Year: 2018

naruedom/iStock/Thinkstock(KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo) — The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s volatile east is now the second largest in recorded history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases thus far, [Read More…]

cosinart/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather and music prodcer DJ Khaled were charged with failure to disclose payments received for promoting inital coin offerings (ICOs) by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The cases are the [Read More…]

Gilitukha/iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — As he navigated the flames burning through Paradise, California, on Nov. 8, Butte County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Parmlet figured that he may not survive the day. According to the sheriff’s office, Parmlet [Read More…]

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — When Les Moonves stepped down as CEO of CBS in September amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault, he was still eyeing a $120 million payout. Now he [Read More…]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — A Columbia University professor’s office was painted with swastikas and anti-Semitic words, according to school officials. The professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, told the Columbia Spectator that she was “in shock” when she walked [Read More…]

Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images(HOOVER, Ala.) — A 20-year-old man has been apprehended in connection with a Thanksgiving shooting incident that turned deadly at a shopping mall in Hoover, Alabama. The initial shooting, which injured [Read More…]

FBI Charlotte(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — The body of abducted 13-year-old Hania Aguilar was believed to be recovered this week in North Carolina but the search for answers is far from over. “We have to find out [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Department of Justice distributed an additional $695 million to investors who lost money in the largest known Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, orchestrated by Bernard Madoff, the agency announced [Read More…]

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Two U.S. Navy ships transited through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the third time this year that U.S. Navy ships have sailed through the body of water separating China from Taiwan, [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(LONDON) — Two weeks ago the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar deemed it safe to start repatriating Rohingya refugees to their home country. More than 2,000 refugees were put on a list, without their knowledge, [Read More…]

Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images(HOOVER, Ala.) — A 20-year-old man has been apprehended in connection to a Thanksgiving shooting at a mall in Hoover, Alabama, that left a 21-year-old dead, law enforcement sources told ABC [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — A financial dispute motivated a New Jersey man to kill his brother, sister-in-law and young niece and nephew and set their mansion ablaze before going to his home in a nearby [Read More…]