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Authorities in Bexar County, Texas, reported Tuesday that a body was discovered close to the residence of 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos, who disappeared on Christmas Eve. The remains were located shortly before 5 p.m. local time in a field roughly 100 yards from the family home in northwest Bexar County. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suspended all federal child care payments to Minnesota following allegations that some Minneapolis day care centers defrauded public assistance programs, an agency official announced Tuesday. Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neill said on social media that the suspension is effective immediately and applies to money distributed […]
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna is organizing a bipartisan investigation into state government fraud in response to backlash over his recent support for a proposed wealth tax targeting California billionaires. The Silicon Valley Democrat said the initiative, to be launched from his position on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, aims to ensure any new […]
New York – Grindr Inc. appeared on the most recent edition of the Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers report, a daily survey that tracks the largest insider transactions across U.S.-listed companies. The ranking identifies the five corporations with the highest dollar value of insider purchases and the five with the largest insider sales for the […]
Body-camera footage released by ABC News Live shows police officers in Ohio removing a man from a burning vehicle in a rapid, high-stakes rescue carried out on December 30, 2025. The clip, which runs approximately 13 seconds, captures the critical moments in which the officers reach the car, extract the occupant and move him away from the flames. […]
A video capturing firefighters saving a dog on Christmas Day is circulating widely across social media, placing the dramatic rescue at the center of ABC News Live’s year-end programming schedule. The clip, posted during the holiday weekend, quickly drew a large online audience and has become the most talked-about segment in the streaming channel’s current […]
Asia-Pacific equity benchmarks eased on the final, holiday-shortened trading day of the year, as market participants balanced a modest improvement in Chinese factory activity against broader concerns about global growth and technology earnings. The region’s largest moves came in Greater China. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index declined 0.87% to 25,630.54, while the mainland CSI 300 […]
U.S. stocks slipped on Monday during a session characterized by unusually light trading activity, extending a three-day streak of below-average volume that is typical for December. Major indexes pulled back to short-term technical support levels, while the commodities market saw pronounced volatility after silver futures set a new intraday record before quickly losing ground. The […]
A fire department in California is marking what officials there are calling an unexpected “baby boom,” after a notable number of its firefighters became parents within a short period. Although exact figures were not released, department administrators confirmed that multiple crew members have welcomed newborns in recent months, turning routine station chatter from response times […]
New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs faces criminal counts of strangulation and assault stemming from an incident earlier this month, according to court documents filed in Massachusetts. The accusations were entered into the public record on Dec. 30, outlining claims by a woman who says she worked as Diggs’ private chef. The complainant told […]
China’s manufacturing sector returned to growth in December, ending an eight-month stretch of contraction, according to official data released Wednesday. The headline manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) registered 50.1, surpassing both the 49.2 reading in November and the 49.2 median forecast from economists surveyed by Reuters. A PMI above 50 points to an expansion in […]
The United States continues to dominate global pharmaceutical and biotechnology drug development, underpinned by record levels of research and development (R&D) investment and a steady flow of regulatory approvals. Data for 2023 and 2024 show that U.S. companies committed more than $104 billion to R&D in 2024 alone, accounting for 55 percent of worldwide biopharmaceutical […]