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(PHILADELPHIA) — A fast-moving fire in a Philadelphia row house that killed 12 people last week, including nine children, likely started after a Christmas tree was lit ablaze with a lighter, fire officials said Tuesday. [Read More…]

Jena Ardell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — School staffing shortages caused by the recent COVID-19 omicron surge have gotten so bad in at least two school districts that officials are turning to parents to keep classes going. [Read More…]

JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 838,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]

iStock/Kamonchai Mattakulphon (NEW YORK) — The deadly blaze that tore through a New York City building in the Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx has left many residents homeless, displaced or in need of basic necessities [Read More…]

iStock (NEW YORK) — Robert Durst, a convicted murder who was awaiting trial on a separate murder charge, died of natural causes while in custody early Monday morning, his lawyer said. Durst, 78, was sentenced [Read More…]

Getty IMages/Christopher Kimmel (NEW YORK) — The coldest air of the season is moving into the Northeast on Monday night, sending temperatures plummeting by Tuesday morning. The wind chill — what temperature it feels like [Read More…]

iStock/motortion (NEW YORK) — Seventeen people, including eight children, after dozens were injured in a fire at a Bronx apartment in New York City. Officials previously reported that 19 people — including nine children — [Read More…]

iStock/sshepard (NEW YORK) — The University of Pennsylvania came under fire this week after a law professor made inflammatory comments about Asians and the Asian-American community during an interview. Amy Wax, in speaking to Brown [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 833,000 Americans, according to [Read More…]

iStock/PeopleImages (NEW YORK) — Just a few minutes after the clock struck midnight, James “Roe” Williams was fatally shot by police on New Year’s Day. The Canton Police Department has now released body camera footage [Read More…]

iStock/Kamonchai Mattakulphon (DENVER) — Officials have identified the first confirmed casualty of a devastating wildfire in Colorado. Partial human remains found Wednesday at a home in unincorporated Boulder County destroyed by the Marshall Fire have [Read More…]

iStock/ijoe84 (NEW YORK) — The Amber Alert for Lina Sardar Khil, a missing 3-year-old girl in San Antonio, was suspended on Friday afternoon, but police stressed that the investigation is ongoing. “While the Amber Alert [Read More…]

Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A National Response Team is being activated to help with the investigation into Wednesday’s devastating fire in Philadelphia. A residential fire in a converted apartment building killed 12 people, including [Read More…]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 832,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 90 million people around the country are expecting hazardous weather on Thursday into Friday morning. Thirty-seven states are under winter weather alerts for heavy snow, ice, brutal cold [Read More…]

US Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — As police across the country have grappled with illegal guns on American streets, an increasing number of those weapons are “ghost guns” they say — guns that lack [Read More…]

Jon Hicks/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Egyptian American has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of Egypt as he “tracked and obtained information regarding political opponents” of the Egyptian president, federal prosecutors [Read More…]

Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group/Daily Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 827,000 Americans, according to [Read More…]

(File photo) – Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — At least 13 people were killed in a row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News. [Read More…]

Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — By the end of day three of deliberations in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, the jury had already decided to find the fallen Theranos [Read More…]