PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A massive fire at a chemical plant near Houston is prompting evacuations, according to authorities. All employees are accounted for, with only one worker suffering a minor burn injury, according to Sound Resource Solutions, which owns the plant. Evacuations were in process in the town […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NASHVILLE) — An 18-year-old college freshman was shot in the head and very critically wounded while she was walking on a track in Nashville, authorities said. Shaquille Taylor, 29, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and evidence tampering for allegedly shooting Jillian Ludwig Tuesday afternoon, according […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and […]
JNI/Star Max/GC Images (NEW YORK) — After years of distancing herself from her father’s business empire, Ivanka Trump will be appearing in court Wednesday as the state’s final witness in the New York attorney general’s $250 million civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump and his namesake company. A […]
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 […]
