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Navy Capt. Brad Geary called the death of SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen in 2022 a "tragedy" but defended himself and the training program. The Navy command er in charge of the "Hell Week" training when a SEAL candidate died spoke out on ABC's "Good Morning America" after an investigation found multiple problems with the program. Capt. Brad Geary told ABC News' Stephanie Ramos that the death of Kyle Mullen in 2022 was a "tragedy" but defended himself and the program against the probe, which outlined ways the selection progress for SEAL candidates had become dangerous. "That entire report mischaracterizes, misrepresents and misquotes our organization and Naval special warfare," Geary said. "Because it was built off of a bias that was inappropriate and regurgitated untruths that simply didn't exist." Brady Geary, the Navy SEAL captain in charge of "Hell Week" training when Kyle Mullen died in 2022, appears on...

Trump and DeSantis traded memes while Tim Scott made an unusual warning about Chinese students in the U.S. and Biden seized on an anti-abortion ruling in Georgia Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis traded memes and criticisms while, elsewhere on the trail, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott made an unusual warning about Chinese students in the U.S., President Joe Biden slammed a decision to restrict abortion in a key swing state -- and a suspected Democratic primary candidate may have just sent out his first bus of the cycle. Here are Tuesday's campaign takeaways. The 'kiss of death' for DeSantis? No way, he says Former President Trump and his campaign spent the day seizing on the 60-day deadline of what he has called the "kiss of death " timeline for GOP primary rival DeSantis. That refers to a deadline set by a DeSantis-aligned super PAC strategist telling donors ahead of the first primary debate that the Florida governor had 60 days to catch up to Trump, who remains th...

Mothers of children under 5 told ABC News that the loss of WIC nutrition assistance during a potential shutdown would be devastating for their families. Florencia Cariddi, a mother of a 10-month-old living in New York City, is one of nearly 7 million low-income women in the U.S. receiving assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- commonly known as WIC. "I think that if I didn't have the program, it would be really, really hard for me," Cariddi, who lives paycheck to paycheck, told ABC News as she visited the WIC Nutrition Center at Ryan Health in New York City. WIC is a discretionary grant program that is funded by Congress annually and, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to avert a government shutdown this weekend, millions of pregnant and postpartum mothers and their children could lose access to necessities like formula, milk and other food products. Millions of women, ch...

Trump and others have been sued by the partner of late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after defending the Capitol in the Jan. 6 insurrection The partner of one of the Capitol Police officer s who died after being attacked in the Jan. 6 insurrection has filed a wrongful death suit against Donald Trump, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by ABC News The suit, filed in federal court on Thursday by Sandra Garza, the partner of Officer Brian Sicknick, comes nearly two years since the attack -- and accuses Trump of being responsible for Sicknick's death. Along with Trump, the suit also names two men as defendants, Julian Khater and George Tanios, who were charged with assaulting Sicknick with chemical spray. Khater has since pleaded guilty to assaulting police with a dangerous weapon; Tanios pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly or disruptive conduct in that building. Prosecutors said Tanios was the one who bought t...

More discrepancies are coming to the forefront, adding to the already long list of lies New York Rep.-Elect Geroge Santos has said about his life. More discrepancies are emerging about New York Rep.-elect George Santos' background, adding to a growing list of fabrications and exaggerations that the incoming congressman has told about his life -- some of which have drawn the attention of prosecutors. In addition to having falsely said he attended Baruch College, which he has since admitted, another part of his Education has now been challenged. On an archived version of his 2020 congressional website, Santos said he went to the elite private school Horace Mann in New York City but did not graduate due to financial difficulties for his family. He said he went on to obtain his GED. But a spokesperson for the school on Thursday confirmed to ABC News -- and other outlets -- that he never attended Horace Mann. An attorney for Santos, Joseph Murray, initially pushed back on scrutiny of h...