Month: November 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(MALIBU, Calif.) — Thousands of firefighters are fighting deadly blazes tearing through the Golden State. Over a dozen states have sent crews to help with the Camp Fire in Northern California and the Woolsey Fire [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — When Norma Weldon, a blind, 90-year-old woman, refused to evacuate her home as the deadly Camp Fire neared, her son, Brad Weldon, stayed behind to fight off the blaze. Miraculously, their Paradise, [Read More…]

Amazon.com(NEW YORK) — Amazon on Tuesday said it chose New York City and a suburb of Washington, D.C., as the locations for its new headquarters. The Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, just across the [Read More…]

Blackpool Police(LONDON) — The “Ross Gellar look-alike” wanted by a regional English police force has been found after a weeks-long search. “Do you recognize this man?” Blackpool Police asked in a Twitter post, appealing to [Read More…]

Dave Simpson/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Celine Dion is working on something so good it might be … illegal? The singer on Tuesday teased a “grand unveiling” of her latest endeavor by posting a clip of herself [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — His nickname may be shorty but the list of crimes attributed to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — including drug trafficking, murder and torture — is lengthy and spelled out in a 17-count [Read More…]

Getty Images(ISTANBUL) — A Saudi Arabian intelligence official was “shocked” after listening to an audio recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder during a recent visit to Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. [Read More…]

Amazon.com(NEW YORK) — Amazon is expected to announce later Tuesday where its new headquarters will be built, sources close to the matter told ABC News. The Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, just across the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — If Samsung engineers get this right, you may never have to dive into your couch cushions for a lost TV remote again — because you won’t need one. The Sun reports the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — As firefighters continue battling blazes in California that have claimed at least 44 lives, conditions in Southern California have worsened. In San Diego County, the fire risk on Tuesday is extremely [Read More…]

ABC News(BALTIMORE) — Protests are slated to take place in Baltimore this week as church leaders gather at the annual General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to discuss the ongoing sexual abuse [Read More…]

ULISES RUIZ/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Approximately 100 of an estimated 11,000 migrants, less than 1 percent of those U.S. officials are tracking across four groups, may reach the U.S. border south of San Diego on [Read More…]

Quinn Owen/ABC News(BASE CAMP DONNA, Texas) — On an unusually frigid morning, Army Warrant Officer Silvestre Arroyo was supervising his team on Veterans Day weekend as they prepared a hot breakfast of sausage and grits. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — When the deadly Camp Fire started to close in on Feather River Hospital in the Northern California town of Paradise, nurses were forced to evacuate their critically sick patients without warning. “We [Read More…]

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) — A prolonged drought followed by a welcomed spike in rain and another dry spell has created a “recipe for destruction” that’s manifesting itself in wildfires of historic proportions raging in California, [Read More…]