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iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) — The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, happened 30 years this week. One hundred sixty-seven workers perished in the fire that followed an explosion on July 6, 1988, caused [Read More…]

Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office(CANTON, Ga.) — Police in Georgia showed up at an upscale house in Cherokee County looking for a suspected criminal on Friday only to find a completely unrelated $1.2 million marijuana grow [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday. The Costilla County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Jesper [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A multiday heat wave that brought a heat index reading of 112 degrees to Chicago on Saturday will reach its peak in the Northeast on Sunday. Temperatures were in the 90s [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MEXICO CITY) — In Mexico, money in politics is a matter of life and death. More than 100 people have been killed in connection with Mexico’s upcoming elections on Sunday, according to a study conducted [Read More…]

Patrick Haar/Getty Images(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — Families of the crew of an Argentine submarine that went missing in November chained themselves to the gates of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the hope of [Read More…]

Sarah Morris/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Thousands of people marched in cities across the United States protesting the separation migrant at the Mexican border as part of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on unauthorized immigration. From [Read More…]

Linh Pham/Getty Images(THAM LUANG CAVE, Thailand) — It’s been one week since 12 boys and their soccer coach disappeared inside a flooded cave in the mountains of northern Thailand, and rescuers are in a race [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Arriving nearly one minute before her 7-year-old son stepped into the terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Brenda rushed to embrace Kevin, after having been apart for a month and [Read More…]

ABC News(LANCASTER, Pa.) — A crowd of protesters gathered on the steps of an old courthouse in southern Pennsylvania on Friday evening, one day after a video posted on social media showed a local officer [Read More…]

Luis Boza/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) — A left-wing nationalist known as “Amlo” is poised to become Mexico’s next president and shake up the status quo with his promises to transform his country, including its [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration last year “lost” nearly 1,500 migrant children whom a government agency placed with U.S. sponsors. Shocking news — but it wasn’t true. But it was enough to [Read More…]

Craig Barritt/Getty Images/William Hill Sports Book(ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.) — Atlantic City is expected to draw its largest crowds in years as two new, monster resorts opened Thursday with a lineup of A-list entertainers. Hard Rock [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GIZA, Egypt) — Not too far from the Great Pyramids of Giza is the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum. The new museum will house 100,000 artifacts — from Egypt’s prehistoric times to its Greek and [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Another senior American diplomat is leaving the foreign service because of President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric. U.S. Ambassador to Estonia James Melville posted on his personal Facebook page Friday to condemn Trump’s [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Many of the major cities in the Midwest and Northeast — from Chicago to Washington, D.C. — began a heat wave on Friday. New York City, which missed a 90-degree reading [Read More…]

Anne Arundel Police(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The attorney who represented a woman who was harassed by alleged Maryland newsroom shooter Jarrod Ramos from 2009 to 2011 described him as a “dangerous person.” Nearly seven years ago, [Read More…]

WJLA(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Members of the tight-knit community of Annapolis, Maryland, gathered to mourn the loss of five people who were shot and killed Thursday in the newsroom of its local newspaper, the Capital Gazette. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The heat index is a calculated temperature value of how hot it really feels when the amount of moisture in the air is factored in with the actual air temperature outside. This [Read More…]

(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — Alex Wroblewski/Getty ImagesThe Capital Gazette newspaper, where a gunman killed five people, is receiving an outpouring of support from the journalism community and the public. Capital Gazette’s parent company has set up [Read More…]