TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Two months after appointing Wonder Woman as its Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, the United Nations is cutting ties with the female superhero, according to multiple reports. “The Wonder Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The captain of a doomed container ship declined to reverse course despite receiving three phone calls warning him the vessel was headed into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, transcripts of a voyage data recorder recovered from the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a Yemeni man who claims he lost members of his family in a U.S. drone strike, was set to attend a U.S. appellate court hearing Tuesday regarding the alleged incident in what could become a landmark case. Jaber, Read More
Lance Cpl. Jake McClung/US Marines(OKINAWA, Japan) — Five Marines aboard an MV-22 Osprey have been have rescued after the tilt-rotor aircraft went down in waters off of Okinawa on Monday night, local time, military officials said. The rescued Marines have been Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Syrian government forces have reportedly entered civilian homes and killed people inside “on the spot” in eastern Aleppo, the U.N. Human Rights Office said Tuesday. At least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, Read More
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A simmering dispute between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. intelligence community erupted into an ugly, public spat over the weekend following reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times that the CIA Read More
Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The emergence of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as a likely candidate for secretary of state is drawing scrutiny to the corporate executive’s dealings with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. ABC News confirmed that Read More
GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images(ALEPPO, Syria) — In Syria, east Aleppo is on the brink of falling. The Syrian government has taken control of at least 97 percent of east Aleppo after intense bombardments overnight and on Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced this weekend that 200 additional American special operations troops will be heading to Syria to help Kurdish and Arab rebel forces retake Raqqa, ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria. The Read More
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — The Kremlin is denying reports from the CIA that it used hacking to interfere with the 2016 election to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidency. Dmitry Peskov, press secretary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Read More
