Matt Stone/Boston Herald via MediaNews Group via Getty Images, FILE(LOS ANGELES) -- When Los Angeles Police Department officers went racing toward a potential kidnapping call downtown this week, callers indicated a true kidnapping was underway, according to...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With the Fourth of July just days away, law enforcement and federal officials are on guard about Iranian retaliation in the United States, despite officials saying there are no specific, credible threats at this time.This comes...

An American Airlines plane. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- An American Airlines flight returned safely to Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport shortly after takeoff due to a "mechanical issue" on Wednesday morning, the airline said.The...

An American Airlines plane. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- An American Airlines flight returned safely to Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport following an "engine issue" on Wednesday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration...

Frisco Police Department(FRISCO, Texas) -- A Texas grand jury has indicted a teenager for first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of another teen at a track meet, in a case prosecutors said has "shaken" the community.The deadly stabbing occurred at a Frisco...

Kena Betancur/VIEWpress(ASBURY PARK, N.J.) -- A lifeguard is in the hospital after she was impaled by an umbrella at a New Jersey beach on Wednesday morning, officials said.The woman was found on the ground near the lifeguard stand with an umbrella stake that had...

David McNew/Getty Images(LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C.) -- Twenty people were injured by a reported lightning strike while swimming at a beach in South Carolina, officials said.The incident occurred at approximately 5 p.m. on Tuesday, when multiple agencies responded to a...

Angela Weiss - Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Emil Bove, President Donald Trump's former defense attorney who took aggressive steps to enforce Trump's political agenda at the Justice Department in the early months of his presidency, told the Senate Judiciary...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The first major heat wave of the summer will bring another day of dangerously high temperatures to the East Coast on Wednesday before relief moves in.The oppressive heat shattered records across the Northeast on Tuesday. New York City and...

Angela Palermo/Idaho Statesman via TNS via Getty Images(MOSCOW, Idaho) -- The woman who said she will offer key eyewitness testimony in Bryan Kohberger's upcoming capital murder trial repeated that claim at least four times, to three different officers, after she was...

A protester holds a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia/Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is back in the U.S. after being mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, is set to appear in court in Tennessee on Wednesday for a hearing...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(Merritt Island, Fla.) -- After several postponed launches, Axiom Space's four private astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station (ISS).The multinational crew lifted off successfully aboard a SpaceX Dragon launched by...

David McNew/Getty Images(PALM SPRINGS, Calif.) -- The man charged earlier this month with conspiring to assist the suspected California fertility clinic bomber has died in federal custody, according to a statement from the Bureau of Prisons.Daniel Park was found...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A life-threatening heat wave has enveloped the East Coast, hitting cities with the worst of the high temperatures on Tuesday before relief moves in later in the week.This is the first major heat wave of the season, with extreme heat warnings and...

Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) -- Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to...

Kevin Carter/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The FBI is planning to reallocate potentially thousands of agents away from immigration enforcement to focus on cyber threats and counterterrorism efforts, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Tuesday.The shift in...

A man in Washington state was rescued after falling from a tree and spending four to five days in the woods, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. Kitsap County Sheriff's Office(POULSBO, Wash.) -- A Washington state man who was "stuck in the woods for days"...

onurdongel/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Fourth of July holiday is fast approaching -- and it's going to be a busy one.A record high of 72.2 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home over the July Fourth holiday period (from June 28 to July 6),...

John Lamparski/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Marshals in Florida have led a missing child operation this month that “resulted in the recovery or safe location of 60 critically missing children,” across the state, officials said.The U.S. Marshals Service Middle...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- A decade of planning and complex deception tactics made last weekend's historic B-2 bomber strike on Iran possible, according to retired Gen. Robert Spalding, who said he helped develop the original mission plans.The operation, named "Operation...