Category Archives: ABC News: Top Stories

Lawmakers approve ban on devices that convert semi-automatic weapons
Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Pentagon aims to cut 50,000 to 60,000 civilians
The Pentagon aims to cut 50,000 to 60,000 civilians -- and 21,000 voluntary resignations have been accepted so far.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Government releases thousands of declassified pages related to JFK assassination
The National Archives has released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

2 NASA astronauts returned to Earth after 9 months. Here are the health impacts
NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come with changes to human physiology and psychology.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Trump signs executive order to expand 'clean' coal, but there's no such thing
President Donald Trump has called for the expansion of U.S. coal production, claiming that an increase of "clean" coal produced in the U.S. will soon take place.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

New York woman pleads guilty to mailing drug-soaked documents to prisons
A New York woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to mailing drug-soaked documents to correctional facilities, according to federal prosecutors.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Chief justice's rebuke of Trump shows deep concern about attacks on courts: ANALYSIS
John Roberts responded after Trump called for a federal judge to be impeached.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional
Elon Musk's attempt to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the United States Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Woman's 1979 cold case rape, murder solved with genetic genealogy
A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, police in Maryland announced.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

Texas measles outbreak grows, nears US' 2024 total
The measles outbreak in western Texas has grown to a total of 279 cases, according to new state data published Tuesday.
ABC News: Top Stories Mar 18, 2025

