At least 9 dead in flooding as torrential rain batters Seoul
The rainfall, which is the heaviest since South Korea began tracking precipitation, is expected to last until Wednesday.
The rainfall, which is the heaviest since South Korea began tracking precipitation, is expected to last until Wednesday.
For the fourth straight day, residents of the Midwest and the Great Plains were bracing for dangerous tornado weather, a day after at least 26 twisters tore through three states, killing multiple people in Iowa, officials said. As severe weather is forecast to move into the south and east and stretch from New York state to Texas on Wednesday, the town of Greenfield, Iowa, was left ripped to shreds with about half the town destroyed, officials said. A "devastating" tornado hit Greenfield, southwest of Des Moines, causing fatalities and injuries in the area, Sgt. Alex Dinkla of the Iowa State Patrol said at a news conference Tuesday night.
The House of Representatives came to standstill on Wednesday as lawmakers quibbled about criticism of Donald Trump and his legal woes. Legislative business was paused on the floor for an hour as Republicans demanded the words of Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, be taken down from the congressional record. McGovern listed off a series of facts about the four criminal cases against Trump, which total 88 counts.
A new portrait of Kate, the Princess of Wales, is drawing mixed reactions online, just one week after a portrait of her father-in-law, King Charles III, faced a similar response. The portrait of Kate Middleton, the wife of Charles' eldest son, Prince William, was commissioned by Tatler magazine as part of a series of portraits of members of Britain's royal family. The portrait was unveiled Wednesday as the magazine's cover.
The second human case of bird flu associated with the current outbreak among livestock has been confirmed in Michigan, health officials said Wednesday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said the case was identified in a Michigan farmworker who had regular exposure to livestock infected bird flu, or avian influenza. The farmworker experienced mild symptoms and has since recovered.
With the crisis in Gaza worsening, a private humanitarian group staffed with former military and intelligence officials stumbled upon a surprising hurdle in its efforts to help the United States government rush supplies to Palestinian residents by boat: For several weeks, there was little to no aid ready to move. Fogbow, an independent outfit, said it had expected there would be large-scale donations of food, medicine and other supplies piling up at a port in Cyprus, where aid was supposed to be staged and screened by the Israelis before being shipped to the Gaza coast via a U.S.-built pier known as JLOTs, or the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore capability. When that aid didn’t materialize, Fogbow officials knocked on the doors of several local flour mills in Cyprus -- eventually purchasing nearly 2.5 million pounds of flour that it now plans to ship in early June.
The U.S. Capitol Police said they temporarily locked down the Republican National Committee's Washington, D.C., headquarters on Wednesday morning after a suspicious package containing two vials of blood was found. "The package was cleared by our Hazardous Incident Response Division," Capitol Police said in a statement later in the morning. The RNC thanked officers for their swift work.
On Wednesday, the trailer for Andrew McCarthy's "BRATS" documentary dropped and features the actor reaching out to and reuniting with some of the legendary actors from that time period who were part of the group dubbed the "Brat Pack." "If you were coming of age in the 1980s, the brat pack was near the center of your cultural awareness," McCarthy says in the beginning of the trailer as he walks through the streets of New York City. "But for those of us experiencing it from the inside, the brat pack was something very different."
Nineteen families whose loved ones were killed or hurt in the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting announced they've reached a settlement with the city and county of Uvalde. "For two long years, we have languished in pain and without any accountability from the law enforcement agencies and officers who allowed our families to be destroyed that day," Veronica Luevanos, whose daughter, Jailah, and nephew, Jayce, were killed, said in a statement Wednesday. "This settlement reflects a first good faith effort, particularly by the City of Uvalde, to begin rebuilding trust in the systems that failed to protect us."
The late Lisa Marie Presley was the only child of iconic rocker Elvis Presley and wife Priscilla Presley. Presley died Jan. 12, 2023, 20 days shy of her 55th birthday, according to a family publicist. In a 2012 interview with "The Guardian," Presley said she would want to be remembered "as a good mum, mostly, and a pretty OK singer-songwriter."
Facing backlash, former President Donald Trump has tried to walk back comments he made suggesting he's open to restricting contraceptives. During an interview with Pittsburgh TV station KDKA-TV, Trump was asked if he supports any restrictions on a person's right to contraceptives. "Well, we're looking at that and we're going to have a policy on that very shortly," Trump responded with.
The FBI has issued a rare statement after former President Donald Trump and several GOP lawmakers spread false claims suggesting President Joe Biden authorized his assassination during the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022. In a fundraising email responding to right-wing media reports that offered a distorted reading of a newly-unsealed court filing in Trump's classified documents case, Trump falsely claimed Biden was "locked & loaded ready to take me out." In a separate post on his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening, Trump further said he was "shown Reports" that Biden's DOJ "AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE" in their search of the property for classified documents.
Elvis Presley's home of Graceland will not be hitting the auction block on Thursday after all. In a hearing Wednesday that only lasted about eight minutes, Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins adjourned the sale of Graceland, saying, "The notary has sworn that the notary did not notarize the signature of Lisa Marie Presley on the deed of trust, which brings into question the authenticity of the signature." Actress Riley Keough, Presley's granddaughter, was trying to stop a company called Naussany Investments and Private Lending LLC from conducting an auction outside the Shelby County Courthouse on Thursday at noon.
Former NFL star Jason Kelce and his wife Kylie are the parents of three daughters. On the May 15, episode episode of his podcast "New Heights," Jason Kelce shared that the couple's two eldest daughters, Wyatt and Elliotte, now both attend the same preschool that Kylie Kelce attended as a child. "It’s fun listening to your kids talk about what they did for the day, who they’re meeting in their little classes," Jason Kelce said of his daughters being old enough to attend school.
A Maryland father and daughter's car karaoke series is melting hearts on TikTok, drawing millions of views on the social media platform. In the video series, 6-year-old Tatum is usually the one starting things off, belting out tunes while her dad Jhovan Galberth, 33, serves as her backup and videographer. Tatum said she loves singing in the car with her "beautiful dad."
John Stamos is hitting the road with The Beach Boys this summer. The "Full House" alum -- who has a longstanding relationship with the band -- will join The Beach Boys for a string of dates on their Endless Summer Gold 2024 tour, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of their album of the same name.
The health effects from extreme heat will soon take an even bigger toll on disadvantaged communities, according to a new report. As global temperatures continue to climb, a growing number of people living in disadvantaged communities will be impacted by health-threatening heatwaves, a report released Wednesday by the ICF Climate Center, an environmental research firm, found. As many as 54 million people in at-risk communities could be threatened by extreme heatwaves by 2050 under a high-emissions scenario, compared to 500,000 people today, according to the report.
The United States has assessed that Russia launched what is likely a counter space weapon last week that's now in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed Tuesday. "What I'm tracking here is on May 16, as you highlighted, Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we that we assess is likely a counter space weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit," Ryder said when questioned by ABC News about the information, which was made public earlier Tuesday by Robert Wood, deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The family of a U.S. national detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a failed coup attempt on Sunday said they were surprised to hear of his arrest in connection with the attack near the presidential palace in Kinshasa. Miranda Thompson told ABC News that her stepson Tyler Thompson, who grew up in West Jordan, Utah, traveled to South Africa last month on what he said would be a vacation with the family of his close friend Marcel Malanga. Thompson said that when she saw images of her stepson being detained and beaten by Congolese soldiers, she experienced "complete and utter shock."
Twenty passengers were being treated Wednesday in the intensive care units at two Bangkok hospitals after a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, hospital officials said. One person died on Tuesday as Singapore Airlines flight SQ 321 encountered "severe" turbulence, the airline said in a social media post on Tuesday. The Boeing 777-300ER departed London's Heathrow Airport on Monday with 221 passengers and 18 crew members on board, according to the airline.
ABC News reports that Vince Fong is projected to win the special general election in California’s 20th House district for the rest of the unexpired term. Fong will fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the former House speaker who was ousted from the position by a faction of his own party in Dec. 2023. Once Fong is sworn into Congress, Republicans will bolster their razor-thin majority in the House.