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Travis Wilson was simply signing up for housing when the homeless veteran heard a boom nearby and rushed to the aid of a bloodied victim in a serious car accident. Wilson, who told ABC affiliate WPLG he is a former Navy corpsman, was first on the scene at the accident […]

Swiss Re, one of the world’s biggest reinsurers, estimates that Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, plus two recent earthquakes in Mexico will cost the industry about $95 billion. The Zurich-based company, which as a reinsurer provides backup policies to companies that write primary insurance policies, says the claims process is […]

The U.S. government is urging the world airline community to ban large, personal electronic devices like laptops from checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a paper filed recently with a U.N. agency that its tests show that when a laptop’s […]

More than a dozen Charlotte-area students were forced to flee their school bus when the engine exploded and burst into flames on Thursday. Harrowing video shot minutes after the students escaped shows the entire front half of the bus completely engulfed in flames. After photos show little else but a […]

Authorities in Florida found a cache of guns and explosives inside a home during the course of a child pornography investigation Wednesday, officials said. Deputies from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office found a vast arsenal inside a locked closet in a home in Dunedin, including three explosive devices, 10 rifles, […]

Below are White House chief of staff John Kelly‘s full remarks at Oct. 19’s White House press briefing. Well, thanks a lot. And it is a more serious note. So I just wanted to perhaps make more of a statement than an — give more an explanation than a — […]

U.S. Africa Command has launched a formal investigation into the circumstances surrounding an ambush in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers and wounded two others. The investigation comes as the Pentagon said Thursday that the fourth soldier, Sgt. La David Johnson, was “separated” from his fellow soldiers but never left […]

Responding to growing revelations about the scale of the Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election over social media, a pair of Senate Democrats introduced a bill Thursday to force Facebook and other social media companies to disclose more details about political ads on their platforms. The proposal from […]

The flurry of activity surrounding the $25,000 check that President Donald Trump had promised the family of a fallen soldier is not the first time Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge’s death has drawn unwanted attention. After his June death in Afghanistan, the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, which regularly protests military funerals, […]

What happens in the Pacific Ocean with the phenomenon La Niña will likely cause temperature and precipitation changes across the country this winter, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The weak La Niña developing could be the biggest player in the 2017-2018 winter forecast, said Mike Halpert, deputy […]