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Win McNamee/Getty Images (CAEN, France) — President Joe Biden, in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, offered a forceful defense of democracy at a site of American heroism during World War II in a speech that carried 2024 political undertones for those watching in the U.S. Biden on Friday spoke from Pointe du […]
Getty Images – STOCK (LONDON) — Six people, including the alleged gunman, have been arrested in connection with a shooting Wednesday morning near the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, that injured a Lebanese guard, authorities said. Shots from “small arms” were heard at about 8:34 a.m. local time, the embassy said. The […]
Getty Images – STOCK (SEATTLE) — A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed when he apparently tried to break up a fight outside his Seattle high school, according to authorities. The teen was shot multiple times in the Garfield High School parking lot at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, and he died later on Thursday at a […]
ABC (NEW YORK) — Severe weather is shifting into eastern Colorado and Kansas on Saturday, with threats of large hail and damaging winds — and a possible isolated tornado. Meanwhile, record heat will begin to wind down in the western U.S. but will continue in Florida. Isolated severe storms will span across a larger area, […]
In this June 16, 2021, file photo, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) speaks alongside Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) during a press conference on Capitol Hill with members of The American Legion, in Washington, D.C. — Samuel Corum/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A group of American lawmakers honored the bravery of World War II veterans who took […]
Dawam Syah / 500px/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — A Russian cosmonaut became the first person to spend a cumulative 1,000 days in space, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced Wednesday. Oleg Kononenko, 59, reached the record while on his current mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kononenko’s current mission to the ISS began Sept. 15, 2023, […]
Getty Images – STOCK (UKRAINE) — Soon after President Joe Biden announced a new $225 million package of desperately-needed weapons and ammunition for Ukraine during an in-person meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris Friday, he told Biden that to thwart the Russian invasion, Ukraine must be allowed to use the weapons to strike at […]
J.B. Spector/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took the iconic “Earthrise” photograph while in lunar orbit that showed the moon’s surface and Earth, has died, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Friday. He was 90. Anders was piloting a Beechcraft plane that plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands […]
Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Clarence Thomas has formally disclosed for the first time trips to Bali, Indonesia and the elite Bohemian Grove club in California — both paid for by his friend and billionaire Harlan Crow — that were at the center of an explosive ProPublica report last year exposing the […]
Getty Images – STOCK (BELIZE) –Scientists are increasingly turning to Indigenous communities for marine conservation, leaning toward generational practices to reach environmental goals. Indigenous and Native communities, historically pushed to the side by colonizers and explorers in centuries past, are coming to the forefront of ecosystem restoration efforts around the world, experts told ABC News. […]
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