BREAKING: A Virginia jury found that an assistant principal acted with gross negligence when a student shot his first grade teacher in a lawsuit filed over the 2023 shooting. The jury awarded the teacher, Abby Zwerner, $10 million in damages. abcnews.go.com/US/jury-awards…

D.C.’s Sandwich guy Sean Dunn was found not guilty.

NEWS -- Read our deep dive about why the Department of Justice is probing two top Trump admin officials for interfering with and potentially jeopardizing the ongoing criminal investigations of the president's political adversaries. W/ Peter Charalambous & Alex Mallin

NEW: The Department of Defense said it is launching a "thorough review" into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, citing "serious allegations of misconduct." abcnews.link/DAonUv7

Mrs. Viola Ford Fletcher, known as “Mother Fletcher,” the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. A thread 🧵

BREAKING: The new prosecutor chosen to take over the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case against President Trump and others has requested that the criminal case be dismissed. Read more: abcnews.link/DuD3jET

NEW: Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted in 2024 of trafficking drugs into the U.S., has been freed from prison after he was granted a pardon by President Trump, officials said. abcnews.link/KzRuHA4

NEWS - Federal authorities have arrested a Virginia man in connection with the placement of two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the RNC & DNC the night before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, sources tell me Mike Levine Pierre Thomas Alex Mallin Jack Date

Rutgers declined an invitation to face Georgia Southern at the Birmingham Bowl, per Brett McMurphy. A chaotic Sunday led to the Scarlet Knights being presented the opportunity, but Greg Schiano and company ultimately said no: nj.com/rutgersfootbal…

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, opting for its third interest rate cut this year in an effort to revive a sluggish labor market. Read more: abcnews.link/LZPaf7L

Federal prosecutors on Thursday failed to convince a majority of grand jurors to approve charges that James misled a bank to obtain favorable loan terms on a home mortgage, according to sources. The charges were presented to a grand jury in EDVA's Alexandria branch after a grand

Inflation came in lowest than expected in November. But it's hard to read too much into the data given how much the shutdown impacted data collection. Look at "Table A" in the inflation report. So much is missing...

Speaking on 1010 WINS on 92.3 FM, New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill said she’s considering charging a congestion pricing toll on New Yorkers entering the Garden State for the 2026 World Cup games next summer in MetLife Stadium. “Possibly people coming into our state from New York

Work to rename the Kennedy Center to the “Trump-Kennedy Center” has begun — just one day after the White House announced that the board voted "unanimously" to rename the building. Read more: abcnews.visitlink.me/i-ToXr

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

TILLIS says that whoever went after “vindictive prosecution” against Fed Chair Powell needs to “grow up and give the President better advice”

President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. has been told "on good authority" that the "killing in Iran is stopping." More than 2,500 people have died during nationwide protests in Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. Read more: abcnews.link/AM1deje

Scoop: Some 1,500 active duty soldiers with the 11th Airborne Division on alert for potential deployment to Minnesota. W: Anne Flaherty abcnews.go.com/US/live-update…

Thousands of people have been arrested during ICE operations in Minnesota over the past two weeks. Multiple attorneys allege that for some of those detained, including at least one U.S. citizen, DHS is denying their constitutional right to see an attorney. abcnews.link/DkI8rEI

"They shot him so many times." An unnamed witness provided more details in a federal court filing Saturday night about the shooting in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/Q2iFbap