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Brookfield Zoo(BROOKFIELD, Ill.) -- Two endangered Amur leopard cubs have been born at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois.The 8-week-old male cubs are "thriving," Amy Roberts, the Brookfield Zoo's senior curator of mammals, told ABC News.As they've grown, the cubs' caregivers have been able to tell them apart by their differing appearances and personalities, Roberts said.The cubs have different spots, and one of them has a bolder personality than the other, […]

Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(BROOKLYN, N.Y.) -- Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to suppress statements prosecutors claim the drug kingpin made during his January 2017 extradition to the United States.In a court filing Thursday, his defense attorneys said that it is not clear whether Guzman had been informed of his rights."Federal agents questioned Mr. Guzman as he was shackled on a DEA plane on its way […]

iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Kan) -- One sheriff's deputy was fatally shot and another was shot and critically wounded when an inmate overpowered them near a Kansas courthouse on Friday, officials said.The deadly altercation took place about 11:30 a.m. when the two Wyandotte County sheriff's deputies in Kansas City pulled into the parking lot and were readying to transporting inmates to court, said Kelli Bailiff of the sheriff's office.It's very possible the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Days before he was scheduled to board a flight from New York to Honduras, Nelson Rosales Santos was told he could stay in the U.S. for another six months as he awaits a kidney transplant and a green card. But that might not be enough time for him to undergo the operation that would save his life, according to his lawyer.Rosales Santos told ABC News how he […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WESTMINSTER, Colo.) -- One male who was among the four people shot Thursday afternoon in a Colorado business complex has died, while his mother and brother were in critical condition, police said.Another male victim was shot in the complex’s parking lot and is expected to survive, authorities said.Police have arrested a suspect. The motive for the attack in Westminster, Colorado, is unknown.Authorities were expected to release the suspect's identity later […]

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- Comedian Bill Cosby has fired all seven attorneys on his legal team just months ahead of his September sentencing, replacing them with a single Pennsylvania criminal-defense lawyer.The move, confirmed by Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt, comes on the heels of the entertainer's April conviction on three counts of felony sexual assault stemming from his 2004 drugging and sexual molestation of Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Monsoon season begins Friday in the Southwest, which could see flash flooding.Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, which haven't seen rain in more than three months, could see 1 to 2 inches of precipitation, courtesy of Hurricane Bud.Monsoon season runs from June to September. It is characterized by shifts in wind patterns in the Southwest. Instead of dry wind coming from the west, the wind comes from the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Authorities are investigating a string of suspicious explosions in Pennsylvania, according to ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV.The most recent explosion occurred Thursday afternoon, when a worker cutting grass hit the suspicious device with a lawnmower, WPVI-TV reported. It left a 2-foot crater in the ground, and both FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents are investigating.The worker was uninjured.Resident Melissa Pfinster was with her kids […]

Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Gabby Giffords is set to join the Stoneman Douglas survivors at a rally and march in Chicago on Friday -- the first event in the young activists' new push to take their voter turnout initiative on the road.Friday night's event kicks off the teenagers' tour called "March for Our Lives: Road to Change," which aims to encourage young people to register and vote in the upcoming […]