WHO calls monkeypox outbreak a 'public health emergency'
The World Health Organization made the declaration as monkeypox cases were reported in more than 75 countries, with about 2,900 cases in the U.S., including two children.
The World Health Organization made the declaration as monkeypox cases were reported in more than 75 countries, with about 2,900 cases in the U.S., including two children.
A man accused of shooting three Asian American women at a Dallas hair salon in May was indicted Tuesday on multiple counts, including committing a hate crime and aggravated assault, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office announced. Jeremy Smith, 37, is charged with seven counts of aggravated assault, each with a hate-crime enhancement and punishable by five years to life in prison. Smith allegedly targeted the victims because of "his bias or prejudice against Asian Americans," according to the announcement.
New details are emerging about Olivia Newton-John's upcoming funeral. Born in England, the "Grease" actress grew up in Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews tweeted on Thursday that he was "pleased that Olivia [Newton-John's] family have accepted our offer of a State Memorial Service."
Career staff at the government's watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security prepared a notice to Congress earlier this year about their difficulty obtaining Secret Service text messages connected to Jan. 6, but it was never included as part of the watchdog's regular reporting requirement to lawmakers. New documents reviewed by ABC News, and first obtained by the independent accountability group Project on Government Oversight, show the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG)'s legal office went so far as approving a draft notice to Congress that was ultimately not included in the agency's semi-annual report in June. According to the notice, the DHS used a cumbersome approval process to release requested records to the OIG, which was "requiring [the office] to waste valuable time making inquiries."
The 26-year-old, who goes under the name Courtney Tailor on Instagram, was arrested in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, Wednesday after Miami-Dade County prosecutors issued a warrant for her arrest in the April 3 stabbing, police said. Miami-Dade County's chief medical examiner determined Obumseli's cause of death was a stab to the chest with a knife, which punctured his subclavian artery, Katherine Rundle, the Miami-Dade state attorney, said at a press conference Thursday. The stab wound was the result of a forceful downward thrust, just over 3 inches into the artery, Rundle said.
An hourslong standoff between law enforcement and an armed man who allegedly tried to break into the FBI's Cincinnati office has ended, officials said. Ohio State Highway Patrol started pursuing the suspect shortly after 9:30 a.m. after he allegedly fled from the field office. Troopers followed the suspect, who was driving a white Ford Crown Victoria, to Clinton County, where shots were fired, according to officials.
Dozens of people were injured on a ride at an amusement park in Germany on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred at a Legoland park in Günzburg in Bavaria shortly before 2 p.m. local time, when two trains on a roller coaster collided, local police said in a statement. The accident occurred when one train on the roller coaster stopped, and a train behind it did not brake fully, crashing into it, police said.
A year ago, America ended its longest war and withdrew troops from Afghanistan. After occupying the country for two decades, the withdrawal immediately led to a dangerous situation for any U.S. allies still left in the country, who risked retribution from the Taliban. During the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the bond between two men from opposite worlds proved to be unshakeable and led to the rescue of a desperate family.
Authorities have determined that Harmony Montgomery, a little girl who disappeared in 2019, was murdered in Manchester, New Hampshire, in early December 2019, officials announced Thursday. Harmony would be 8 years old if alive today. Harmony's remains have not been found but "multiple sources of investigative information, including biological evidence," led to the conclusion that she's dead, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said at a news conference.
The man charged in the killings of at least two of the four Muslim men killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in recent months has a history of arrests for domestic violence, police said. Muhammad Syed, 51, is charged with murder in the shooting deaths of 25-year-old Naeem Hussain on Aug. 5 and 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, according to the Albuquerque Police Department. Syed denied being involved in the deaths of the men after he was arrested, according to police.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday afternoon spoke for the first time since FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Citing "the substantial public interest in this matter," Garland said the government had filed a motion to unseal the warrant authorizing Monday's search, which Trump has sharply criticized as a partisan attack. It was not immediately clear how quickly the judge in the case may release the warrant and federal prosecutors noted in their request, filed Thursday, that it should be granted only "absent objection by former President Trump."
One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting that stemmed from an altercation at a Northern California gym, police said. The three people hurt self-transported to hospitals and are expected to survive, Brentwood police told ABC News. The gunshots rang out just before 2 a.m. outside a 24 Hour Fitness in Brentwood, which is about 55 miles east of San Francisco.
Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke publicly Thursday afternoon for the first time on this week's FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. Since I became attorney general, I have made clear that the Department of Justice will speak through its court filings and its work. Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court approved search that the FBI conducted earlier this week.
The current teacher shortage facing the United States is a "five-alarm crisis," according to Rebecca Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers' union in the country. “We have been sounding the alarm for almost a decade and a half that we have a crisis in the number of students who are going into the teaching profession and the number of teachers who are leaving it,” said Pringle. Pringle spoke to ABC News’ “GMA3” Thursday about the shortage of nearly 300,000 educators and support staff across the country.
Three people are dead after a house exploded Wednesday in southern Indiana, officials said. Dozens of firefighters responded to the scene in Evansville, after the blast occurred Wednesday afternoon on the 1000 block of North Weinbach Avenue, officials said. Three deaths have been reported to the Vanderburgh County Coroner's Office as a result of the explosion, Chief Deputy Coroner David Anson said in a statement.
"Only Murders in the Building" co-creator and star Steve Martin has hinted that the comedic whodunit may be his acting swan song. "When this television show is done, I'm not going to seek others," the Emmy winner, 76, told The Hollywood Reporter, in an interview published on Wednesday. Martin joked that his wife Anne Stringfield doesn't believe him when he says he's going to retire.
Previously, the CDC advised that people who were unvaccinated or hadn't received their booster shots should quarantine for five days after exposure. If no symptoms appear, the quarantine can end. The new guidance no longer recommends that unvaccinated people quarantine after exposure, instead suggesting they mask up for 10 days and get tested five days after they were exposed.
Children in London are being offered polio vaccine boosters after sewage samples with the virus were found in multiple areas across the city. The U.K. Health Security Agency announced Wednesday that all children between ages 1 and 9 across the British capital will be eligible to receive an inactivated polio vaccine booster. "While the majority of Londoners are protected from polio, the [National Health Service] will shortly be contacting parents of eligible children aged 1 to 9 years old to offer them a top-up dose to ensure they have maximum protection from the virus," Jane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in London, added.
The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday against an Iranian national and member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard who prosecutors say tried to arrange the murder of John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser. The criminal complaint was filed against 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi. Prosecutors allege that Poursafi tried to arrange the murder of Bolton in “likely” retaliation for the murder of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed on January 3, 2020, during the Trump administration.
Former President Donald Trump received a subpoena in the spring for documents related to what he is believed to have failed to turn over to the National Archives, which had recovered 15 boxes of material from his Mar-a-Lago estate in January, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Authorities on Monday searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in what sources told ABC News was part of a probe into documents that Trump allegedly improperly took to Mar-a-Lago when he departed the White House, all of which were supposed to have been turned over to National Archives officials.
Democrats' likely decision to scrap the state as first-in-the-nation on its presidential nominating calendar -- into a persuasive attack line ahead of the November midterm elections. At the Republican Party of Iowa's annual fundraiser in Des Moines on Wednesday, known as the Lincoln Dinner, national and statewide figures lauded their party's decision to keep the Iowa GOP caucus at the start of the 2024 presidential nominating process, a decades-long tradition that holds pride of place for many Iowans -- but which many Democrats have sought to replace for a move diverse and competitive state.