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Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is about to put his fate before a small-town jury As his life unraveled over the past two years, disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh didn't fight giving up his law license and said he made plenty of mistakes tied to missing client money and a financial mess that led to 100 criminal charges. But he has adamantly insisted, from the moment he found the bodies of his wife and youngest son both shot multiple times at the family's estate in June 2021, that he was not the killer. Beginning Monday, it will be up to 12 jurors to decide if they agree. Lawyers expect jury selection to last several days before testimony begins. It took state agents 13 months of investigation to charge Murdaugh with two counts of murder, and a judge has set aside three weeks for the trial. Murdaugh insisted on the trial as soon as possible. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty, but said they will ask for life without parole if Murdaugh is c...

A former top FBI official in New York has been arrest ed over his ties to a Russian oligarch , law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday. A former top FBI official in New York has been arrest ed over his ties to a Russian oligarch , law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday. Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions. McGonigal retired from the FBI in 2018. He was arrested Saturday afternoon after he arrived at JFK Airport following travel in Sri Lanka, the sources said. MORE: FBI searches NYC, DC properties in probe of Russian oligarch with ties to Kremlin He was charged along with a court interpreter, Sergey Shestakov, who also worked with Deripaska. McGonigal, 54, is charged with violating U.S. sanctions by trying to get De...

The video footage of Tyre Nichols' interaction with five Memphis police officers is "appalling," Ben Crump, attorney for the Nichols family, said. The video footage of Tyre Nichols' interaction with five Memphis police officers is "appalling," "deplorable," "heinous," "violent" and "troublesome on every level," Ben Crump, attorney for the Nichols family, said during a press conference Monday after viewing the bodycam video. Nichols' family, along with attorneys Crump and Antonio Romanucci, viewed the body-camera footage Monday morning, facilitated by the Memphis Police Department and Memphis City administration. The arrest video has not been released to the public. "What he was in that [video] was defenseless the entire time," Romanucci said. "He was a human piñata for those police officers. It was unadulterated, unabashed, nonstop beating of this young boy for three minutes." Romanucci al...

A judge in Georgia is hearing arguments regarding whether to publicly release the report by the grand jury probing efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. A Fulton County, Georgia, judge is hearing arguments Tuesday regarding whether or not to publicly release the long-anticipated report submitted recently by the special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election . The special grand jury submitted its confidential final report earlier this month, according to court records, after probing the matter for months. MORE: Fulton County grand jury submits final report on Trump's alleged interference in 2020 election Though the grand jury does not have the ability to return an indictment, it can make recommendations concerning criminal prosecution. Another grand jury would bring any possible charges, should they be recommended. The central question regarding the report : Did the grand j...

After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws. Austin, Texas -- After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting last May. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, introduced bills that, if enacted, would empower survivors of school shooting s to sue Texas state agencies, allow Texas law enforcement officials to be sued for their on-the-job conduct, create a permanent compensation fund for victims of school shooting s by imposing a tax on state gun sales, and repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a federal law that shields gun sellers and manufacturers from liability. Watchers of Texas Politics said gun reform has little chance of getting passed without support from Republic...

British actor Julian Sands, however, remains missing. A hiker who had been reported missing in the mountains of Southern California was found alive on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Jin Chung, a 75-year-old resident of Los Angeles, disappeared on Sunday while hiking on Mount Baldy, the highest peak among the San Gabriel Mountains, located outside of Los Angeles. He was the second hiker to vanish on Mount Baldy this month. British actor Julian Sands, a 65-year-old resident of Los Angeles, was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area on the evening of Jan. 13, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Search and rescue teams scoured the mountain on foot, in helicopters and via drones. On Tuesday afternoon, they located Chung, who had "suffered some weather-related injuries and a leg injury but was able to walk out with the assistance of the crew members," the sheriff's department said. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment. His...

Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death at the hands of police officers, suffered from "extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating," according to an autopsy. Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose death last month at the hands of five Memphis, Tennessee, police officers has triggered national outrage, suffered from " extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating ," according to a preliminary independent autopsy . "His observed injuries are consistent with what the family and attorneys witnessed on the video of his fatal encounter with police on January 7," the family of Tyre Nichols and their attorneys, Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, said in a statement. "Further details and findings from this independent report will be disclosed at another time." The attorneys hired their own "highly regarded, nationally renowned forensic pathologist" to complete the autopsy. The independent autopsy has not been released publicly. In this photo pr...

Ten people have died as a result of a shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, a suburb of Los Angeles. Ten people have died following a mass shooting at a dance studio in Southern California. Five men and five women were killed in the shooting, which took place near a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park Sunday night, a suburb of Los Angeles. An additional 10 people were injured in the mass shooting, police said. A "night of joyful celebration" transformed into "a horrific and heartless act of gun violence," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement in response to the shooting. "Our hearts mourn as we learn more about the devastating acts of last night," Newsom said. The motive for the shooting is unclear, including whether it is "a hate crime defined by law," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told reporters during a news conference on Sunday. MORE: Monterey Park mass shooting updates: 10 dead, possible suspect's van s...

A massive storm system that brought nearly a foot of snow to some parts of the Midwest is now threatening the Northeast with heavy snow, torrential rain and high winds. A massive storm system that brought nearly a foot of snow to some parts of the Midwest is now threatening millions of residents in the Northeast with heavy snow, torrential rain and high winds. The winter storm brought 11 inches of snow across Kansas on Saturday, which shut down some roadways in the region, including Interstate 70. MORE: Winter storm bringing snow, ice and tornadoes, expected to wallop US this week The snow was so heavy at some points that northwest Kansas saw up to 2 inches per hour. More than 13 million Americans across 18 states from Arizona to Maine are currently under winter storm alerts. On Sunday, two low system s will merge, which are expected to exacerbate heavy rainfall from the Northeast to the South along the East Coast. Screen grab of a video of a snowstorm in Hays, Kan. recorded on Jan...

Former President Trump mistook a photo of a woman who has accused him of rape for his second wife during an October deposition, a newly released transcript shows. Former President Donald Trump momentarily mistook a woman who has accused him of rape for his second wife during a legal deposition, a newly released transcript shows, raising possible questions about the viability of Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit brought by the accuser. Trump has denied knowing the accuser , former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who alleges that Trump attacked her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman luxury department store in the 1990s. Carroll claims Trump defamed her in 2019 when, during his presidency, he denied her rape claim by calling her a liar and saying "she's not my type." However, when Trump was shown a black and white photograph during an October de position by Carroll's attorney, a newly unsealed transcript shows that he mistook Carroll for...