THE TAKE with ABC News’ RICK KLEIN The Trump presidency is no longer defined by paralysis. However, this flurry of unilateral action does not mean President Trump can ride alone and expect to get results. This presidential phase may be one of disruptive action — with Trump blowing things up […]
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Ireland, UK brace for Ophelia; officials warn of ‘danger to life’
Storm Ophelia was beginning to pummel Ireland early Monday and is expected to hit Scotland and Northern Ireland, bringing “violent and destructive” wind gusting up to 90 mph as well as flooding due to heavy rain and storm surges. Forecasters said Ophelia is likely to be the most powerful storm […]
Alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl doubts he could get a fair trial after Trump comments
Former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in a military hearing that begins at Fort Bragg today as he doubts that he could get a fair trial following campaign statements by Donald Trump. Despite surviving five years in […]
Wildfires in Portugal, Spain kill at least 9 people
Wildfires in Portugal and Spain have killed nine people died over the weekend as hundreds of blazes were fanned by strong winds caused by a hurricane, authorities said Monday. Civil Protection authorities in Portugal said that six people died and at least 25 were injured, most of them firefighters, during […]
Minnesota father of 3 killed in Somalia terror attack
A Minnesota father of three was one of more than 270 people who were killed in Somalia over the weekend when a pair of truck bombs went off in the country’s capital, his family said. Authorities are calling it the deadliest terrorist attack in the nation’s history. The attack left […]
Boat carrying Rohingya Muslims capsizes, killing at least 12
An overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized Monday in the Bay of Bengal near a Bangladeshi fishing village, killing 12 people, including six children, police said. Survivors of the capsizing told local officials that up to 65 people were on board and almost half of them were children, […]
276 killed in deadliest single attack in Somalia’s history
The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country’s information minister said early Monday, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation. The toll was expected to rise. In a tweet, Abdirahman Osman called the […]
Ophelia to bring hurricane-force wind, heavy rain to Ireland
Irish authorities ordered all schools in the country to close Monday and warned cyclists and motorists to stay off roads as Hurricane Ophelia bore down on Ireland and the U.K. with potentially deadly winds. Ophelia weakened to a Category 1 hurricane Sunday as it moved north-northeast across the Atlantic, with […]
Oil rig explodes in Louisiana lake, injuries reported
A Louisiana police department says an oil rig has exploded in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish. The Times-Picayune reports that Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescue boats are being sent from the Kenner Boat Launch, and that officials with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s […]
Manhunt underway after 2 ‘dangerous’ prisoners escape from Missouri jail
A statewide manhunt is underway in Missouri after two prisoners, accused of violent crimes, escaped from jail just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, according to local authorities. The two escaped from the Pemiscot County Jail through an air duct, arrived at a room to leave and then set off an […]