Kali9/Getty Images (MIAMI BEACH, Fla.) -- Miami Beach, long the epicenter of fun in the sun for college students' spring break respite, is dealing with an increase in violence including two deadly shootings on the iconic Ocean Drive in the past week. The chaos has left city officials, including Mayor Dan Gelber, at a loss, and has forced the city to declare a state of emergency. 'I don't think any mayor could say, ‘We did everything we could do,' when you have deaths like this. I think that what we have not been able to figure out, and I think where we have failed, is how do we stop spring break from happening?' Gelber told ABC's "Nightline.

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Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Pennsylvania's Blackhawk School District has filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern alleging various causes of action including negligence in last month's train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and subsequent controlled release of toxic chemicals. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, alleges that the derailment and burning of the contents of the rail cars "caused toxic, hazardous, and dangerous chemicals to be released onto and into the ground, into the air, and into the surface and subsurface waterways and groundwater.

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Lionsgate Fans are apparently ready for John Wick to be back. The fourth chapter of the hit franchise has already broken a series record, and it only officially hit theaters on Friday. Variety reports John Wick: Chapter 4 snagged some $8.9 million in sneak preview ticket sales in this country on Thursday alone. By comparison, the last film in the series, Chapter 3: Parabellum, earned $5.9 million in its domestic sneaks, John Wick 2 earned $2.2 million and the original made $950,000 during its Thursday night screenings, according to the trade.

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Netflix/Dimitrios Kambouris Director-writer Adam McKay , who recently called the shots on Netflix's environmental disaster movie Don't Look Up , starring Oscar winners Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence , has lined up some major stars for his next big comedy. Deadline reports Oscar-nominated screenwriter McKay has netted Robert Downey Jr. , The Batman 's Robert Pattinson , Till 's Danielle Deadwyler , and Oscar winners Amy Adams and Forest Whitaker for a dark comedy centering on a serial killer.

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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a new migration deal as part of Biden's first visit to America's northern neighbor. The new agreement will allow Canada to send migrants who cross at unofficial ports of entry at America's northern border back to the U.S., a change to the Safe Third Country Agreement long-sought by Canada. The U.S. will also be able to turn back asylum seekers who travel across the border from Canada.

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Thitiphat Khuankaew / EyeEm / Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Four Florida families filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, Board of Medicine, and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, over the state ban against gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The ban prohibits puberty blockers, hormones, cross-hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery for people under the age of 18. The families behind the lawsuit have transgender youth who would be impacted by the restriction.

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d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- You added your destination on your weather app. Your out-of-office notification is on. Chargers -- check. But one thing you didn't prepare for on your trip? An unexpected medical issue, possibly brought on by a red-eye flight that worked too well or the friends you're visiting forgetting to tell you they have a new puppy -- and you're allergic! ABC News asked doctors about must-have medications and products for travel that can relieve some of the pain and stress.

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The Covenant School (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- The six victims of a fatal shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, have been identified by law enforcement officials. Three children and three staff members were killed at the Covenant School, a Christian school for students in preschool through sixth grade, on Monday morning. The Metro Nashville Police Department identified the victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Hallie Scruggs, 9; William Kinney, 9; Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.

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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Tuesday that military readiness could be impaired by the growing list of senior military nominations being blocked by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. "Not approving the recommendation for promotions actually creates a ripple effect with the force that makes us far less ready than we need to be," Austin said responding to a question from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.

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Metropolitan Nashville Police Dept. (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Security video from inside Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, captured the suspect entering the main school building unabated by blasting through two sets of glass double doors and stalking the halls before killing six people, including three children. The security footage, released by police Monday night, raises new concerns over whether schools should have fortified or metal entrance doors that could have deterred or delayed the suspect's entry.

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ABC News (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Nashville Fire Chief William Swann spoke with GMA 3 Tuesday about the first responders who sped to The Covenant School after three students and three adult staff members were shot. GMA 3: Joined now by director Swann from the Nashville Fire Department. And your men and women were some of the first to respond to the scene. Tell me what they encountered when they got here. NASHVILLE FIRE CHIEF WILLIAM SWANN: Oh, absolutely. We responded along with the Metro Police Department.

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Metropolitan Nashville Police (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- After authorities said the Nashville school shooter identified as transgender, anti-trans sentiment about the community surged from far-right political figures. Gun reform advocates and LGBTQ activists say the transgender community is being used as a 'scapegoat' and that focusing on the shooter's reported trans identity is a distraction from what they say is the root of the issue: guns. "Despite what the gun industry and their political allies want, attempting to find a scapegoat isn't going to take away from the fact that what is causing gun violence in America is our easy access to firearms,' said Kris Brown, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called for prayers in the wake of Monday's deadly mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school, while noting that "there will be a time to talk about the legislation." "I am calling on the people of Tennessee to pray. For the families of victims, for the Covenant family, for those courageous officers, for the family of the shooter, for those who are hurting and angry and confused," Lee, a Republican, said in a video address on Tuesday evening.

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Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- When JPMorgan Chase announced two years ago that it would purchase Frank, a startup college financial planning company for students, the global banking giant said that by acquiring the apparently popular platform for $175 million it hoped to strengthen its relationship with millions of young people. But JPMorgan and federal authorities now believe there was a big problem: Many of the millions of students said to be using Frank never existed.

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Glow Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Leaked classified documents about the U.S. effort to assist Ukraine's military were posted on the internet much sooner than this week according to an ABC News review of internet posts that indicates the documents, as well as additional documents, were posted on the internet in early March shortly after they were produced. The earlier timeline for the posting of the top secret documents on the internet so soon after being issued only deepens concerns about the operational security risks raised by the leak.

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Seth Herald/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Nashville's Metro Council unanimously voted to reinstate Justin Jones, the Tennessee House representative who was ousted last week for taking part in a gun control rally. Jones will serve as an interim legislator until a special election is called. "This is about people power. It shows that people power is the ultimate power, not the decision of [House Speaker] Cameron Sexton, but the decision of the people," Jones said after the hearing on Monday.

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Nick Argo/©Academy Museum Foundation Call it the Amazon Technicolor Dreamcoat:  Deadline  reports  Jon M. Chu , veteran of  Crazy Rich Asians  and the musical  In The Heights , has inked a deal with Amazon Studios to bring  Tim Rice  and  Andrew Lloyd Webber 's musical  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  to theaters.  Chu is currently in London, calling the shots on the big-screen bow of another Broadway smash,  Wicked , which will star Grammy winners  Ariana Grande  and  Cynthia Erivo , as well as newly minted Oscar winner and his former  Crazy Rich Asians  co-star  Michelle Yeoh .

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Ramsey County Sheriff's Office (NEW YORK) -- A Minnesota judge sentenced a man to life in prison without parole Thursday for the death of his first wife, 13 years after police said he shot her over their financial troubles and lied to investigators that it happened during a home invasion. Several of Heidi Firkus' friends and family gave emotional victim statements before the judge sentenced her husband Nick Firkus, 40, for his crimes. For years, Nick Firkus maintained he was innocent and that a mysterious home intruder was involved in her death.

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Al Drago/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump's one-time director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, appeared before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Ratcliff is the latest former top Trump adviser to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., following a judge's ruling last month that a number of top aides must appear. Former top aide Stephen Miller was at the court earlier this week, and former Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli was spotted there last week.

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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old junior enlisted airman with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who has been charged as being behind the leak of classified U.S. military and U.S. intelligence documents had a high-level top security clearance that raises even more questions about why he had access to such documents in his work as an IT specialist. The criminal complaint against Jack Teixeira released Friday disclosed that he possessed a high-level top secret clearance known as TS-SCI, Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information, since 2021.

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Posted today at 4:52pm Maymah (NEW YORK) -- Maymah, a weightlifter and social media influencer who just goes by her first name, was part of Gymshark's sports hijab launch in London. When asked about what it's like working out or weightlifting with a regular hijab, she says, 'If I was doing something like running or skipping when there's a lot of head movement, it could be quite annoying and it distracts you from your actual workout.' So when her manager told her about Gymshark's sports hijab, she immediately agreed to join their campaign.

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Pool/ABC News (WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday made his first public comments on the leak of what appear to be top secret intelligence documents from the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies Austin, appearing at a news conference alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo, said he was first briefed on the apparent leaks on April 6. Since then, Austin said, he's met with senior department leaders daily and referred the matter to the Justice Department, which has opened a criminal investigation.

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Karl Urban as Billy Butcher -- Amazon Studios In an Instagram video of the final moments on set, executive producer Eric Kripke thanked the cast and crew of The Boys for wrapping the fourth season. In an f-bomb-loaded send-off, Kripke thanked his stars and the Amazon show's crew, calling working on the show "one of the great honors of my life." Shown embracing in the video were a bloodied Jack Quaid (Hughie), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko) and Erin Moriarty (Starlight/Annie), and a relatively clean Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Laz Alonso (Mother's Milk) and a fist-pumping Tomer Capone (Frenchie).

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ABC News (BUCKS COUNTY, Penn.) -- Rescuers will assess Friday morning whether or not they can continue the search for a 2-year-old girl and her 9-month-old brother who were washed away with their mother in a flash flood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after severe weather on Wednesday halted efforts to find the children, officials said. Search operations included K-9s from the Philadelphia Police Department and heavy equipment, the Upper Makefield Township Police Department wrote on Facebook, adding: "We will assess in the morning as to whether we can continue our search to bring Mattie and Conrad home.

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Delaware County District Attorney's Office (MARIETTA, Ga.) -- An 83-year-old former reverend has been arrested for allegedly killing an 8-year-old girl in 1975 while she was on her way to his Bible camp, authorities said. On Aug. 15, 1975, Gretchen Harrington was walking alone to her last day of camp in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, when the suspect, David Zandstra, allegedly drove up to her in his green station wagon, prosecutors said. Zandstra was a reverend at the camp and a friend of the Harrington family, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said at a Monday news conference.

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DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images (MIDDLETOWN, Conn.) -- New England liberal arts college Wesleyan University has ended legacy admissions in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down race-based affirmative action. In a statement released Wednesday, University President Michael S. Roth addressed the importance of formally ending admission preference for 'legacy applicants.' "We still value the ongoing relationships that come from multi-generational Wesleyan attendance, but there will be no ‘bump' in the selection process," Roth's statement read.

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Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has decided to send U.S. stocks of cluster munitions to Ukraine amid its fight against Russia, defending the controversial move as urgently needed. The weapons are part of a new military aid package worth up to $800 million. The additional assistance comes as Ukraine pushes to recapture territory seized by Russia. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News the counteroffensive was "going to plan" but he'd like to see progress happen even faster.

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STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (BIG PINE, Calif.) -- A summer avalanche took the life of a hiker and injured two others in California, investigators said. The unidentified hiking party encountered a wet slide avalanche while descending Split Mountain on July 2 around 4:30 p.m., the Inyo County Sheriff's Office announced Friday. The hikers had reached the summit of the mountain, located above Red Lake, near Big Pine, California, earlier in the day, according to investigators. None of the hikers were buried in the avalanche; however, it was strong enough to sweep the party onto rocky terrain, the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center said in a statement.

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Yuriy Boyko/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) -- Russia could stage an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to halt Ukrainian advances on the battlefield, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in a wide-ranging new interview with ABC News that was previewed on "World News with David Muir" on Thursday. Speaking to ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, Zelenskyy addressed fears that the power plant, which is the largest on the continent, could be sabotaged -- with Ukrainian officials sounding the alarm that Russia has allegedly mined the facility in preparation for a false-flag operation to sabotage the plant and blame Ukraine.

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KGO-TV (SAN FRANCISCO) -- A Ruby Princess cruise ship startled sleeping San Fransico residents Thursday morning after it hit a pier while docking, damaging it and the vessel, officials said. None of the 3,328 guests and 1,159 crew members on board were injured during the incident, according to Princess Cruises. The ship was returning from a 10-day cruise to Alaska that left last week, according to the cruise line. The Coast Guard is investigating the incident, according to police. A spokesperson for the San Francisco Bar Pilots group told ABC News in a statement that it is cooperating with the investigation.

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