Month: July 2018

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…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI PROVINCE, Thailand) — The coach of a boys soccer team trapped inside a cave in northern Thailand has apologized to their parents in a handwritten letter and promised to take good [Read More…]

ABC News (CHIANG RAI PROVINCE, 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…]

WPVI(NEWFIELD, N.J) — Two people have died in a house explosion in New Jersey Saturday morning, officials said. The house at 329 Oakwood Drive in Newfield exploded just before 6:30 a.m., according to the Newfield [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A U.S. military service member was killed and two others were wounded Saturday in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan. The death is the third American military fatality in Afghanistan this [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — North Korea blasted the U.S. on Saturday for making what it called “robber-like” demands in meetings between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Pyongyang officials, calling the attitude and stance of [Read More…]

WPVI-TV(NEWFIELD, N.J.) — Two people have died in a house explosion in New Jersey on Saturday morning, officials said. The house at 329 Oakwood Drive in Newfield exploded just before 6:30 a.m., according to the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl is churning in the Atlantic on Saturday morning and taking aim at the small islands that make up the eastern Caribbean. It appears, based on the current track, the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Three dozen large fires continue to burn in 11 states across the West on Saturday as dry air and hot temperatures have settled in. Gusty northern winds of up to 45 [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A newspaper serially publishing the Declaration of Independence on social media this week got an unexpected surprise: Facebook had blocked one of the posts. The Liberty County Vindicator, a newspaper in southeastern Texas, [Read More…]

ASOS(NEW YORK) — ASOS is becoming more inclusive than ever before. Earlier this week, the clothing company released a fully waterproof jumpsuit that its website noted has been adapted to be “wheelchair-friendly.” Reporter and Paralympic [Read More…]

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(BERLIN) — The starkly contrasting approaches Germany and Hungary’s leaders have taken toward refugees were on public display Thursday when they clashed during a press conference. “The viewpoint of Hungary and Germany [Read More…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — A proposed plan to rescue the boys soccer team trapped in a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand could launch as soon as this weekend, ABC News has learned. [Read More…]

Airman 1st Class Dillian Bamman/U.S. Air Force(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon says the joint U.S. military exercise with South Korea that was suspended after President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HUDSON BAY, Canada) — A Canadian man was hailed as a hero by his family after he died protecting his children from a polar bear. Aaron Gibbons, 31, was at a popular fishing and hunting [Read More…]

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(BERLIN) — The starkly contrasting approaches Germany and Hungary’s leaders have taken toward refugees were on public display Thursday when they clashed during a press conference. “The viewpoint of Hungary and Germany [Read More…]

WABC(NEW YORK) — Police are searching for information after a tire mysteriously crashed into a car on a New York highway, killing a 60-year-old man, authorities said. The victim, David Dorazio, was driving on Sunrise [Read More…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — A proposed plan to rescue the boys soccer team trapped in a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand could launch as soon as this weekend, ABC News has learned. [Read More…]