President Donald Trump's remark to Terry Moran in an ABC News interview — that it was his choice to whom he would grant an interview — exposes a delicate question for journalists.

One of the wounded survivors of Thursday’s mass shooting at Florida State University spoke to ABC News Friday.

Ari Shulman said he often watches planes line up to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport during his drive home to Alexandria along the George Washington Parkway.

Federal raids and deportations are ramping up across the country, including in South Florida.

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan told ABC News the U.S. military will be flying deportees out of the country daily.

President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, said the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey during a freewheeling press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E.

Severe turbulence forced a transatlantic flight bound for Miami to return to Europe on Thursday.

A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince came under gunfire while trying to land in the Haitian capital, the Haiti National Office of Civil Aviation told ABC News.

In election night planning, news outlets are being mindful that they have to keep watch on what doesn't happen along with what does.

Representatives for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ transition teams met for the first time at the White House, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, as the outgoing administration plans to smooth the handoff to whomever wins in November.

Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement Sunday after a shooting near former President Donald Trump in Palm Beach County.

People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a federal judge’s ruling allowing the bets — the only ones to be legally approved by a U.S. jurisdiction.

“60 Minutes” has scheduled its quadrennial interview special with presidential candidates, and it won't be on a Sunday night.

An estimated 67.1 million people watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

They faced the challenge of moderating what is probably the only general election debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Everyone knows how much is at stake for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during Tuesday's presidential debate, the only one they have scheduled during their compressed campaign.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to meet next week for the first time in person at their only scheduled debate this election season.

Next month’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump won’t have an audience, live microphones or written notes.

California Rep. Adam Schiff has become the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, as the party pushes ahead with plans to hold a virtual vote to formally make Biden its nominee in the first week of August.

Singapore Airlines says one of its flights hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet in about three minutes.

Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division.

WNBA star Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest on drug-related charges.

Bahamian authorities were investigating two deaths after an explosion in a Holland America Line cruise ship.

Melanie Adaros said she was out for a walk with her mother when she heard a loud noise and saw a plane shooting out sparks and flying low on Thursday night. She was near the Miami Executive Airport and the plane was heading back to Miami International Airport.

Two television networks have said they will hold separate Republican presidential debates at the same location in New Hampshire just ahead of that state’s GOP primary next month, but officials at Saint Anselm College said they were only aware of one of the events.

Miami will play host to the third Republican Party presidential primary debate, the party’s national committee confirmed to ABC News Thursday evening.

A former investigative journalist for ABC News has pleaded guilty to federal child sexual abuse material charges.

The Walt Disney Company has no basis for suing Florida’s governor in federal court over actions taken to reform the special district that governed Disney property, according to a new motion filed in the lawsuit between Florida Governor and Ron DeSantis, according to ABC News and Local 10 News partnerWKMG.

The federal judge handling the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has set a tentative date and location for his trial.

A South Carolina groom whose bride was killed on their wedding day by an alleged drunk driver shared his story for the first time.

Coverage of mass shootings have seemingly taken on a numbing sameness.

Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was among the 17 victims of the Parkland school shooting, was arrested for protesting during a hearing Thursday in Washington, D.C.

A few supporters of former President Donald Trump met outside Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to show their support amid fears of an indictment

Federal authorities say a well-known former investigative journalist for ABC News has been arrested on a charge of “transporting” images depicting the sexual abuse of children.

Television news icon Barbara Walters has died, according to ABC News.

Democracy issues were once an afterthought in election night coverage, with an occasional report on broken voting machines in a polling place or two.

State officials said the vaccine rule was against the law, and it disqualified Special Olympics athletes from competing based on their vaccine status, ABC News reports.

A United Airlines wheel chair attendant at Newark Airport lost his job, after he was caught on camera involved in a violent brawl with former NFL player Brendan Langley.

A Colombian drug lord who is believed to control the “largest and most powerful cocaine trafficking and paramilitary organization in Colombia” was extradited to the U.S. Thursday, federal prosecutors told ABC News.

The Miami Heat’s Friday night game against the Hawks was delayed for about 30 minutes after a man abandoned a backpack in a busy area outside of the arena.

A retired Florida police Captain acquitted of murder in a fatal movie theater shooting speaks exclusively with ABC News following his acquittal.

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and the Holocaust.

ABC News is under fire for how it edited an interview that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky gave to “Good Morning America.”.

ABC News has released a clip in which Alec Baldwin tells George Stephanopoulos that he did not pull the trigger on a gun that went off on a New Mexico film set, killing a cinematographer.

ABC News’ Special Report “9/11 Twenty Years Later: America Remembers” airs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Two Broward County teachers and an educational assistant died within 36 hours this week after contracting COVID-19, according to the teachers’ union.

It’s a good bet that just about all of us have thrown something away on accident.

Florida has again broken a record for new COVID-19 cases, reporting 56,633 of them over the past two days, according to the latest CDC data, an average of more than 28,000 per day.

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging airport police to arrest more people who are unruly or violent on flights — and is asking airport bars and restaurants to stop serving alcoholic drinks to-go.

Pfizer and its partner BioNtech announced Friday that they are starting the process to seek full Food and Drug Administration approval in the U.S. for their COVID-19 vaccine after delivering more than 170 million doses in the country, ABC News reported.

This combination photo shows, from left, Carmelo Anthony, Nick Cannon, David Alan Grier, John Ridley and Danny Glover who will be featured on "Soul of a Nation," an ABC newsmagazine focused on Black life in America. (AP Photo)NEW YORK – ABC News says that next month it will begin airing “Soul of a Nation,” which the network believes is the first prime-time broadcast newsmagazine focused on Black life in America. The network has committed to six episodes that will air on consecutive Tuesday nights. It illustrates the opportunity to both speak to a Black audience and educate others about what is going on in the community. ___This story has been corrected to show that the name of the series creator is Marie Nelson, not Marie Roberts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Law enforcement officials said there is concern that QAnon followers could be plotting acts of violence in the coming days. According to a bulletin obtained by ABC News, the new misplaced QAnon belief predicts that Trump will be returned to power on Jan. 31. So, again, it really shouldn’t have to be speaker Pelosi who calls this out. The White House is not weighing in on the subject. Jen Psaki, White House press secretary said Friday: “We’ll leave decisions about committees to members of Congress and we’ve certainly seen Speaker Pelosi speak to that.”

FILE - ABC News President James Goldston attends the International Women's Media Foundation's 26th Annual Courage in Journalism Awards in New York on Oct. 21, 2015. Goldston said Thursday that he will leave the network at the end of March, after seven years leading the news division. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK – ABC News President James Goldston said Thursday that he will leave the network at the end of March, after seven years of leading the news division. The low-profile Goldston leaves at a time ABC's flagship newscasts, “World News Tonight” and “Good Morning America," are both leading its rivals in the ratings. Peter Rice, chairman of general entertainment content for ABC parent Walt Disney Co., praised Goldston for his work, particularly during the pandemic and 2020's political upheaval.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The latest White House coronavirus task force report advises states to urge residents to assume they became infected if they attended a Thanksgiving gathering outside their home. The weekly report, obtained by ABC News, also singles out Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties for representing 39.2% of new cases in Florida over the past three weeks. “The COVID risk to all Americans is at a historic high,” the report says. “If you are under 40, you need to assume you became infected during the Thanksgiving period if you gathered beyond your immediate household. States are in the process of finalizing their plans for how to distribute coronavirus vaccines when the shots receive federal approval.

FBI agents and detectives from several law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin are searching for a gunman who left eight people injured during a shooting on Friday at a mall in Milwaukee County. According to Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber, the shooting was about 2:50 p.m. at the Macy’s store in Mayfair Mall. The victims included seven adults and one teenager. LIVE UPDATES (ABC News affiliate):

A man stops to watch election returns on electronic billboards in Times Square, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. Cable and broadcast news divisions followed the story closely, even as they learned that election night coverage was a relative dud with viewers. An estimated 56.9 million people watched coverage over 21 networks during primetime hours Tuesday, down sharply from the 71.4 million viewers on election night 2016, the Nielsen company said. For weeks, media outlets had warned that Americans would need patience on election night and beyond, and that turned out to be their most accurate prediction. Even if Biden won the presidency, Democrats were sure to face questions about why the race was so close and why predicted gains in Congress didn't materialize.

Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)NEW YORK – Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams so they're prepared to explain legal challenges or irregularities that may come up during the vote. ABC and NBC have made similar arrangements, although some of those experts will have more offscreen roles. “I think everyone recognizes that.”NBC News has hired a firm that specializes in election law for advice and to provide lawyers who can appear on the air if they need to, said division president Noah Oppenheim. Marc Burstein, the network's top elections producer, said ABC believes it's best for viewers to see faces they're familiar with.

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)NEW YORK – It's not the tally that really matters, but Joe Biden scored something of an upset over President Donald Trump. In their dueling town halls, the Democratic presidential candidate reached more viewers on ABC than Trump did for NBC News Thursday night. The Biden town hall reached 14.1 million people on ABC between 8 and 9 p.m. and Trump had 13.5 million combined on NBC, CNBC and MSNBC, the Nielsen company said. “Well, that just happened,” MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said as soon as Trump's town hall with Savannah Guthrie ended, proceeding to launch into a lengthy fact-check. The Biden town hall, with questions from the audience and moderator George Stephanopoulos, lasted 90 minutes.

Joe Biden is opening an ABC News town hall by criticizing President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He said Thursday that it’s “a president’s responsibility to lead” and that Trump “didn’t do that.” Biden said Trump focused too exclusively on the stock market while downplaying how the virus spread and threatened both Americans' health and the economy on the ground. Biden also criticized Trump for not more actively engaging with Congress to pass another economic relief package for individuals and businesses. Biden on DOJ under Biden administration: “What the Biden Justice Department will do is let the Department of Justice be the Department of Justice. At the end of his five-minute answer, he offered to provide “a lot more” information to the young Black man who asked the question.

President Donald Trump speaks during an NBC News Town Hall with moderator Savannah Guthrie, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, participated in an ABC town hall from Philadelphia at the same time. __9:50 p.m.Democrat Joe Biden says President Donald Trump has not been “chastened” by the claims of racial injustice that have marked his presidency. ___9:20 p.m.President Donald Trump tried to end his contentious town hall meeting on a positive note. ___9:15 p.m.President Donald Trump demurred when asked whether he supports overturning Roe v. Wade.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump who was replaced by the President less than four months before the 2020 election, was armed with a gun and threatening to harm himself at his Fort Lauderdale home on Sunday afternoon, according to police and campaign officials. She told police that her husband was armed, had access to multiple firearms inside the house and was threatening to kill himself. Records confirm that the property in the 2300 block of Desota Drive in Fort Lauderdale is owned by Parscale, 44, and his wife. A statement from President Trump’s Campaign Communications Director, Tim Murtaugh, states: “Brad Parscale is a member of our family and we all love him. Parscale was originally hired to run Trump’s 2016 campaign by Jared Kushner, the president’s powerful son-in-law.

When the coronavirus shutdown began, Raddatz figured her plan for a cross-country road trip to meet voters would be shelved, too. The pandemic that instantly changed the 2020 presidential campaign forced news organizations to reevaluate coverage plans, too. For months, news executives wondered if they would be covering a campaign without campaigning, although it has grown more public after Labor Day. The journalists have spotted stories that may not be strictly political but give insight into what communities are thinking about. While some may denigrate day-to-day event coverage, it does give journalists the ability to evaluate candidates in different situations, along with ask questions.

NEW YORK A few times each week, reporters sit in the White House briefing room to fire questions at the Trump administration's press secretary as she stands at a podium to respond. McEnany, President Donald Trump's fourth press secretary, restored the briefing after it was dormant for more than a year. With a boss who routinely attacks the press, McEnany has no problems doing the same. This needs to be an aberration.Politics in the White House? Symbolically, a White House press secretary's office is midway between the Oval Office and press room, illustrating how the person is responsible to both occupants.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. The Intensive Care Unit at Homestead Hospital is at capacity with mostly patients who has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokeswoman for Baptist Health South Florida confirmed to ABC News reporter Victor Oquendo. Pipkin confirmed that the hospital is seeing much younger COVID-19 patients than earlier in the pandemic. On Tuesday, the number of admitted COVID-19 patients reported in Miami-Dade County reached 818. [Now] were seeing that we have to admit a lot more of them.Despite the surge, all South Florida hospitals have not yet reached capacity. According to state data, Miami-Dade has 23.9% of its hospital beds and 26.6% of its ICU beds available as of Tuesday afternoon.

(CNN) - Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, winner of three Emmys and a legend and trailblazer in broadcasting, has died at the age of 75, ABC News announced. Robert worked in television, public radio and publishing for over 40 years. She began her tenure at ABC as a contributor for "This Week with David Brinkley" and later became ABC's chief congressional analyst. Roberts is survived by her husband Steve V. Roberts and her children Lee Roberts and Rebecca Roberts, her grandchildren Regan, Hale and Cecilia Roberts and Claiborne, Jack and Roland Hartman, along with nieces, nephews, and cousins. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

Obama himself emerged as a hot point as the discussion shifted to health care and immigration in particular. Sanders said Biden, Obama's two-term vice president, bears responsibility for millions of Americans going bankrupt under the "Obamacare" health care system. Biden slapped back at both Sanders and Warren and contended they haven't yet explained how they would pay for Sanders' government-backed "Medicare for All" health care plan. The 44-year-old Texan appeared to touch on concerns about Biden's age when he accused the former vice president of forgetting a detail about his own health care plan. The leading Democratic candidates may not have another chance to face off for quite some time.

ABACO ISLANDS, Bahamas - An ABC News producer jumped into floodwaters Sunday to help get a group of people to safety, as Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas' Abaco Islands. The ABC News team was in a resort when they heard shouts for help. A producer decided to use a rope and risk his life to help them get to safety. "Our producer ... was separated from them by this rushing, this torrent of water," ABC News correspondent Marcus Moore said Monday during Good Morning America. At least five people died in Abaco Islands during the Category 5 storm.

ABACO ISLANDS, Bahamas - An ABC News producer jumped into floodwaters Sunday to help get a group of people to safety, as Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas' Abaco Islands. The ABC News team was in a resort when they heard shouts for help. A producer decided to use a rope and risk his life to help them get to safety. "Our producer ... was separated from them by this rushing, this torrent of water," ABC News correspondent Marcus Moore said Monday during Good Morning America. At least five people died in Abaco Islands during the Category 5 storm.

CNN image(CNN) - Tom Bergeron isn't the only person who's unhappy about the casting of Sean Spicer on "Dancing With the Stars." Some staffers at ABC News are "up in arms," as one source put it, over the decision by ABC's entertainment division. The network is casting the former White House press secretary, best known for his obfuscation on behalf of President Trump, for what's supposed to be a delightful dance-off. But for "GMA" to lean into it -- by setting up a faux White House podium for his intro on Wednesday -- is problematic. Responding to Bergeron's statement, Spicer told CNN Business, "I think Tom has been a great host.

MIAMI - An Australian man fell overboard Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas ship early Wednesday morning while the cruise was en route to St. Thomas, Royal Caribbean spokesman Owen Torres confirmed to ABC News. According to Torres, the ship immediately turned and launched a rescue boat when the man fell overboard. Josh Mackey, a passenger onboard the ship, said he noticed search lights in the water between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. According to Mackey, he could see another cruise ship nearby and wasn't sure whether the victim had fallen from his ship or the other. It's unclear how the man fell overboard.

Associated PressHamza bin Laden, son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is believed to be dead, according to two U.S. officials. Its unclear when and where Hamza bin Laden died, but a U.S. military source told ABC News the U.S. government believes he was killed within the last two years. U.S. intelligence played a role in the operation that killed the younger bin Laden, the source said, declining to elaborate. A senior U.S. official confirmed that Hamza bin Laden is thought to be dead. Earlier today President Trump declined to comment on an NBC News report that the U.S. had information about bin Ladens death.

NEW YORK - From the outside looking in Ginger Zee has it all. Underneath it all, Zee struggles with depression, so crippling at times that ten days before she started at ABC she checked herself into a mental hospital. I had worked my whole life to get this opportunity and it saved my life because I knew I had to do something right now, said Zee. Zee spoke on the set of GMA about her struggle with mental illness and her constant treatment. After hearing about the loss of my co-anchor Todd Tongen to suicide, Ginger tried to help me understand how mental illness makes people who seem so bright on the outside are so dark within.