Year: 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump defended the use of tear gas by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents to push back Central American migrants who tried to breach the southern border. A day after hundreds [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ISTANBUL) — Turkish security forces raided two adjoining villas in an isolated area of western Turkey Monday morning as part of the ongoing investigation into the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Police officials [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Over 1,300 flights were canceled on this post-Thanksgiving Monday as a dangerous snowstorm tore through the Midwest before heading to the Northeast as rain. Airlines were forced to cancel over 1,200 flights [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) — NASA’s InSight lander landed on Mars Monday afternoon, finishing one journey — through space — and now launching on another: to go deeper into Mars. Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — One day after Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels in waters between the two countries, the U.S. is condemning Russia’s actions in its first remarks on the crisis amid new [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was back on the bench Monday in time for the first oral arguments since she fell earlier this month and suffered three fractured ribs. Ginsburg, [Read More…]

WPVI(PHILADELPHIA) — An 8-year-old boy was shot on the right side of his face and two teenage boys were also wounded in a potentially targeted attack in Philadelphia, according to police. The triple shooting took [Read More…]

Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail(CHARLOTESVILLE, Va.) — Lawyers in Virginia are working to pick the jury that will hear the case against James Alex Fields, the man who faces charges for ramming his car into a crowd [Read More…]

KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images(EGYPT) — A 13th century tomb belonging to a priest and his wife was found in Luxor, Egypt, after five months of excavation work, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities said Saturday. The tomb — [Read More…]

Danny Lehman/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images(DETROIT) — General Motors is laying off 15 percent of its salaried workers and shuttering five plants in North America, the Detroit automaker announced on Monday. The company said it was “transforming its [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(STEWART ISLAND, New Zealand) — )As many as 145 whales have died after a “heart-breaking” mass stranding on a remote island, the New Zealand Department of Conservation said on Monday. The whales were reported to [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin admitted to police that he pushed a man during a street parking dispute this month because he “stole my spot,” but the actor pleaded not guilty in a New York [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) — When NASA’s InSight lander approaches Mars on Monday afternoon, it will finish one journey — through space — and launch on another: to go deeper into Mars. The mechanical three-legged, one-armed mining spacecraft [Read More…]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — The New Year will bring a new home for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The expectant parents have decided to move to Frogmore Cottage on [Read More…]