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Getty Images – STOCK (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. The only survivor was the 10-year-old son who was asleep during the shootings, Oklahoma City police said. The 10-year-old called 911 Monday morning […]

(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — Nine more couples are suing an in vitro fertilization provider saying it destroyed their embryos, but still implanted the nonviable embryos despite knowing they were not viable. In a joint lawsuit filed Tuesday, the couples allege that workers at Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach, California, exposed the embryos to lethal amounts […]

(NEW YORK) — Pua Lay Peng lives on the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis. The 52-year-old’s hometown of Jenjarom, Malaysia has been transformed in recent years by thousands of tons of imported plastic waste from the U.S. and other wealthy nations. As a result, the once quiet agricultural town she grew up […]

(NEW YORK) — This Earth Day, ABC News is taking a look at solutions for issues related to climate change and the environment with the series, “The Power of Us: People, The Climate, and Our Future.” A critical tree species found in some of America’s most revered national parks is in decline, leading researchers to […]

(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Secret Service held meetings and started planning for what to do if former President Donald Trump were to be held in contempt in his criminal hush money trial and Judge Juan Merchan opted to send him to short-term confinement, officials familiar with the situation told ABC News. Merchan on Tuesday […]

(NEW YORK) — Day 6 of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial featured testimony from David Pecker, the veteran tabloid editor, who described in detail the “catch-and-kill” arrangement he struck with Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential election. The former president is on trial in New York on felony charges […]

(NEW YORK) — Protests calling for the divestment of college and university funds from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on campuses across the country, including Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and more. The student protests — some of which have turned into around-the-clock encampments and […]