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Seven adults and five children were killed in a deadly fire that roared through a New York City apartment building Thursday evening, according to city officials. The ages of the victims range from 1 to 63, and at least one person on every floor was killed, officials said. One woman […]

Survivors of the New York City apartment building that was engulfed in flames Thursday night described their harrowing attempts to escape the blaze. The deadly fire was sparked by a 3-year-old boy who was playing with a stove on the first floor Thursday evening, city officials said. One resident, who […]

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The White House is planning a staff restructuring in the coming weeks that includes a reorganization of President Donald Trump’s political operation based in the West Wing, sources confirm to ABC News. The changes, spearheaded by Chief of Staff John Kelly, come amid staff frustrations with management of the Office […]

The widow of a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself following a sexual assault allegation has been nominated by Republicans to fill the seat he held. Bullitt County GOP Chairman Paul Ham said a vote was taken Thursday night to nominate Rebecca Johnson. Gov. Matt Bevin set a Feb. 20 special […]

Warning: Some images included in the story below are graphic. Disturbing photos showing a teen who was allegedly beaten by a police officer in Troy, Alabama, have his family calling for answers. At a news conference Friday morning, the mother of 17-year-old Ulysses Wilkerson demanded that those responsible be “held […]

President Donald Trump welcomed members of the U.S. Coast Guard to one of his Florida golf courses Friday. The president invited Coast Guard members to Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach to play and have lunch. He warmly greeted the roughly 60 members on a pristine green next […]

With two days remaining on the 2017 calendar, President Donald Trump is not only approaching the first anniversary of his inauguration, but the conclusion of a year in which he harnessed the power of social media and the internet unlike any chief executive before him. Trump’s eight-year-old Twitter account frequently […]

Congressional investigators say they are increasingly concerned about threats to the coming midterm election with multiple probes into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election still incomplete with no immediate end in sight. Among their top concerns, according to sources: Russia’s ability to further exploit and potentially influence American voters […]

President Donald Trump has been a skeptic of climate change for years — even making it a tenet of his 2016 presidential campaign — and he took to Twitter to poke fun at the science on Thursday night by saying global warming may not be such a bad thing. Trump […]