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iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border be [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is flying to North Korea for his fourth round of meetings with nuclear negotiators, as the Trump administration insists it is not backing down from its demand for [Read More…]

Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — It’s been an emotional week for the survivors of the shooting at a newspaper office in Maryland, marked with tributes to their slain colleagues. First there was confusion over the [Read More…]

Asaf Zmirly(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — In northern Thailand, rescuers are working around the clock to save 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped inside a partly flooded cave for almost two weeks. [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The woman who scaled Lady Liberty on the Fourth of July was formally charged in federal court Thursday. Therese Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, New York, was charged with trespassing, interference with [Read More…]

Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, met with young leaders from across the Commonwealth at a reception Thursday at Marlborough House in London. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border be [Read More…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — With heavy rains forecast for this weekend, rescuers are racing against time and Mother Nature to drain a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(AMESBURY, U.K.) — A couple who has fallen critically ill in England is at the center of a widening investigation into whether they were exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent that previously sickened a former [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches. On America’s birthday, 77 damaging storms [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — After a midflight love connection went viral, a mystery couple gave everyone a glimmer of hope for a happy ending. “I walked on a plane just ready to get home and ended up [Read More…]

ABC News(LANCASTER, Penn.) — The 27-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man shot in the back with a Taser as he sat on the curb said the incident wasn’t racially motivated — it was caused by incompetence. “I [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches. On America’s birthday, 77 damaging storms [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A 44-year-old protester picked a patriotic location this Independence Day: the Statue of Liberty. Therese Patricia Okoumou, of Staten Island, was arrested after scaling the base of the statue and taking [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A protester picked a patriotic location to demonstrate on Wednesday by climbing the Statue of Liberty. The unidentified female protester scaled the base of the statue and took up temporary residence [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — The 12 boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped inside a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand appeared healthy and upbeat in new video released Wednesday morning. The footage, taken [Read More…]

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office(FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz.) — A 92-year-old woman was charged with murder for allegedly shooting her son after he threatened to move her into an assisted living facility, authorities said. Anna Mae Blessing [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A protester picked a patriotic location to demonstrate on Wednesday by climbing the Statue of Liberty. The unidentified female protester scaled the base of the statue and took up temporary residence [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SALISBURY, England) — Two people in England have been confirmed to have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, the same chemical weapon that was used against an ex-Russian spy earlier this year. British police [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Text messages are notorious for misconstruing tone, but a recent exchange led to one person losing her job. An apparently heartless text response to a request for time off was shared online [Read More…]