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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Another day of blistering heat is in store for much of the Northeast. A prolonged heat wave is gripping the Northeast, with heat index values near 100 degrees Monday in major cities [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — It’s marketed as a “guilt-free” pleasure, but a lawsuit charges Halo Top low-calorie ice cream is guilty of one thing: short-scooping customers. Two people from California filed a federal class-action lawsuit charging [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — A federal judge has approved a temporary restraining order that allows the nearly 1,800 Puerto Rican survivors of Hurricane Maria to stay in temporary housing for another four days. Following [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Three days after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newspaper office, killing five staff, the publication in Annapolis, Maryland, thanked the community for its support in a piece printed on [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) — The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, happened 30 years this week. One hundred sixty-seven workers perished in the fire that followed an explosion on July 6, 1988, caused [Read More…]

Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office(CANTON, Ga.) — Police in Georgia showed up at an upscale house in Cherokee County looking for a suspected criminal on Friday only to find a completely unrelated $1.2 million marijuana grow [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday. The Costilla County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Jesper [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A multiday heat wave that brought a heat index reading of 112 degrees to Chicago on Saturday will reach its peak in the Northeast on Sunday. Temperatures were in the 90s [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MEXICO CITY) — In Mexico, money in politics is a matter of life and death. More than 100 people have been killed in connection with Mexico’s upcoming elections on Sunday, according to a study conducted [Read More…]

Patrick Haar/Getty Images(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — Families of the crew of an Argentine submarine that went missing in November chained themselves to the gates of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the hope of [Read More…]

Sarah Morris/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Thousands of people marched in cities across the United States protesting the separation migrant at the Mexican border as part of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on unauthorized immigration. From [Read More…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(THAM LUANG CAVE, Thailand) — It’s been one week since 12 boys and their soccer coach disappeared inside a flooded cave in the mountains of northern Thailand, and rescuers are in a race [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Arriving nearly one minute before her 7-year-old son stepped into the terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Brenda rushed to embrace Kevin, after having been apart for a month and [Read More…]

ABC News(LANCASTER, Pa.) — A crowd of protesters gathered on the steps of an old courthouse in southern Pennsylvania on Friday evening, one day after a video posted on social media showed a local officer [Read More…]

Luis Boza/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — A left-wing nationalist known as “Amlo” is poised to become Mexico’s next president and shake up the status quo with his promises to transform his country, including its [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration last year “lost” nearly 1,500 migrant children whom a government agency placed with U.S. sponsors. Shocking news — but it wasn’t true. But it was enough to [Read More…]

Craig Barritt/Getty Images/William Hill Sports Book(ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.) — Atlantic City is expected to draw its largest crowds in years as two new, monster resorts opened Thursday with a lineup of A-list entertainers. Hard Rock [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GIZA, Egypt) — Not too far from the Great Pyramids of Giza is the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum. The new museum will house 100,000 artifacts — from Egypt’s prehistoric times to its Greek and [Read More…]