Month: July 2018

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — A woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in southern England has died, police announced Sunday. Dawn Sturgess, 44, succumbed to her injuries in a hospital in Salisbury, according [Read More…]

ABC News(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — To get an idea of what rescuers are facing during the attempted extraction of a dozen Thai soccer team members and their coach, ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman crawled, slid, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Trump administration has a list of between six and nine senior Myanmar officials to sanction over the Rohingya crisis, but the effort has stalled amid internal debates over sanctions’ effectiveness and [Read More…]

Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Decreasing water levels and relatively dry weather over the past few days have created more favorable conditions for evacuating the boys’ soccer team trapped inside a partly-flooded cave in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait this weekend, the body of water separating China and Taiwan. The transit of American warships through the Strait are always sensitive because of [Read More…]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — A police officer in southern England is being tested for possible exposure to Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent that’s believed to have sickened a couple in the area last weekend. The [Read More…]

Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Decreasing water levels and relatively dry weather over the past few days have created more favorable conditions for evacuating the boys’ soccer team trapped inside a partly-flooded cave in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait this weekend, the body of water separating China and Taiwan. The transit of American warships through the Strait are always sensitive because of [Read More…]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — A police officer in southern England is being tested for possible exposure to Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent that’s believed to have sickened a couple in the area last weekend. The [Read More…]

ABC News(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Confidence soared that all 12 boys and their soccer coach will be successfully rescued from a flooded jungle cave in Thailand by the end of Monday after divers safely emerged [Read More…]

ABC News(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Four of the 12 boys trapped with their soccer coach in a cave in Thailand for 16 days were successfully extracted by divers in an hourslong subterranean rescue mission that [Read More…]

Steven and Michele Burt(WORCESTER, Mass.) — Plane passengers rarely describe air travel as a breath of fresh air, but it was literally that for one family’s bulldog on a recent JetBlue flight. The French bulldog, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Temperatures will linger at or near triple digits across much of the bone-dry West for a few more days before much-needed rain arrives. Red flag warnings are in effect across southern Oregon, [Read More…]

ABC News(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Rescuers in Thailand have retrieved the first of the 12 boys who have been trapped with their soccer coach in a cave for two weeks. Two of the boys were [Read More…]

Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — Decreasing water levels and relatively dry weather over the past few days have created more favorable conditions for evacuating the boys’ soccer team trapped inside a partly-flooded cave in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait this weekend, the body of water separating China and Taiwan. The transit of American warships through the Strait are always sensitive because of [Read More…]