Month: October 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has arrived in Moscow, where he is expected to tell Russian officials that America plans to withdraw from a historic nuclear arms treaty that dates to the [Read More…]

ABC News (HOUSTON) — Hurricane Willa strengthened to a powerful Category 5 storm Monday morning, taking aim at the Mexican coast and threatening to deliver life-threatening storm surge, wind and rain. Now packing 160 mph [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) — A teenager wanted in the fatal shooting of a Georgia police officer was killed by police Monday morning after they found him hiding in a shed of a home in suburban Atlanta, officials [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — As the Mega Millions jackpot heads toward a record $1.6 billion drawing Tuesday, some ticket-holding hopefuls may wonder if they would be able hide their identities if they won. The lottery prize [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BEIJING) —  Two U.S. Navy warships sailed through the international waters of the Taiwan Strait on Monday, the body of water separating China and Taiwan, the island nation that China considers a breakaway province. The [Read More…]

Rob Kim/Getty Images(LONDON) — A new Bob Dylan exhibit has opened in London and features handwritten copies of some of his most famous songs. Included in the Mondo Scripto exhibit, which opened in Halcyon Gallery [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A 70-year-old woman was found with her throat slashed at her home on a quiet residential street in Manhattan. Police responded to a 911 call at an Upper West Side apartment just [Read More…]

Barron County Sheriff’s Office(BARRON, Wisconsin) — One week after 13-year-old Jayme Closs was abducted from her rural Wisconsin home, community members are set to come together at a “Gathering of Hope” event Monday night to [Read More…]

ABC News(HOUSTON) — The hurricane season in the eastern Pacific Ocean officially is the most active since 1971. Hurricane Willa, now a Category 4 with winds reaching 155 mph this morning, is nearly a Category [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — New York City Police Department Commissioner James P. O’Neill suspended the use of some bodycam devices “effective immediately” after one of the city’s cameras exploded over the weekend. The NYPD said it [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JOSE, Costa Rica) — Five people, including four Americans, died in a rafting accident in Costa Rica, authorities said. The bodies of Ernesto Sierra, Jorge Caso, Sergio Lorenzo and Andres Denis were found Saturday [Read More…]

Twitter/@MattGutmanABC(TAPACHULA, Mexico) — A caravan of thousands of footsore Central American migrants who say they are seeking refuge from violence in their countries was moving north Sunday under the close watch of an army of [Read More…]

Gwinnett County Police(ATLANTA) — A manhunt was underway Sunday for a suspect in the killing of a police officer near a suburban Atlanta school after he and his partner responded to a report of a [Read More…]

Bob Pereira(HOUSTON) — A family reunion decades in the making unfolded last week at the international arrivals terminal at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Three siblings — who lived separate lives after the eldest [Read More…]

Omar Shagaleh/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(ISTANBUL, Turkey) — A Saudi official has told ABC News that Jamal Khashoggi was killed when he was “placed in a chokehold position” to prevent him from leaving the country’s consulate in [Read More…]

(KANDAHAR, Afghanistan) — Army Brigadier General Jeffrey D. Smiley was the wounded U.S. service member shot in Thursday’s insider attack in Kandahar that killed two top Afghan officials in the province. The top U.S. military [Read More…]