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Thai Royal Navy SEALS(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — A former Thai navy SEAL died on Friday working to deliver supplies to the soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand, according to official reports. The rescuer [Read More…]

KATU/ABC News(PORTLAND, Oregon) — While campaigning in her district, the cops were called on a black lawmaker as she was meeting voters door to door. Rep. Janelle Bynum represents the 51st District in the Oregon [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SALISBURY, U.K.) — Novichok may sound like a villain from a James Bond movie, but it’s actually a chemical weapon. The nerve agent has been blamed for the almost fatal poisoning of a former Russian [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A newspaper serially publishing the Declaration of Independence on social media this week got an unexpected surprise: Facebook had blocked one of the posts. The Liberty County Vindicator, a newspaper in southeastern Texas, [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…]

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…]