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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad) – Authorities are on high alert in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, following a shooting incident that left five people dead. Around 8 p.m. Wednesday, local time, officers [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Oceans all over the world are experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures, but waters off the southern U.S. could be on the brink of an ocean heat wave emergency as temperatures rise to [Read More…]

ABC News (UPPER MAKEFIELD, Pa.) — Divers were poised Thursday to search for a 2-year-old girl and her 9-month-old brother who were washed away with their mother in a flash flood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, [Read More…]

File photo. (Chad Cowan/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A powerful tornado ripped through central North Carolina for more than a dozen miles on Wednesday, destroying homes and injuring residents, according to officials. The National Weather [Read More…]

Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Texas authorities are doubling down and pushing back on disturbing allegations of migrant abuse along the United States-Mexico border. A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public [Read More…]

DuKai photographer/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — At least one Delta passenger was taken to the hospital for heat-related illness after the plane sat on the tarmac for hours on Monday in Las Vegas, where temperatures [Read More…]

DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images (MIDDLETOWN, Conn.) — New England liberal arts college Wesleyan University has ended legacy admissions in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down race-based affirmative action. In a statement released Wednesday, University President Michael [Read More…]

Howard Schnapp/Newsday RM via Getty Images (MASSAPEQUA, N.Y.) — The wife of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has filed for divorce nearly a week after the Manhattan architect was arrested in the case, according [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A swath of the United States is facing a dangerous combination of extreme heat and wildfire smoke this week. More than 85 million Americans across 15 states — from California to [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEWARK, N.J.) — A New Jersey Ponzi scheme architect, whose 24-year prison sentence was commuted by then-President Donald Trump in 2021, has been arrested again Wednesday on charges he defrauded investors by making [Read More…]

In this photo released by the Hoover Police Department, Carlee Russell is shown. — Hoover Police Department (HOOVER, Ala.) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who returned home on Saturday after she went missing for two [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A swath of the United States is facing a dangerous combination of extreme heat and wildfire smoke this week. More than 85 million Americans across 15 states — from California to [Read More…]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court. “Trump has failed to show [Read More…]

In this photo released by the Hoover Police Department, Carlee Russell is shown. — Hoover Police Department (HOOVER, Ala.) — Carlethia “Carlee” Russell, the Alabama woman who returned home on Saturday after she went missing [Read More…]

Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (NEW YORK) — Police have called the Gilgo Beach murders “one of the most consequential homicide investigations” in Long Island’s history. The search for missing sex worker Shannan Gilbert led to [Read More…]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E. Jean Carroll that [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A swath of the United States is facing a dangerous combination of extreme heat and wildfire smoke this week. More than 85 million Americans across 15 states — from California [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (CLAYCOMO, Mo.) — A Ford assembly plant in Claycomo, Missouri, was evacuated and shut down on Tuesday night after police received a report about a possible threat. At a press conference, Clay [Read More…]

FBI (HOUSTON) — A man who’s been nicknamed the “Sticky Note Bandit” robbed another bank in Houston on Tuesday, marking his fourth robbery in two weeks, the FBI said. “He has committed four robberies in [Read More…]

David Ryder/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) — Idaho prosecutors responded to a suggestion from the defense that suspect Bryan Kohberger’s DNA could have been planted at the scene of last year’s quadruple murder, saying it does [Read More…]