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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  A new survey reveals that millennials are the most likely to want to take a trip with their families. The poll, commissioned by the travel site Ebates, found that 61% of millennials [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The record for the largest wildfire in California history fell on Monday after just eight months as the Mendocino Complex Fire passed the Thomas Fire, from last December, to set [Read More…]

Ashrrita Chinchankar(MUMBAI, India) — When Ashrrita Chinchankar’s mother, Pooja, first started working as a flight attendant for Air India, she would look at the few female pilots she saw around her and feel awe at [Read More…]

Facebook(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — The father of missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts said on Monday that he believes his daughter may be with someone who misunderstood her intentions and created a situation that’s spiraling [Read More…]

Taos County Sheriff’s Office(PHOENIX, Arizona) — The hunt for a father who allegedly kidnapped his sick son in Georgia led to the discovery of 11 abused children in New Mexico. The case is still being [Read More…]

Brooks Kraft/ Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Facebook on Monday announced that it took down four pages belonging to rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, including his “Infowars” radio show, citing violations of the platform’s hate speech [Read More…]

Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Fitbit(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Defense is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features on their devices while serving in certain locations after concerns that the information transmitted from such devices was [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(LOS ANGELES) — Not long after President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for California as it fights multiple large wildfires, he blamed California’s Democratic governor for what he said was a lack of water [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — It’s one of the oddest, if not the toughest, roles he has ever played. Steven Seagal, the 1990s action movie star, has been enlisted as a special envoy by Russia’s foreign ministry to [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A legal defense fund set up to help Trump allies caught up in the ongoing probe of Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election does not appear to have spent any [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  In the middle of busy Sunday brunch, employees at a popular Upper West Side restaurant in Manhattan discovered something very unexpected in the kitchen. A man who had been hiding in the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ZURICH) — The airline whose vintage World War II plane crashed into a mountain in southeastern Switzerland, killing all 20 people on board, said it was “deeply saddened” and has suspended all flight operations until [Read More…]

Joshua Lott/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city’s police superintendent made an emotional plea for help in holding repeat gun offenders accountable after a deadly weekend in the Illinois city. “We have [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  Study shows adults in the U.S. spend more than 11 hours a day interacting with media   It’s no surprise that people in the United States are massively into mass media, but [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office(IOWA CITY, Iowa) — The reward for information about missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts is now $260,000, breaking a record in that part of the state. The 20-year-old University of Iowa [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — If the recent dry and hot weather wasn’t problem enough, another heat wave is on the way for the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle to start the work [Read More…]

Atlanta Police Department(ATLANTA) — A very lucky passenger in a car accident in Atlanta has two police officers to thank for saving his life from an inferno consuming the vehicle. Two officers from the Atlanta [Read More…]

WABC(NEW YORK) — A baby boy was pronounced dead on Sunday after tourists found him floating in New York’s East River wearing only a diaper, police said. Tourists from Oklahoma discovered the child lying unconscious [Read More…]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(CARACAS) — Several drones armed with explosives were detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas Saturday in what he called an assassination attempt carried out by “far-right” opponents. A government official termed [Read More…]

ABC News(LOMOK, Indonesia) — At least 91 people are dead and hundreds more injured as a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Indonesia’s popular tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, according to Indonesian authorities and the U.S. [Read More…]