,action news,6abc,wpvi,wpvi-tv,philadelphia news,VHtKW9EQAvI,Biden Pardons , Politics,Society, channel_UCw77677G3EAODp61b0izs7w, video_VHtKW9EQAvI,President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted on tax evasion and federal gun charges and is due for sentencing in December.
Despite the White House's assurances last month that the president had no intentions of pardoning his son, the announcement came through on Sunday evening that he had pardoned him.
In a statement, he said, "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," for what he called a "miscarriage of justice."
#joebiden #hunterbiden #news #fyp #fypage
https://6abc.com/post/president-joe-biden-issues-pardon-son-hunter-gun-tax-charges-claiming-prosecution-was-influenced-politics/15611357/
,1,Two people were killed and another person was injured after a fiery three-vehicle crash involving a tanker crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
It happened late Saturday morning in the northbound lanes of the Northeast Extension (I-476) in Worcester Twp. between the Mid-County and Lansdale exits.
Police say a vehicle was stopped in the right lane of the multi-lane highway due to a flat tire. Another driver stopped to help and pulled behind the car with its hazard lights on. #pennsylvania #crash
,1,Two people were killed and another person was injured after a fiery three-vehicle crash involving a tanker crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
It happened late Saturday morning in the northbound lanes of the Northeast Extension (I-476) in Worcester Twp. between the Mid-County and Lansdale exits. #crash #pennsylvania #news
https://6abc.com/pennsylvania-turnpike-crash-pa-highway-tanker-truck-montgomery-county/13949524/
,1,Two people were killed and another person was injured after a fiery, multi-vehicle crash involving a tanker crash and several other vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, sources tell Action News. Read more: https://6abc.com/pennsylvania-turnpike-crash-pa-highway-tanker-truck-montgomery-county/13949524/
,1,Two people were killed and another person was injured after a fiery, multi-vehicle crash involving a tanker crash and several other vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, sources tell Action News. Read more: https://6abc.com/pennsylvania-turnpike-crash-pa-highway-tanker-truck-montgomery-county/13949524/
,1,Rep. Jim Jordan lost his first bid for the speakership. He received 200 votes, but needed at least 217 to clinch the gavel.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, nominated by Democrats, received 212 votes. Twenty lawmakers voted for someone else.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, toppled by a small group of GOP hard-liners on Oct. 3, voted for Jordan to be his successor. #politics #news #housespeaker
https://6abc.com/jim-jordan-speakers-race-house-of-representatives-congress/13928276/
,1,Charges were filed against three white boaters who allegedly assaulted a Black ferry co-captain, sparking a racially charged melee at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday night that was captured on bystander videos that went viral.
Montgomery Police Department Chief Darryl Albert identified the victims in this case as co-captain of the Harriet II and dock employee Damien Pickett, a Black male. He also mentioned an unnamed 16-year-old white male juvenile who was allegedly struck by the owners and operators of the private boat that was blocking the riverboat from docking.
Richard Roberts, a 48-year-old white male, is facing two outstanding warrants for assault in the third degree, Allan Todd, a 23-year-old white male is facing one warrant for assault in the third degree and Zachary Shipman, a 25-year-old white male, is facing one warrant for assault in the third degree.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/massive-brawl-on-alabama-dock-worker-attacked-folding-chair-montgomery-riverfront/13614150/
,1,Federal and local authorities are looking for the suspects who they say are responsible for at least five armed robberies in the suburbs of Philly.
Read more: https://6abc.com/7-eleven-robbery-philadelphia-crime-upper-southampton-township-armed-robberies/13581175/
,1,A 7-Eleven store in Philadelphia's Manayunk section was robbed early Tuesday morning.
This is the latest store to be robbed in the last two week.
Federal and local authorities are looking for the suspects responsible for at least five armed robberies in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/7-eleven-robbery-philadelphia-crime-upper-southampton-township-armed-robberies/13581175/
,1,Federal and local authorities are looking for the suspects responsible for at least five armed robberies in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
All of the crimes targeted 7-Eleven stores across three counties in the last 10 days.
Upper Southampton Township police released video of a masked man and accomplice who targeted a 7-Eleven convenience store right across the street from their police station.
It happened on Street Road just before 1 a.m. Sunday.
#news
https://6abc.com/7-eleven-robbery-upper-southampton-township-bucks-montgomery-delaware-county-pa-fbi/13578867/
,1,Federal and local authorities are looking for the suspects responsible for at least five armed robberies in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
All of the crimes targeted 7-Eleven stores across three counties in the last 10 days.
Upper Southampton Township police released video of a masked man and accomplice who targeted a 7-Eleven convenience store right across the street from their police station.
It happened on Street Road just before 1 a.m. Sunday.
https://6abc.com/7-eleven-robbery-upper-southampton-township-bucks-montgomery-delaware-county-pa-fbi/13578867/ #robbery #crime #pennsylvania
,1,Bucks County police search for 2 suspects in 7-Eleven armed robbery
READ: https://6abc.com/suspect-images-bucks-county-police-armed-robbery-7-eleven/13575233/
,1,The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power fizzled out relatively peacefully Saturday after the rebellious mercenary commander who ordered his troops to march on Moscow abruptly reached a deal with the Kremlin to go into exile and sounded the retreat. #russia
https://6abc.com/russia-news-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin/13421098/
,1,The international investigation into the fatal Titan submersible implosion broadened on Saturday, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police saying it's looking into whether "criminal, federal, or provincial laws may possibly have been broken."
The announcement comes amid mounting questions about the Titan's design, including the account of a submersible expert who said he warned the vessel's CEO about safety concerns after a trip years ago. #titanic #implosion
https://6abc.com/the-titanic-submarine-oceangate-implosion-sub-what-happened/13422692/
,1,Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that those on "path of treason" or armed rebellion will be "punished" after the head of the Wagner paramilitary group said his troops had taken control of military facilities in two Russian cities, plunging the country into crisis, CNN reported.
"It is a stab in the back of our country and our people," Putin said in an address to the nation, pledging a harsh response and punishment to those who plan "an armed rebellion." #putin #russia #war #news
https://6abc.com/russia-news-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin/13421098/
,1,"Titanic" director James Cameron, who has explored the ship's wreckage site himself, called the implosion of a submersible that vanished on a Titanic tour Sunday "quite surreal."
All passengers are believed to be dead after a desperate dayslong search for the Titan, a 21-foot deep-sea vessel operated by OceanGate Expeditions. Coast Guard officials said during a news conference Thursday said debris found during the search for the vessel is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. #titanic #jamescameron
https://6abc.com/titanic-james-cameron-missing-sub-implosion-titan-submersible-imploded/13415520/
,1,A Bucks County man is waiting anxiously as the search for the Missing Titanic submersible continues.
He has several friends on the vessel and says he's even taken the trip himself.
"It's this iconic moment, and you've dreamt about it, and you've read about it, and suddenly it's there, and you've achieved this dream," said Alfred (Fred) Hagen, who owns Hagen Construction in Bensalem. #titanic
https://6abc.com/missing-titanic-sub-people-oceangate-submersible-updates/13408601/
,1,The people on board included OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who, according to the company, was serving as a member of the crew.
Rush told The Associated Press in June 2021 that the Titan’s technology was “very cutting edge” and was developed with the help of NASA and aerospace manufacturers.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/titanic-submarine-who-is-on-board-submersible-hamish-harding-missing/13407013/
,1,A tanker fire underneath Interstate 95 northbound in Philadelphia has caused part of the highway to collapse.
Video from Chopper 6 showed multiple lanes of the highway were reduced to rubble.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/interstate-95-collapse-i-95-fire-philly-overpass-tanker/13368736/
,1,Las Vegas police have released bodycam and 911 audio of officers responding to a call from a family who claimed a UFO crashed in their backyard. #shorts #ufo #alien
,1,Las Vegas police have released bodycam and 911 audio of officers responding to a call from a family who claimed a UFO crashed in their backyard.
According to ABC News, a family called 911 on May 1 to report something crashed in their backyard and they saw non-human creatures in it. #alien #bodycam
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/las-vegas-aliens-ufo-alien-news/13359881/
,1,A South Jersey community is mourning the loss of a beloved school employee.
Mary Jane Mullen was injured in a traffic accident while on her way to work in Medford on May 3.
The 79-year-old woman died from her injuries on Sunday.
She graduated from Lenape High School in 1961 and then went to work as a secretary in the school's office. #newjersey
https://6abc.com/mary-jane-mullen-death-medford-crash-lenape-high-school-new-jersey/13262602/
,1,The Washington Post is reporting that former President Trump is now trying to blame former Vice President Mike Pence for the January 6th insurrection.
According to the report, Trump spoke to reporters on his plane while headed to a campaign event in Iowa.
The paper quotes Trump as saying: "Had he sent the votes back to the legislatures, they wouldn't have had a problem on January 6th.. so in many ways, you can blame him for January 6th." #capitolbuilding #riot #trump #mikepence #donaldtrump #politics
,1,Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who is still recovering from a stroke, has checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek treatment for clinical depression, his office said Thursday.
Fetterman, who has struggled with the aftereffects of a stroke he suffered last May, checked himself in Wednesday night, it said.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/senator-john-fetterman-clinical-depression-walter-reed-national-medical-center-health/12826054/
,1,A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling buildings and sending panicked residents pouring outside in a cold winter night. At least 31 were killed, and the toll was expected to rise.
Rescue workers and residents using flashlights were searching through piles of tangled metal and concrete rubble in one of the stricken cities. People on the street shouted up to others inside a partially toppled apartment building, leaning dangerously. #earthquake #turkey
https://6abc.com/earthquake-turkey-magnitude-usgs/12774824/
,1,A massive spy balloon believed to be from China was seen above Montana and is being tracked as it flies across the continental United States, with President Joe Biden for now deciding against "military options" because of the risk to civilians, U.S. officials said on Thursday. #china #spy
https://6abc.com/chinese-spy-balloon-china-surveillance/12763290/
,1,Concerned staff warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students in the hours before he shot and wounded a teacher, but the administration “was paralyzed by apathy” and didn't call police, remove the boy from class or lock down the school, the wounded teacher's lawyer said Wednesday.
Later in the day, the school board voted to fire school district superintendent George Parker III as part of a separation agreement that will pay Parker a little over $502,000 in severance — two years of his current base salary of $251,000. Parker has been sharply criticized by parents and teachers since the Jan. 6 shooting.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/virginia-shooting-teacher-shot-at-school-abigail-zwerner-richneck-elementary/12734727/
,1,A woman was arrested for allegedly posing as a student at a New Jersey high school, and students are left feeling unsettled after she was able to attend classes for almost a week before officials caught on.
Police say 29-year-old Hyejeong Shin enrolled at New Brunswick High School using a fake birth certificate and attended as a student for four days before she was arrested. #fraud #newjersey
https://6abc.com/woman-poses-as-student-nj-high-school-new-brunswick-jersey/12735665/
,1,Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced he has named former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert Hur as a special counsel in the Biden classified documents matter.
Hur, who has been appointed by former President Donald Trump as U.S. Attorney, is currently a litigation partner at a Washington, D.C. law firm. #biden https://6abc.com/joe-biden-documents-classified-news/12693108/
,1,The revelation that classified documents were kept at the Biden Penn Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank, has raised questions about how the situation involving President Joe Biden compares with the classified documents seized at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
Trump has sought to liken the classified documents at Biden's office, used as a private citizen after he left as vice president in connection with his being a honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania, to the documents taken by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in August.
#joebiden #donaldtrump #classified
,1,Prominent American journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar while covering the World Cup, sparking an outpouring of shock and grief across the sports world.
"The entire US Soccer family is heartbroken to learn that we have lost Grant Wahl," US Soccer said in a statement on its official Twitter account.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/grant-wahl-death-world-cup-qatar/12552582/
,1,Several school districts across New Jersey received threatening phone calls on Friday that were found to be hoaxes.
Such calls are also known as 'swatting' incidents, which is when someone makes a phone call to 911 or another emergency service in the hopes of bringing police officers to a particular address.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/nj-school-swatting-incidents-new-jersey-hoax-threat-hamilton-township-district-vineland-high/12328643/
,1,The doors are shuttered at Water's Edge in Bensalem, but checks for future parties to be hosted at the venue have already been cashed.
Those who were looking forward to celebrating major life milestones at the venue are now looking for their money back.
"All she wanted to do is walk down the aisle in a dress and have her dad give her away. And they took it from us," said Stephen Dixon.
Instead, Dixon and his finance Kayla Kilpatrick say they are out a $4,300 deposit for their upcoming June 3 wedding. They are also left without a venue.
#wedding https://6abc.com/waters-edge-wedding-venue-benslem-pa-closed-deposits/12131087/
,1,The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
The review comes amid mounting pressure and questions about the shifting and, at times, contradictory information about what happened in the shooting last Tuesday at Robb Elementary School and how police responded.
Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said the review would be conducted in a fair, impartial, and independent manner and that the findings would be made public.
The review is being conducted at the request of Uvalde's mayor, officials said.
#Texas #schoolshooting #DOJ #uvalde
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/uvalde-shooting-the-department-of-justice-mayor-robb-elementary/11906330/
,1,John Fetterman will win the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, ABC News projects, capping a bizarre final few days of the campaign after the lieutenant governor suffered a stroke last week.
Fetterman checked into a hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Friday as he was on his way to a campaign event. Fetterman has said his stroke was caused by atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that's potentially serious but treatable. He has been in the hospital ever since, and he underwent a successful nearly three-hour surgery on Tuesday to implant a pacemaker that includes a defibrillator.
While the hospital stay injected a level of uncertainty into the race, Fetterman had long been the frontrunner, holding a steady polling lead over US Rep. Conor Lamb and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta.
#JohnFetterman #Pennsylvania #stroke #Election
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/john-fetterman-stroke-pacemaker-surgery-pennsylvania-lt-governor/11861572/
,1,Police say an 8-year-old boy brought a gun to his West Philadelphia school on Thursday morning.
Police said the child accidentally discharged the weapon in the Achievement Charter School yard just before 9 a.m. The gun was in the child's backpack.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/achievement-charter-school-gun-on-campus-child-brings-to-west-philly-guns/11696305/
,1,A social media post showing a student with an apparent gun inside Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania prompted a lockdown and a massive police response Friday morning.
Officers and emergency personnel responded to the school around 9:30 a.m.
A teenage student was taken into custody a short time later. Officials say the weapon was a bb gun air pistol designed to look like a Glock handgun.
The teen in custody posted the photo from inside a 10th-grade classroom, investigators say.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/academy-park-high-school-lockdown-sharon-hill-pa-delaware-county/11495072/
,1,Joshua Corneilius, 17, should be enjoying his senior year of high school, but instead, he is constantly worried about the violence occurring both inside and outside of his North Philadelphia school.
In the last year, nine kids at Simon Gratz High School were shot to death -- three of them just last month, the school's principal, Leyondo Dunn, told ABC News.
"It's a war zone, like with the drugs, with the guns, with the violence, it's a real war zone. It's a real dog-eat-dog world, like it's not for anybody that's soft," Corneilius said. "If you live in Philly, you're going to naturally become hard ... like you're going to have armor, like you'll have a shield."
Since 2015, more than 10,000 people have been shot in Philadelphia, and of those, three out of four were Black males. More than 80% of homicide victims in the city over the las year were Black males, according to city data.
READ MORE: https://6abc.com/philadelphia-shooting-gun-violence-teens-shot-crime-philly/11164637/
,1,President Donald Trump was met with loud, sustained boos and chants of "Lock him up!" from fans at Nationals Park when he was shown on the in-stadium video screen after the third inning of Game 5. The boos ended only after the video screen cut to a shot of U.S. service members waving to the crowd and then showed a message thanking the military. Trump is attending the game with five wounded veterans. READ MORE: https://6abc.com/sports/nationals-park-fans-boo-president-trump-chant-lock-him-up/5652116/