Category Archives: ABC News: Top Stories

DOJ suing TikTok over alleged 'widespread' child privacy violations
The Justice Department accused TikTok and its parent company of unlawfully collecting and retaining data from children in violation of U.S. privacy laws.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Justice Department sues TikTok, accusing the company of illegally collecting children's data
The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Vitriol about female boxer Imane Khelif fuels concern of backlash against LGBTQ+ and women athletes
LGBTQ+ athletes, officials and observers have warned that a deluge of hateful comments misidentifying a female boxer in the Paris Olympics as transgender or a man could pose dangers for the LGBTQ+ com...
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

DA urges judge in Trump hush money case to deny 'frivolous' recusal motion
Former President Trump failed to identify any new facts to support his third attempt to have the judge in his hush money case recused, the Manhattan DA argued Friday.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Kamala Harris has enough delegate votes to become historic nominee: DNC chair
The Democratic National Committee already deemed Harris the presumptive nominee on Tuesday after she emerged from a process as the only qualified candidate.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

State of emergency issued in Florida, 90% chance of tropical depression developing
A tropical disturbance near Cuba is taking aim at Florida and could strengthen to a tropical depression or tropical storm this weekend.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Trial date set for suspect accused of killing Georgia nursing student
The murder trial for the suspect accused of killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus is expected to start in mid-November.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Justin Timberlake pleads not guilty again in DWI arrest
Justin Timberlake, who has concerts on Saturday and Sunday in Antwerp, Belgium, appeared virtually on Friday in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

U.S. men beaten 4-0 by Morocco and eliminated from the Olympic soccer tournament
The United States was eliminated from the Olympic men’s soccer tournament after a 4-0 loss to Morocco in the quarterfinals
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

Harris and Trump are tied in 538’s new polling averages
Introducing 538's new 2024 presidential polling averages for Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump.
ABC News: Top Stories Aug 02, 2024

