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New Year around the world: Pacific nations welcome 2025
Saeed Khan via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday. [Read More…]
Search for answers in deadly South Korean plane crash mystery
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A team of U.S. investigators arrived in South Korea to assist local aviation officials as they comb the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed [Read More…]
US transfers Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia
Sylvie Lanteaume via Getty Images (GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA) — The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced that Guantanamo Bay detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi had been repatriated to Tunisia, a transfer that leaves 26 [Read More…]
Jimmy Carter leaves behind a global public health work legacy
The Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As world leaders mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter and remark on his political and policy legacy, doctors are remembering his efforts to prevent disease, [Read More…]
Lawsuit alleges ‘irreplaceable’ Elvis Presley artifacts illegally put up for auction
The Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (MEMPHIS, TN) — The gatekeepers of Elvis Presley’s estate are trying to recover a potential trove of records and memorabilia left behind by the King of Rock and Roll, [Read More…]
US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year
Police investigate a mass shooting that erupted on June 2, 2024, that left one man dead and 28 people injured at a large street party in Akron, Ohio. (ABC News/WEWS) (NEW YORK) — Homicides across [Read More…]
Ryan Seacrest talks resolutions, hosting ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
Disney/Gizelle Hernandez The clock is about to strike midnight on the last day of 2024. Helping to ring in the new year again is Ryan Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Tuesday [Read More…]
Treasury Department hit in cyberbreach by China-sponsored actor, officials say
STOCK PHOTO/Adobe Stock (WASHINGTON) — The Treasury Department was breached by a China-sponsored actor earlier this month, officials told Congress in a letter on Monday. The “major” breach was achieved by gaining access to a [Read More…]
Special counsel Jack Smith withdraws from appeal of classified docs case against Trump’s co-defendants
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has withdrawn from their appeal of the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump’s co-defendants and referred the case to the United States Attorney’s Office [Read More…]
Respiratory virus activity is ‘high’ as cases increase in US: CDC
Sdi Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Respiratory illness activity – a measure of how often conditions like the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus are diagnosed – is currently “high” in the United [Read More…]
Bernie Madoff’s victims to receive final payout totaling $131 million
Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The fund disbursing money to the victims of Bernie Madoff’s legendary Ponzi scheme began its 10th and final distribution on Monday, putting another $131 million in the [Read More…]
Strong winds, dry fuel spark concerns for wildfires in West Texas, New Mexico
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Red flag warnings were issued Monday due to critical fire danger in West Texas, eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma/Kansas/Colorado corner. The combination of warm temperatures, gusty winds and low [Read More…]
‘Gone Girl’ kidnapper charged in home invasions from years earlier
Dublin Police Services, FILE (CALIFORNIA) — The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Northern California woman in a case that became known nationwide as the “Gone Girl” kidnapping has now been charged with [Read More…]
FBI issues warning about burglaries of pro athletes’ homes
David Eulitt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI has issued a formal warning to sports leagues about organized theft groups targeting professional athletes. The warning follows a rash of burglaries, beginning in September, at the homes [Read More…]
Former President Jimmy Carter, celebrated champion of human rights, dies at 100
Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the [Read More…]
Shares of Boeing slide after South Korea plane crash
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shares of Boeing fell in early trading on Monday, one day after a Boeing model 737-800 was involved in the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed scores of [Read More…]
Will Ferrell dresses in full ‘Elf’ gear for NHL hockey game
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Will Ferrell is closing out the holiday season in iconic form. The actor and comedian was spotted at the Los Angeles Kings game Sunday night, sitting rinkside decked head to toe in [Read More…]
Gal Gadot reveals she had ‘massive blood clot’ in brain while pregnant
Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Gal Gadot is opening up about a scary medical condition she faced midpregnancy this year. The Wonder Woman actress shared in an Instagram post Sunday that she had been diagnosed with “a massive blood clot” in her [Read More…]
Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin dies at 87
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and star of the 1970s sitcom Alice, has died at age 87. She passed away unexpectedly Sunday due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her PR rep [Read More…]
Keanu Reeves’ stolen Rolex and other luxury watches recovered in Chile: Police
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Three luxury watches, including a Rolex worth about $9,000, that were stolen from actor Keanu Reeves‘ Los Angeles home have been discovered in Chile, police confirmed to ABC News. Authorities in Chile said a man was [Read More…]