(RICHMOND, Texas) — A homeowner in Texas has threatened to sue Apple after he says a glitch in the “Find My iPhone” app made people think he’s stolen their iPhone and other products.
Scott Schuster took to Instagram on Sunday and claimed that people kept showing up to his Richmond, Texas, home, alleging that the app is pinging his home as the location of their devices.
“I have multiple videos of people very upset and accusing me of stealing their expensive devices,” he wrote.
He told ABC News Houston affiliate KTRK that people have shown up to his home, which he’s lived in since 2018, every few months for the last few years.
Schuster did not respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Schuster shared videos from his doorbell to KTRK of angry people showing up to his home accusing him of having their items, with one threatening to call the police on him.
“I tried to reach out to tech support already and they just closed my ticket,” he wrote on Instagram. Schuster also reached out to Steve Wozniak, a co-founder of Apple, asking for help in resolving the issue.
The “Find My” application is a program that allows Apple users to find their iPhones, AirPods, Apple Watches, MacBooks and other products using a geolocation feature.
Schuster claims that the feature is “clearly” broken in his area, resulting in multiple people showing up at his home in recent years.
In his Instagram post, he tagged Apple and said the company should “expect to receive a lawsuit” from him.
He provided proof to KTRK that he’s reached out to Apple Support many times since the beginning of 2022 and even filed a formal report, but he said nothing has been done to fix the issue.
“I don’t trust humans not to show up drunk and outraged in the middle of the night looking for their phone or AirPods (it has happened before),” he wrote on Instagram. “This creates dangerous scenarios and my house is in the crosshairs.”
Apple did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
(UVALDE, Texas) — Students of the Uvalde Independent Consolidated School District staged a walkout on Wednesday to protest gun violence, acknowledging the 19 elementary school children and two teachers who were killed after the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last May.
Uvalde students said they took inspiration from students in Nashville, Tennessee, who conducted a massive walkout on Monday related to The Covenant School shooting, which left three children and three faculty members dead. That walkout has led to days of peaceful protesting at the Tennessee state house.
Students gathered on the lawn inside the fences of the school, which were put up after the shooting and soon started making their way toward the perimeter.
Junior high students crawled underneath the locked gates to walk off school grounds and joined a march led by the high school students, who are taught on the same campus, to the Uvalde town square, the site of the memorial for the 21 victims of last year’s shooting.
“I’m very proud of my high school peers and everybody here. We saw junior high kids running down main street and that was the coolest thing ever to see the younger kids here helping us out with what we’re trying to protest,” Jackson Rhys Evans, a junior at Uvalde High School, told ABC News.
“I hope what we’re doing inspires other students to walk out of their schools to demand change as well,” Evans added.
Uvalde:365 is a continuing ABC News series focused on the Uvalde community and how it forges on in the shadow of tragedy.
Jazmin Cazares, sister to 9-year-old Jacklyn Cazares who was killed last May, said it’s bittersweet to see so many students come together to protest gun violence.
“I mean look at the crowd. How many kids have been affected by gun violence and this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Cazares told ABC News.
“These are the people most affected by gun violence. They’re getting killed in their schools, they’re bleeding to death on the floor of their classrooms,” she said. “This is bittersweet because none of these kids should be here, they should be in school but instead they have to be here protesting.”
“We’re tired,” a group of students said. “If we don’t talk, who else will?”
“I’m scared of dying every day. I’m scared,” yelled one student.
“We are afraid to go out anywhere. This is everything we think about,” said another, speaking through tears.
Ana Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old daughter Maite Rodriguez was killed in the Robb shooting, was there in support of students.
“It means a lot. Look at them–look at how many kids are out here,” Rodriguez told ABC News. “They’re scared for their lives, and they care about what happened here. That means a lot to me that we have so much support from our students.”
Adam Martinez, parent of a Robb Elementary survivor and a UCISD junior high student, and founder of Uvalde-based community improvement group KARAMA, told ABC News that he has no faith in the district’s ability to make decisions in the best interest of their students.
“I’m disgusted by it,” Martinez said. “I’ve never been impressed by their decisions. They’re reactionary, not proactive. I don’t have confidence in what they do at all. They’re incompetent.”
Democratic Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, has put forth several bills this session to enact gun reform, ranging from banning “kid killer” hollow bullets that expand on contact to establishing a permanent compensation fund for victims of school shootings, with little success among the super-majority Republican legislature.
“Children shouldn’t have to walk out of class so that adults can find the political will to do something to keep them safe,” Gutierrez told ABC News in a written statement. “Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in America. Our young kids are dying in schools nationwide because politicians refuse to change gun laws.”
An email from UCISD that went out on Tuesday read, “The administration has been made aware of a social media call for a walkout on Wednesday, April 5th at noon to draw attention to gun control safety. We intend to be sensitive to this issue and allow students to participate in a controlled walkout… Safety continues to be our top priority, and ensuring our students’ safety outside of our secured fenced area is challenging.”
The district did not respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.
Linkin Park has announced an online Q&A session celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of the band’s hit 2003 album, Meteora.
The livestream will premiere Monday, April 10, at 11 a.m. PT. You can tune in via the Linkin Park YouTube channel and Facebook page, and Mike Shinoda‘s Twitch channel.
The Meteora reissue will be released Friday, April 7. It includes a variety of previously unreleased material from the era, including the single “Lost,” featuring lead vocals by the late Chester Bennington.
“Lost” is currently the #1 single on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts.
(BOSTON) — A Defense Department training exercise in Boston went wrong when federal personnel incorrectly detained a person in a hotel who was not a part of the exercise, according to an FBI spokesperson.
Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, FBI agents helped Department of Defense officials with a training exercise “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment,” the FBI said in a statement.
“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the FBI said.
Nobody was injured, the FBI said.
The person who was incorrectly detained has not been identified.
“Safety is always a priority of the FBI, and our law enforcement partners, and we take these incidents very seriously,” the FBI added. “The Boston Division is reviewing the incident with DOD for further action as deemed appropriate.”
A Defense Department spokesman referred ABC News to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office for information on the incident.
A spokesperson for U.S. Army Special Operations Command said members of the command were conducting “essential military training” with assistance from the FBI-Boston Division at the time.
“The training was meant to enhance soldiers’ skills to operate in realistic and unfamiliar environments. The training team, unfortunately, entered the wrong room and detained an individual unaffiliated with the exercise,” the spokesperson, Lt. Col. Mike Burns, said in a statement. “The Boston Police Department responded to the scene and confirmed that this was indeed a training exercise.”
Burns said they are reviewing this “serious incident” with their partners.
“First and foremost, we’d like to extend our deepest apologies to the individual who was affected by the training exercise,” Burns said. “The safety of civilians in vicinity of our training is always our number one concern.”
ABC News Luis Martinez contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Around 40% of patients with long COVID have moderate to severe sleep issues, according to new analysis of patients treated at Cleveland Clinic’s ReCOver Clinic.
The report, published Tuesday in the journal of Internal Medicine, looked at the sleep patterns of 962 patients who had long COVID between February 2021 and April 2022.
More than half of the patients, 58%, reported normal to mild disturbances, while 41.3% indicated moderate to severe sleep disturbances.
Black patients were significantly more likely to have these disturbances, up to three times more than other races.
“Our findings not only emphasize the importance of identification of sleep disturbance in long COVID considering its impact on patients’ quality of life, daytime functioning and medical health status but they also draw the attention to the persistent inequities seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Pena Orbea in a statement.
Additionally, more than two-thirds of patients, 67.2%, reported moderate to severe fatigue, while 21.8% reported severe fatigue.
“There is an unmet need to understand the neurobiological mechanisms or pathways behind the association of sleep disturbances with long COVID and, per our findings, investigate the reasons for the increased vulnerability of PASC-related sleep disturbance in the Black population so that we can develop race-specific interventions to overcome disparities,” Dr. Reena Mehra, M.D., director of Sleep Disorders Research at Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the report, said in a statement.
The authors also highlighted that people who had greater anxiety severity were at higher risk of having sleep disturbances.
“In our practice, there has been kind of an unequal access to long COVID care, where individuals with inadequate insurance don’t tend to get referred to us as often… a lot of that falls under the lines of minority races…we need to be prepared to make sure that all patients, especially the most vulnerable, due to minority status, and socioeconomic status, they have access to the right physicians to provide the best clinical care for their post COVID complications” said Panagis Galiatsatos, M.D., an assistant professor and physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
“Any patients seeking good care for their long COVID needs to go to a multidisciplinary clinical setting,” he added.
Alaa Diab, MD, an internal medicine resident at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and MPH candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.
For fans of the Yellowstone prequel series 1923, New York City’s Paley Center for Media is offering a chance to get up close to some of the costumes that bring the show to life.
The center is showcasing wardrobe pieces worn by Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer and others from the acclaimed Taylor Sheridan drama.
The organizers tease, “From the rich details and authenticity of the fashion of the era, the exhibit is a must-see for anyone who appreciates the magic of costume design, and the art of storytelling.” The even kicks off Wednesday, April 5, and runs through to Sunday, May 28, at The Paley Museum in New York City.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s indictment in New York is historic: never before has a former president been indicted for an alleged crime.
The closest would have been former President Richard Nixon, who was on the cusp of being indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts for his role in the 1970s Watergate scandal. His resignation and pardon by President Gerald Ford spared both Nixon and the nation from enduring a potential criminal federal presidential trial.
Now Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in Manhattan on 34 felonies pertaining to an alleged scheme to catch and kill disparaging stories ahead of the 2016 election has opened up many questions including the role and scope of Secret Service protection, including whether it would extend to him if he were convicted and incarcerated.
Trump has entered a not guilty plea and he and his legal team have vehemently denied the allegations.
Protection of the president by the Secret Service began in 1901 after three presidents — Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley — were assassinated. Former presidents began receiving protection around 1958 under the Former Presidents Act, which mandated lifetime protection of former presidents of the United States who have not been removed from office solely pursuant to Article II of the Constitution.
At the time there were two living former presidents: Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman. But it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former World War II general who led the Allies effort to beat the Axis powers, who was the first to receive this benefit.
The basis of Secret Service protection is “threat-based” and most current and former presidents receive thousands of threats while in and outside of office.
Under 18 USC 3056, the United States Secret Service is mandated by federal law to provide protection for the sitting president and their family, the vice president and their family, as well as a list of others including former president’s and first ladies and their children under 16 “for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage.”
Although the law is clear, some have conflated the Secret Service protective mission with some type of an allegiance to an individual. Others have misinterpreted that steps the Secret Service may take to implement their protective methodology as making requests on behalf of a protected person. Neither is the Secret Service’s role and the law and mission are clear — to provide protection as a singular focus.
Congress, however, has changed the law regarding protection over the years and specifically for former presidents. In 1994, a legal change limited post-presidential protection to 10 years for presidents inaugurated after Jan. 1, 1997, which was signed into law by then President Bill Clinton. This meant that any president after Clinton would only receive protection for 10 years.
On Jan. 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 which reinstated lifetime Secret Service protection for former President George W. Bush, who had a myriad of terrorist threats aimed at him post 9/11. Obama, who had ordered the mission against Osama Bin Laden, had also received threats. They and all subsequent presidents would get lifetime protection.
By law, only the sitting president, vice president, president-elect and vice president-elect cannot decline protection. Everyone else on the list, including former presidents are able to decline protection, if they choose to do so. Nothing in the statue, as written, forces someone who receives Secret Service protection to lose that protection under any circumstance other than death or, in the case of a former first lady, remarriage.
As such, the question about how protection would work if a former President were to go to jail has a clear answer.
Simply, the law mandates it and the Secret Service would have to provide protection, even in jail, as only the protectee may end it.
Congress could change the law but, historically, the only ex-president with Secret Service protection to ever end it was former President Nixon, who left the White House in 1974 and ended his protection in 1985.
Donald J. Mihalek is an ABC News contributor, retired senior Secret Service agent and regional field training instructor who served during two presidential transitions. He was also a police officer and served in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Johnny Depp‘s first film project following his 2022 defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard is headed to the Cannes Film Festival.
As reported, Depp played King Louis XV for French director Maïwenn’s based-on-real-life love story Jeanne du Barry.
The French language film will debut at the festival on July 16 — the same day it hits movie theaters in France, according to Deadline.
According to the trade, Maïwenn plays the eponymous main character in the film about the courtesan who worked her way into the king’s court and his heart, while keeping her position in the world’s oldest profession a secret.
Elvis Presley’s life and legacy will once again be celebrated at Graceland this summer, with Elvis Week set to go down August 9-17 in Memphis, Tennessee.
This year marks the 46th year of Elvis’ passing. Elvis Week will once again include a candlelight vigil at Graceland’s Front Gate on August 15, which will be streamed online for fans. Elvis Week will also include an August 15 celebration of Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who passed away in January.
There will be anniversary celebrations of two classic Elvis TV specials: On August 14, the 55th anniversary of the 1968 NBC comeback special will be marked with an enhanced screening, while the Aloha From Hawaii 50th Anniversary Concert will take place August 16. Both celebrations will feature a live band, special guests and more at the Graceland Soundstage.
Tickets, as well as a complete lineup of Elvis Week guests and activities, can be found at ElvisWeek.com.
(WINONA, Minn.) — A Minnesota mother of two has been missing for nearly a week under “suspicious” circumstances, said police, who are investigating whether foul play is involved.
Madeline Kingsbury, 26, was last seen Friday morning, police said. She and her children’s father dropped the children off at a day care shortly after 8 a.m. before returning to her home in Winona, according to Winona Police Chief Tom Williams. The children’s father told police he left the house in Kingsbury’s van around 10 a.m., but when he returned later that day, Kingsbury was not there, Williams said at a press conference Wednesday.
Kingsbury did not show up for work that day. She also did not respond to “numerous” calls and messages from friends and family and failed to pick up her children from day care that afternoon, which is “extremely out of character for her,” police said.
“We believe Maddi’s disappearance is involuntary, suspicious and we are all concerned for her safety,” said Williams.
There is no indication Kingsbury left home on foot or in another vehicle, and her cellphone, wallet and ID were found in the house, Williams said.
Investigators obtained surveillance video showing a van matching the description of Kingsbury’s leaving and returning to the area of her home between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Williams said. Authorities said they could not share information at this time on who was driving it.
“Based on the investigation, we know that the children were dropped off at the day care and that the van returned home,” said Williams, adding that “the investigation is still open and ongoing as to what happened upon returning home.”
Williams asked residents in surrounding areas to check their home cameras for signs of a dark blue minivan “driving by or stopping.” The Winona Police Department has also requested that residents of Winona and nearby Wilson Township and Hillsdale Township search their property “for anything suspicious that may help find Madeline.”
Authorities said they have not identified any suspects or persons of interest.
Kingsbury’s family announced Wednesday they are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.
“Please help us find Madeline,” her sister, Megan Kingsbury, said during emotional comments at the press conference. “Her children need their mother. We need our daughter, our sister, our aunt and our best friend back.”
Her sister described Kingsbury as a “hard-working and dedicated mother” who works for the Mayo Clinic and is a graduate student.
Her children — a 2-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl — are safe, the police chief said.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is assisting in the investigation.
“We are very hopeful we will find her,” Williams said.
Police described Kingsbury as 5-foot-4 and weighing 135 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Winona Police Department at 507-457-6288.
