Joe Raedle/Getty Images (Merritt Island, Fla.) — After several postponed launches, Axiom Space’s four private astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). The multinational crew lifted off successfully aboard a SpaceX Dragon launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A life-threatening heat wave has enveloped the East Coast, hitting cities with the worst of the high temperatures on Tuesday before relief moves in later in the week. This is the first major heat wave of the season, with extreme heat warnings and heat advisories in effect […]
David McNew/Getty Images (PALM SPRINGS, Calif.) — The man charged earlier this month with conspiring to assist the suspected California fertility clinic bomber has died in federal custody, according to a statement from the Bureau of Prisons. Daniel Park was found unresponsive on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in […]
Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) — Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the […]
Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI is planning to reallocate potentially thousands of agents away from immigration enforcement to focus on cyber threats and counterterrorism efforts, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Tuesday. The shift in resources was prompted in part by the U.S. strikes in Iran over the weekend, […]
A man in Washington state was rescued after falling from a tree and spending four to five days in the woods, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office (POULSBO, Wash.) — A Washington state man who was “stuck in the woods for days” after falling from […]
onurdongel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Fourth of July holiday is fast approaching — and it’s going to be a busy one. A record high of 72.2 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home over the July Fourth holiday period (from June 28 to July […]
John Lamparski/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Marshals in Florida have led a missing child operation this month that “resulted in the recovery or safe location of 60 critically missing children,” across the state, officials said. The U.S. Marshals Service Middle District of Florida — working with a number […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A dangerous heat wave has set in, leaving nearly 150 million people from Texas to Maine under heat alerts on Monday. In some regions of the country, including the Northeast, thermometers are expected to rise this week to the highest temperatures in more than decade. Nearly 50 […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A decade of planning and complex deception tactics made last weekend’s historic B-2 bomber strike on Iran possible, according to retired Gen. Robert Spalding, who said he helped develop the original mission plans. The operation, named “Operation Midnight Hammer,” marked the U.S. military’s largest-ever deployment of […]
