400tmax/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Leaders of nations from the Pacific region will gather in San Francisco for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in San Francisco next week — and the U.S. Secret Service has a plan to thwart threats amid heightened international tensions. With wars ongoing in multiple regions […]
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — They’re leaving town — and for millions of their adoring fans — you could call it, well, unbearable. After more than two decades of “panda diplomacy,” Washington’s popular pandas were being returned to China Wednesday. The Smithsonian National Zoo’s three current pandas, Mei […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alfonso Basurto watched as the home that housed his family of seven burned to the ground in the Maui wildfires on Aug. 8. He raced to the property to check if some of his children, between the ages of 14 and 21, were there […]
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former CIA officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of sexually abusing and drugging more than two dozen women during his service postings overseas. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 47, admitted in court on Tuesday to keeping nearly 500 videos and photos he took of naked […]
Quinn Owen/ABC News (NOGALES, Ariz.) — Senior government officials are concerned that Congress may not pass enough funding to secure the border, as federal authorities work under immense pressure to stop illegal narcotics smuggling. ABC News took an exclusive look at ground zero for the fight against one particularly deadly […]
Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Kimberly Mata-Rubio, the mother of Uvalde victim Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio, lost a special election to become mayor in Uvalde, Texas. Cody Smith was elected as the next mayor of Uvalde, serving a one-year term in the city that has a population of a […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Calgary 4, Nashville 2 Arizona 4, Seattle 3 (OT) Colorado 6, New Jersey 3 Pittsburgh 2, Anaheim 0 San Jose 2, Philadelphia 1 Carolina 3, Buffalo 2 (OT) Tampa Bay 5, Montreal 3 NY Rangers […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Criminal justice reform advocate Adam Foss has been acquitted of rape and sexual abuse charges, more than a year after he was charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in a 2022 indictment. Foss had met his 25-year-old accuser in 2017 at a Midtown […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Authorities are calling for footage to determine what led up to a deadly altercation at an Israel-Hamas war protest in California over the weekend amid conflicting witness reports, the sheriff said. Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, died from blunt-force head trauma following a confrontation […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man with a gun has been arrested in a park near the U.S. Capitol, according to Capitol Police. “USCP Officers just arrested a man with a gun in the park across from Union Station. At this time we have no reason to believe […]
