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Andrew Esiebo/Getty Images for Global Citizen (PALM SPRINGS, CA) — A helicopter carrying six people, including the CEO of a Nigerian bank, crashed in California’s Mojave Desert, killing all people on board, officials said. The two crew members and four passengers departed from Palm Springs, California, at 8:45 p.m. Friday and were en route to […]

Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Monarch butterfly sightings may be sparser than usual in the U.S. and Canada following a drastic drop in populations wintering in Mexico, researchers told ABC News. The annual census of the number of monarchs that winter in Central Mexico showed that the population decreased “precipitously,” the Xerces Society for Invertebrate […]

MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images (GAZA) — An animal rescue organization in the Gaza Strip says it’s trying to keep alive not only family members amid the Israel-Hamas war, but also hundreds of dogs, cats and donkeys. “We have already lost everything, but at least the animals are still with me,” Saeed Al Err, the founder […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed reports saying people were dying of hunger in his country, but allowed that people “may have died” due to malnutrition-associated illnesses. “There are no people dying due to hunger in Ethiopia,” Ahmed told lawmakers in Parliament on Tuesday. Authorities in Tigray are warning that […]

File photo. (Vladimir Seliverstov / 500px/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A pod of orcas that appeared to be trapped by drift sea ice off Japan’s main northern island of Hokkaido has seemingly escaped the icy enclosure, according to a local official. Officials from the town of Rausu conducted a land-based search for the whales for […]

Kryssia Campos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Conservationists said they have obtained the first-ever video of a baby spider monkey birth in the wild as the critically endangered species struggles to repopulate amid continued habitat loss. A baby brown-headed spider monkey named Anku was born on Jan. 22 in the Chocó, a tropical forest region in […]

ABC News (RAFAH AND LONDON) — In the sand dunes above Rafah in southern Gaza, a ricochet of children’s laughter rings out, mixing with the unrelenting sound of Israeli reconnaissance drones. This odd combination can be heard most days as children from the tent city populated by the displaced gather to fly their kites, finding […]

Peter Muhly – WPA Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is open to a prisoner swap for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who’s been detained for over 300 days in the country. In an interview published on his website on Thursday, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson pressed Putin […]

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor and right-wing media personality, has recorded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin and Carlson. The interview, which has yet to air, would be the first interview Putin has granted to a Western journalist since he launched […]

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Last month’s global temperatures led to the warmest January on record, continuing a pattern of eight consecutive hottest months on record, according to scientists. The average surface air temperature on Earth in January was 13.14 degrees Celsius, or 55.65 degrees Fahrenheit — about 1.26 degrees Fahrenheit above the […]