(NEW YORK) — A 17-year-old suspect was arrested early Saturday in connection with the shooting outside of a New York City high school the previous day that left one teen dead and two others injured, police said.
The unidentified suspect was located Friday night, just hours after the incident outside the South Bronx Educational Campus, and was taken into custody following a brief standoff at his home, police said.
Angellyh Yambo, 16, was killed in the shooting and two other unidentified teens were wounded, police said.
A weapon believed to be a ghost gun, a weapon that is typically sold in parts online, was found nearby the suspect’s home, according to police.
Police haven’t yet determined a motive behind the shooting. The investigation is ongoing,
(AUSTIN, Texas) — Eleven people were injured after a car crash involving multiple pedestrians and a food truck in Austin, Texas, Friday.
A car crashed into an unidentified food truck around 8:35 p.m. at 1800 Barton Springs Road in South Austin, according to Austin-Travis County EMS. Officials said two vehicles were involved in a T-bone collision, with one being pushed into a group of pedestrians at the food truck.
FINAL Major Collision involving multiple vehicles & pedestrians at 1800 Barton Springs Rd: 11 total involved: 9 patients transported (2 serious potentially life-threatening, 7 non-life-threatening, 2 no patients). MEDIA brief information to follow in a separate tweet.
Nine people were transported to the hospital, EMS said, including two people in “potentially life-threatening” condition. There were seven people transported with non-life-threatening injuries, though two had “potentially serious” injuries. Two others were treated on scene.
Six patients were taken to South Austin Medical Center, including one with life-threatening injuries and five others with non-life-threatening injuries.
Three patients were taken to Dell Seton Medical Center, including the other patient with life-threatening injuries.
Capt. Christa Stedman of the Austin-Travis County EMS said at 8:42 p.m. the first ambulances arrived and 911 calls began to flood in.
Stedman, a public information officer with the Austin-Travis County EMS, added that all of the patients involved were adults.
The drivers involved are cooperating with police.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr contributed to this report.
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(BOISE, Idaho) — The Idaho Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a new law that bans nearly all abortions in the state while a legal challenge plays out in court.
The court issued a stay on implementation of the bill, set to go into effect on April 22, in a ruling on Friday, more than a week after Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit seeking to reverse the restrictive abortion law.
The state has until April 28 to respond to the court.
The law bans abortions once cardiac activity in a fetus is detected, which happens at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Many women are unaware at six weeks that they are pregnant.
The suit was filed on March 30 in Idaho’s Supreme Court on behalf of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky and Dr. Caitlin Gustafson, a health care provider who performs abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics, according to court documents.
The bill was signed by Gov. Brad Little on March 23, making Idaho the first state to model legislation after Texas’ abortion ban.
“It should be clear to everyone that the Idaho state legislature intentionally abandoned the ordinary rule of law when they passed this six-week abortion ban. Then the governor joined their effort to deny his constituents their constitutional rights when he signed the abortion ban into law — despite his own acknowledgement that it was wrong,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a press release announcing the legal challenge.
The law would also allow the father, grandparents, siblings, uncles or aunts of the fetus to sue a medical provider that performs the procedure and collect a reward of at least $20,000 for a successful claim filed within four years of an abortion, according to Planned Parenthood.
The law’s “enforcement mechanism and substance are blatantly unconstitutional, so much so that Idaho’s Attorney General’s Office released an opinion to this effect, and the Governor emphasized similar concerns upon signing,” the lawsuit states.
In a letter to Janice McGeachin, the lieutenant governor and president of the state’s senate, Little criticized the bill, saying, “I stand in solidarity with all Idahoans who seek to protect the lives of preborn babies.”
He then added, “While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise.”
In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood asked the court to rule that the bill is “unlawful and unenforceable” and forbid Idaho courts from implementing civil cases as the bill allows.
Without intervention from the court, the law would go into effect, “wreaking havoc on this State’s constitutional norms and the lives of its citizens,” according to the lawsuit.
“The abortion ban blatantly undermines patients’ right to privacy. It also improperly and illegally delegates law enforcement to private citizens, violating the separation of powers and allowing plaintiffs without injury to sue, in violation of the Idaho Constitution,” Planned Parenthood said.
Added Rebecca Gibron, the interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky: “This law is a cruel overreach by politicians so intent on controlling the lives of their constituents that they’re willing to compromise our constitutional rights and compromise our health and safety, all in order to ban abortion.”
The lawsuit requests emergency relief by April 21 to prevent the implementation of the abortion ban before it becomes law.
“Unless this abortion ban is stopped, Idahoans will watch in real time as their government strips them of the very rights they were sworn to protect. Everyone deserves to make their own decisions about their bodies, families, and lives — and we’re going to keep fighting to make sure that is a reality,” McGill Johnson said.
The owner of a successful company frets over buying a couch. A single mother, with $25,000 in credit card debt, refuses to say no to her son’s plea for a new car. When it comes to money, what makes these people act this way? Brent Kessel, MSN Money’s finance expert, says a lot of people find themselves stuck in awkward patterns with money. And many financial experts say it’s because of our “money makeup,” which are ideas formed early in life that control a person’s spending, giving and investment decisions. Understanding these forces is the key to changing bad financial behaviors for good. There are several money personality types. Which one are you?
The Guardian. This is a person who’s hyper-careful with their money and always alert about what they are spending.
The Pleasure Seeker is someone who values enjoyment and instant gratification above all else.
The Saver. This person seeks security and abundance by accumulating plenty of financial assets.
The Caretaker gives and lends money to express compassion and generosity.
The Star, who spends, invests or gives away money to be recognized, feel hip and to increase their self-esteem.
The Innocent. This person doesn’t pay too much attention to money. He believes life will work out for the best.
The Empire Builder This person thrives on power and innovation to create something of lasting value. Kessel says the happiest people have a good balance of traits from several of these personalities. Unfortunately, most people have one or two dominant styles that keep them stuck with bad financial habits – especially when it comes to investing. For example, The Star chooses assets because they’re in vogue, such as hedge funds and “green” companies for the future. For this person, Kessel advises investing 90% of their worth in a “boring” responsible portfolio, and only 10% in what he calls a “cocktail party” account. That way they’ll still have investments to brag about.
If you want to learn more about your money personality, and how to improve your spending, saving and investing habits? Check out It’s Not About the Money by Brent Kessel.
New research says if we’re watching our weight, dinner should be at 2PM!
The study was conducted by Louisiana State University – they were testing the effects of fasting at night. They had two groups of people eating the same number of calories… one group could eat for half the day – 8am to 8pm. The other group had to consume all their calories in half that time… between 8am and 2pm… and then fast for the next 18 hours.
The result?
The group that stopped eating at 2pm and fasted for 18 hours burned more calories, and had an easier time controlling their hunger throughout the day.
So if you’re trying to lose weight and manage your appetite, try eating all your daily calories between8am and 2pm. Without changing anything you’re eating – only the TIME when you’re eating. The experts say you will seriously move the scale.
And listen, I know that’s no fun on the weekends when we all want to have a couple of social dinners. So, just implement the Louisiana State “fast” Monday through Friday. And you’ll still reshape your body in no time.
Why does your back hurt? Here are a few common reasons:
First: Belly fat. Dr. Alice Chen is with the Hospital for Special Surgery… and she says, when you have a big belly, it often stresses your lower back because you’re using it as a counterweight to your belly. And fat in the spine can compress the nerves.
Another reason you may have back pain: Happy hour! According to WebMD, alcohol reduces blood flow to the discs in the spine, and inflames the supporting muscles. And if you’re not a big drinker but you’re recovering from a spell of back pain, don’t drink. It’ll slow your healing.
One more reason for your back pain: You do strength training AND yoga. Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, and author of “Back Mechanic.” And he says it may seem great to cover all your bases with different exercises. But when you do yoga, the collagen in your spinal discs softens to help you bend. And when you lift weights, the collagen hardens. So mixing the two training styles can lead to back problems
It seems as though the speculation that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had gotten engaged — again — isn’t speculation at all: It’s true.
ABC News has confirmed that the couple, who originally broke off their first engagement in 2004, are once again set to wed. People was the first to report the news, citing a rep for Jennifer. The Marry Me star also added a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter handle, and tweeted a video teasing “a really exciting and special story to share.”
She directed her fans to her online community OntheJlo, where People reported that she posted a clip of herself admiring a huge green diamond ring. The clip was shared on her sister Lynda Lopez‘s Instagram, with the caption, “So this happened.”
Jennifer and Affleck, aka “Bennifer,” rekindled their romance last summer after Jennifer broke up with Alex Rodriguez. If the couple makes it to the altar, it’ll be the Jennifer’s fourth marriage, and Affleck’s second. Jennifer shares twins Max and Emme, 14, with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Affleck has three kids with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
Speaking about her reunion with Affleck, Jennifer told People earlier, “It’s a beautiful outcome that this has happened in this way at this time in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other.”
Bennifer’s first engagement ended, in part, due to the media attention surrounding their relationship.
(NEW YORK) — The New York Attorney General’s Office asked a judge Friday to force Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with the civil investigation of former President Donald Trump.
The motion to compel followed two subpoenas, one issued this past February and another in September of last year, that sought documents and records associated with several Trump properties: 40 Wall Street, a skyscraper in Manhattan; Seven Springs, an estate in Westchester, New York; and Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles.
Cushman & Wakefield handled the appraisals of those properties, which have come under civil investigation by the attorney general’s office over possible manipulation as the Trump Organization sought tax breaks and favorable lending terms.
Trump and The Trump Organization have denied any wrongdoing. ABC News has reached out to both for comment on the attorney general’s new request.
Cushman & Wakefield, which has not been accused of any wrongdoing, complied with a subpoena issued early in the investigation, but said the two more recent ones were overly broad and amounted to harassment of the company.
“Cushman & Wakefield’s work for the Trump Organization is significant to our ongoing investigation into Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization’s financial practices,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “There should be no doubt that information about Cushman’s appraisal work for the Trump Organization is relevant to our efforts and that Cushman — like any other party — cannot defy a lawful subpoena because no one is above the law.”
ABC News has reached out for comment from Cushman & Wakefield.
The commercial brokerage, which also handled office leasing at several Trump properties, cut ties with Trump after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying in a statement at the time, “Cushman & Wakefield has made the decision to no longer do business with The Trump Organization.”
The Trump Organization purchased Seven Springs, the 212-acre property in Mount Kisco, New York, in 1995, hoping to develop a golf course and, when that was rejected, luxury homes.
In 2004, the Trump Organization valued the property at $80 million; in 2007 they valued it at $200 million; and by 2012, they valued it at $291 million, based on the contention the property was zoned for nine homes worth a supposed $161 million of profit, the attorney general’s office said.
Two separate professional appraisers valued the lots that were supposedly going to be developed at fractions of the prices used in the Trump Statement of Financial Condition, the attorney general’s office said.
The attorney general’s office has also raised questions about the true value of the Trump leasehold interest in 40 Wall Street. Outside appraisals conducted by Cushman & Wakefield in 2010-2012 for Capital One, which held a $160 million mortgage on the building, valued the Trump Organization’s interest in the property between $200 million and $220 million.
During the same period, according to the attorney general’s office, Trump’s financial statements represented that 40 Wall Street had a valuation of $601.8 million in 2010, $524.7 million in 2011, $527.2 million in 2012 and $530.7 million in 2013. Those values were between two and three times as much as recorded in the three consecutive appraisals.
(WASHINGTON) — The two men accused of impersonating federal law enforcement agents are a risk to national security, government prosecutors said in a court document, pushing to keep the men in custody Friday.
“In compromising at least four members of the USSS, they caused a risk to national security and the functioning of an essential government agency protecting the nation’s leadership,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Rothstein wrote in the document. “Because of the nature and circumstances of the Defendants’ conduct, this factor points in favor of detention.”
The judge did not make a ruling on their detention Friday. The parties will be back in court Monday.
Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali stand accused of impersonating federal law enforcement agents as well as giving lavish gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents and their families. The pair was arrested on Wednesday.
“They are not law enforcement agents, and they are not involved in sanctioned covert activities,” prosecutors wrote in the detention memo. “Neither Defendant is even employed by the United States government. But their impersonation scheme was sufficiently realistic to convince other government employees, including law enforcement agents, of their false identities.”
The federal government also alleges that after Taherzadeh was arrested, he was interviewed and admitted to posing as a law enforcement officer and providing free rent to U.S. Secret Service agents. He also allegedly provided a “doomsday bag,” generator, flat-screen television, two iPhones, a drone, a gun locker, a Pelican gun case and a mattress to agents and officers of the Secret Service.
Lawyers for the government were grilled by Judge Michael Harvey on the source of the funding of the men, saying they could have put all of the charges on credit, and asking whether any gifts were exchanged between U.S. Secret Service agents and the two men.
“Who is funding the scheme? If it is Mr. Ali buying that day’s lunch at Chick-fil-A, it’s far less important,” Harvey said.
Both of those answers, the government acknowledged, they do not know.
“The scale of the comprised situation that they created is quite large and it’s causing us to have to send agents out to interview many, many people. These aren’t people just dressing up for Halloween. This is very serious,” Rothstein said.
In an interview with agents, Taherzadeh said his co-conspirator Ali “funded most of their day to day operation,” but he did not know the source of the money.
The assistant U.S. attorney said Ali has “some sort of citizenship status in Pakistan,” citing an ID card from the country. The government said they will do more digging over the weekend. Ali, Rothstein said, was born in Pakistan. The identification card is “relevantly new”
Rothstein also revealed the men had immigration documents of certain people who are in the building and the government is trying to figure out if those documents are real.
The government also revealed Taherzadeh was a special police officer, which, according to Rothstein, is a contracted company that stands in building lobbies, and the suspect was working in this capacity at “some time.”
“I don’t want to spend time with additional amorphous representation,” Harvey told the prosecutors, asking for more details for the entirety of the case.
Charging documents unsealed Wednesday show the men attempted to gift members of the Secret Service not only rent worth up to $40,000 but also weapons, including offering to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a member of first lady Jill Biden’s detail.
Prosecutors said in the court filing they “compromised” U.S. Secret Service “personnel involved in protective details and with access to the White House complex by lavishing gifts upon them, including rent-free living.”
The government added, “They procured, stored, and used all the tools of law enforcement and covert tradecraft: weaponry, including firearms, scopes, and brass knuckles; surveillance equipment, including a drone, antennae, hard drives, and hard drive copying equipment; tools to manufacture identities, including a machine to create Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards and passport photographs; and tactical gear, including vests, gas masks, breach equipment, police lights, and various law enforcement insignia.”
An assistant U.S. Attorney representing the government said at a previous court hearing on Thursday that Ali has “claimed to witnesses to have connections to the ISI, which is the Pakistani Intelligence Service,” and the government found three Pakistani visas as well as two Iranian visas “from July 31 2018 through December 28 2019 and December 28 2019 through January 25 2020. And we know that because the conduct in the complaint starts in February 2020.”
Prosecutors have also alleged the men kept binders full of residents who lived in the luxury Washington, D.C., Navy Yard building. Several residents who spoke to ABC News were disturbed by the details outlined in the government’s allegations, including that the accused had a list of residents in the complex.
“It was pretty crazy, I just got home from work and I just saw a bunch of FBI agents in the lobby,” building resident Thomas Lee told ABC News. “It’s scary. It’s my place of living. … I just came home and then there’s just FBI agents. I’m like … what’s going on?”
(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — In the latest salvo of legislation targeting LGBTQ youth, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law two bills banning transgender health care for minors and teaching about gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through fifth grade.
The Alabama legislature passed the two bills focusing on transgender youth a day prior. SB 184 bans gender-affirming care, while HB 322 bans trans students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. HB 322 also limits LGBTQ content in classrooms due to a last-minute amendment.
SB 184, the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, states that anyone who provides gender-affirming care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy or physical gender-affirming surgeries — to anyone under 18 could be convicted of a felony and face up to 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
Several Alabama physicians has said the legislation is riddled with misinformation about how gender-affirming care actually affects children.
“When lawmakers attempt to practice medicine with a life without a license, they realize quickly that there was a lot more they didn’t understand than what they thought they did,” Morissa Ladinsky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, previously told ABC News.
For instance, the bill would ban minors from receiving gender-affirming “surgical procedures,” but in Alabama, such surgeries aren’t allowed until a patient reaches the age of legal majority for medical decisions, which is 19.
The legislation also makes the claim that puberty blockers can cause infertility or other health risks. According to Ladinsky, these potential side effects only present real risks after puberty and are not a risk to youth taking puberty blockers.
“I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl,” Ivey said in a statement after signing the bill into law. “We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be.”
The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Shay Shelnutt, has called gender-affirming health care “child abuse.”
“We don’t want parents to be abusing their children. We don’t want to make that an option, because that’s what it is; it’s child abuse. This is just to protect children,” Shelnutt said Feb. 23 on the state Senate floor.
Courtney Roark, the Alabama policy & movement building director for the youth-led reproductive rights nonprofit URGE, slammed the bill’s passage as an attack on bodily autonomy for trans youth and their families.
“In yet another attack on our bodies, our autonomy, and our desire to live happy and healthy lives, Alabama politicians have passed and signed into law a bill that would criminalize doctors, principals, teachers, school counselors and nurses for providing gender-affirming care and support to trans and non-binary youth,” Roark said. “Trans and non-binary youth in our state and across the country already face extraordinary barriers to accessing the liberated and joyous lives they deserve.”
HB 322 would require students in public K-12 schools to only use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their assigned sex at birth.
Alabama state Rep. Scott Stadthagen, the sponsor of the bill, said the bill does not target transgender students.
“Almost every school district in this state is dealing with this issue with opposite genders wanting to use opposite bathrooms,” Stadthagen has said in debate. “I find this to be a safety issue. It is for protection of our students.”
“Here in Alabama, men use the men’s room, and ladies use the ladies’ room — it’s really a no brainer,” Ivey said in a statement. “This bill will also ensure our elementary school classrooms remain free from any kind of sex talk.”
An amendment to this bill would also prohibit classroom instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through the fifth grade in public K-12 schools. The language mirrors the controversial so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bills popping up across the country.
Ivey took issue with that characterization, saying in a statement, “Let me be clear to the media and opponents who like to incorrectly dub this the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ amendment: That is misleading, false and just plain wrong. We don’t need to be teaching young children about sex. We are talking about five-year-olds for crying out loud. We need to focus on what matters – core instruction like reading and math.”
LGBTQ suicide awareness group The Trevor Project condemned the passage of such bills.
“On likely the last day of Alabama’s legislative session, lawmakers have added last-minute votes to push the most extreme anti-transgender agenda we’ve seen to date — all within a matter of hours,” said Sam Ames, director of advocacy and government affairs for The Trevor Project.
“These policies are not only cruel and unnecessary, they are unpopular among a majority of Americans,” they continued. “Criminalizing doctors, isolating trans youth from their support systems and stigmatizing conversations around LGBTQ identity will only fuel more bullying, anxiety and suicide risk among these youth.”
