Jaylon Ferguson, a father of three, was found unresponsive in a home Tuesday night. Investigators said there are no signs of trauma or foul play and are trying to determine a cause of death.
John Wood, a Republican lawyer and former federal prosecutor who has helped lead the House Jan. 6 committee's investigation, is leaving his role with the panel this week amid calls for him to instead enter the Missouri Senate race as an independent candidate. Wood, whose last day with the committee is Friday -- though hearings will continue into July -- is expected to explore a bid for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Roy Blunt. Previously a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri and a chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in the second Bush administration, Wood also worked as an aide to former Missouri Sen. John Danforth earlier in his career.
The embattled police chief of the Texas school district where 19 children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting has been placed on administrative leave, the superintendent announced. Pete Arredondo, the police chief for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, has been criticized for his handling of the shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24 that killed 19 third and fourth graders and two teachers, and the decision to delay police entry into the classrooms where the gunman carried out the attack. Arredondo served as the incident commander on the scene of the shooting.
A person was attacked by a shark at a California beach Wednesday, sustaining "significant" injuries from the bite, Pacific Grove police said. Following the shark attack at Lovers Point Beach, the swimmer was transported to Natividad Hospital, the Pacific Grove Police Department said.
Nearly 1 in 5 American adults who have had COVID-19 are still suffering from long-haul symptoms, according to new data collected by the Census Bureau and Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. An estimated 15% of transgender adults were reported to have long COVID-19 symptoms, compared to 5% of cisgender male adults and 9% of cisgender female adults.
Ohio State University was granted a trademark to use the word "THE" on apparel and merchandise to promote its athletic teams. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had previously rejected Ohio State's application, claiming the trademark appeared to be for a "merely decorative manner" and as an "ornamental feature" that didn't function as a trademark that would differentiate the items from others, the Associated Press reported. The USPTO did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment on the approval.
Hailey Bieber's recently launched skin care company is being sued. The 25-year-old model and her Rhode skin care company were hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit this week from owners of a fashion company of the same name, which claims Bieber even offered to purchase the RHODE trademark for clothing four years ago. "Today, we were forced to file a lawsuit against Hailey Bieber and her new skin-care line that launched last week and that is using the brand 'rhode,'" the co-owners of the nine-year-old, minority-owned Rhode clothing company wrote in a statement.
"Everything about him I question," said Quigg, one of four county GOP chairs who told ABC News that they would not vote for Greitens in the general election -- even if it means risking a Democratic victory in a state former President Donald Trump carried by more than 15% in 2020. Quigg isn't alone: Interviews with nearly a dozen current and former Republican Party leaders in Missouri, where voting in the Senate primary began this week, revealed a broad distaste for Greitens and a hesitation by many in the establishment to support him were he to win the nod on Aug. 2.
Nicholas Roske, 26, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to one count of attempting to kill a justice of the United States, two weeks after he was arrested outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanugh's home with a gun. Roske was arrested in the early morning hours of June 8 near Kavanaugh's Maryland home. "Roske stated that he'd been thinking about how to give his life a purpose and decided he would kill the Supreme Court Justice after finding the Justice's Montgomery County address on the internet."
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Wednesday to investigate the National Football League's handling of what lawmakers are calling the Washington Commanders' "toxic" workplace culture, including sexual harassment. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared virtually to face a grilling from committee Democrats. During the roughly two-and-a-half hour hearing, Goodell was questioned about both the team culture in general and allegations about owner Daniel Snyder's personal conduct.
A woman who feared for her life as she was allegedly being held hostage in a New York City apartment found an alternative way to call for help without alerting her captor. Employees at the Chipper Truck Café in Yonkers, just north of Manhattan, received an order placed on Grubhub for a breakfast sandwich and a burger around 5 a.m. on Sunday, the restaurant's owner Alice Bermejo told WABC. "She was basically saying to bring the police with the delivery," Bermejo said.
A search was underway Wednesday for a gunman who shot two people, one fatally, on a packed Muni commuter train in San Francisco, police said. The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. as the light-rail train was moving between stations, according to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Kathryn Winters. Winters said police were initially called to the city's Forest Hill Muni station for a report of a shooting, but the train had already pulled away.
The suburban Minneapolis city of Brooklyn Center has tentatively agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Daunte Wright, the unarmed Black man who was fatally shot during a 2021 traffic stop when a white police officer says she mistook her handgun for a stun gun. The development was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Wright's family, who said the pending agreement includes reforms in Brooklyn Center police policies and training involving traffic stops like the one that led to the death of the 20-year-old Wright. Antonio Romanucci, one of the family's attorneys, said in a statement that Wright's loved ones hope the changes in police policy prevent similar incidents from occurring.
A state senator who represents Uvalde, Texas, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Texas Department of Public Safety, seeking access to the agency's records of its sweeping investigation into the police response to last month's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) is accusing the DPS, the state's top law-enforcement agency, of unlawfully denying his records requests. "From the very start, the response to this awful gun tragedy has been full of misinformation and outright lies from out government," Gutierrez said in the eight-page complaint, filed in Travis County state court in the state's capital of Austin.
A Florida judge told lawyers for the parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie that he will make a decision on whether he will dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by the Petitos in the next few weeks. Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, the parents of Gabby Petito, brought a lawsuit against Christopher and Roberta Laundrie after their daughter was murdered. The Petitos claim in the lawsuit that Brian Laundrie, Petito's boyfriend, told his parents he had killed her before he returned home alone from their trip out West.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to bring into focus Thursday former President Donald Trump's relentless post-Election Day efforts to enlist the Justice Department in his failed bid to overturn his election loss. The committee's fifth hearing this month will feature testimony from three former top officials in the department who say they resisted Trump and his allies' repeated entreaties, former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, former deputy acting attorney general Richard Donoghue and former top DOJ lawyer Steven Engel. All three have previously confirmed that they went as far as joining a group of top White House lawyers in threatening a mass resignation if Trump didn't back away from plans to oust Rosen and replace him with another obscure official in the top echelons of the department who was sympathetic to the president's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
Included in the anti-gun violence legislation announced Tuesday night by a bipartisan group of senators is a measure that supporters hope will help protect victims of domestic violence. Currently, federal law prohibits people convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a gun, but only if they are living with their partner, married to their partner or have a child with their partner. Under the newly-introduced legislation, the definition has been expanded so that individuals in "serious" "dating relationships" who are convicted of domestic abuse would also be prevented from purchasing a gun.
Dramatic police body-camera video released by the New York Police Department captured two officers teaming up on a rush-hour rescue of a woman this week who collapsed on a subway platform and fell onto the tracks. The duo sprang into action around 8:30 a.m. Monday at a subway station in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, according to the NYPD. The officers, whose names have not been released, were on their daily transit inspection when a 25-year-old woman walking ahead of them on a subway platform "suffered a medical episode and fell onto the tracks minutes before a train rolled into the station," the NYPD said in a statement posted on Twitter.
Brad Pitt got candid in a new interview for the August issue of GQ. The Oscar winner, 58, opened up about where he sees himself in his career, feelings of loneliness and how he has put his health first by quitting smoking and attending Alcoholics Anonymous.
After Thursday's hearing, the House Jan. 6 select committee will delay its final hearings for several weeks, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. Initially, the committee was expected to hold its sixth and seventh hearings by the end of June. Chairman Bennie Thompson said later "at least two" are planned for next month starting the week of July 11, after the House returns from the Independence Day recess.
Summer sips have officially hit the menu at Dunkin'. The popular coffee chain shared its latest limited-time seasonal beverage menu on Wednesday. First up, a new brown sugar cream cold brew joins the popular iced beverage menu.