In northeast Wichita, Kansas, a chemicalthat is known to increase the cancer risk to humanshas seeped into the ground for decades, contaminating the groundwater widely unbeknownst to residents, according to local officials. Some 50 years...
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and other dignitaries are safe after ashooting incidentoutside the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Saturday night at the Washington, D.C., Hilton hotel. The incident took p...
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San Francisco rang in the Year of the Fire Horse with its annual Chinese New Year parade Saturday evening, with thousands of revelers cheering on hometown hero and Olympic champion Eileen Gu as its grand marshal. The procession featured drums, danci...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a ...
An elderly driver was injured after crashing through a coffee shop on Thanksgiving night in Los Gatos, California, according to police. The Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department said in a statement Friday that officers were called to the Los Gato...
The Senate on Monday passed a short-term government funding bill and sent it to the House, where a vote could come as early as Wednesday. A key House committee voted 8-4 to advance the legislation early on Wednesday, sending it to the House floor fo...
Mass firings of federal workers begin on day 10 of government shutdownThe administration has argued they have to fire workers to keep essential government services running. The stalemate on Capitol Hill continues, with Democratic and Republican ...
When Dr. Nick Mondek learned his cancer had returned this spring, he didn't know that his 10-year-old son Stephen would eventually become his lifesaving hero. "Stephen is proof that real-life heroes come in all shapes, sizes and even ages,"...
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A 9-year-old boy in Florida was arrested and faces multiple charges for allegedly bringing a loaded revolver onto his school bus, police said. No one was injured in the incident, which unfolded on a school bus Monday morning while students were bein...
Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican said. The pontiff's funeral is scheduled for Saturday, April 26, accordin...
President Donald Trump's severe tariffs against virtually all U.S. trading partners are set to take effect on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. ET. Among his sweeping new trade moves is a hefty 104% tariff rate on China. Trump has described the tariffs as &...
Billionaire Elon Musk will visit the Pentagon on Friday and will attend a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff that will touch on China a U.S. official told ABC News. Trump and other top officials have lashed out at a federal judge as the adminis...
With spring will come warmer temperatures, flora in bloom -- and millions of screaming insects emerging from their resting place beneath the ground. Three species of cicada that only emerge once every 17 years are gearing up to spring to the surfac...
For the last 130 years, four generations of Ernest Lepore's family have baked the pastries – cream puffs, cannoli, sfogliatelle – that have come to define Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood, withstanding wars, economic downturns and d...
President Donald Trump's administration is continuing its radical effort to cut much of the federal government and crackdown on immigration -- and is being met with dozens of legal challenges. More than 6,000 Internal Revenue Service wor...
President Donald Trump's administration, including Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, is continuing its sweeping effort to cut much of the federal government -- but it's being met with legal challenges. Trump is also making his seco...
President Donald Trump's second administration continues its swift recasting of the federal government, prompting pushback from Democrats and legal challenges. The administration is expected on Friday to reduce the USAID workforce from 14,000 to on...