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William Douglas / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Higher ocean temperatures are expected to be detected in the Pacific Ocean by 2030, several decades earlier than previously predicted, new research suggests. Natural climate variability in the Pacific is largely governed by El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which involves the warm phase, El Nino, when surface water […]

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — China has stolen more of Americans business and personal data than all other countries put together, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a House committee Tuesday. “China’s vast hacking program is the world’s largest and they have stolen more Americans personal and business data than every other nation combined,” Wray told […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday disputed a claim by Poland that a missile strike that hit a Polish village killing two people came from Ukrainian air defenses. Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier had called the incident a “tragic accident.” “I have no doubt that it was not our rocket,” […]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take […]

YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Actor Kevin Spacey will face an additional seven sexual assault charges in the United Kingdom, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The charges to be filed stem from alleged incidents in 2001 and 2004, with one victim, prosecutors said. Spacey will face three counts of indecent assault, three counts […]

ABC News (RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany) — At the heart of Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a mysterious new division of military personnel is quietly working to keep America and its allies safe from hostile attacks—in space. NATO’s Space Centre was created just two years ago in response to satellite threats from Russia and China; […]

CT757fan/Getty Images (LONDON) — An American aid worker was gunned down in Baghdad on Monday, officials said. Millennium Relief and Development Services, a Texas-based international aid group, confirmed in a statement that one of its workers was “shot and killed by armed attackers as he returned to this home on Monday evening.” His name has […]

Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News has obtained a letter sent by a top Ukrainian official to senior members of Congress, asking them to assist Ukraine’s calls for additional air defense systems to counter the attack drones built and supplied by Iran to bolster Russia’s war effort. Russia has launched waves […]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take […]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take […]