownsville Police Department told ABC affiliate KRGV-TV that officers were called to the center in Brownsville on Saturday after the boy was reported missing from the Southwest Key Casa Padre location. A spokesman for Southwest Key, which runs […]
