ABC World News

ABC News (BATON ROUGE, La.) — It is just after 5 p.m. on a muggy, hot Louisiana evening and officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department and deputies from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s

BackyardProduction/iStock (NEW YORK) — A dozen drug manufacturers and distributors accused of fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic face a jury for the first time Tuesday during opening

Eisenlohr/iStock (NEW YORK) — Two wildfires are quickly growing in California amid dangerous conditions caused by megadrought and extreme temperatures. The Lava Fire in Siskiyou County in

ABC News (NEW YORK) — It’s a double heat wave day with dangerously high temperatures hitting the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. Washington state on Monday recorded two 118-degree

ABC News/KTRK-TV (HOUSTON) — A man has been arrested after allegedly cutting off the power to the home of his ex-wife and their four children before breaking in through a window and shooting

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — At least 11 people are dead and 150 others remain unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in

ABC News/WTVD-TV (RALEIGH, N.C.) — One child is dead and two others have been shot in two separate drive-by shootings that took place just blocks from each other. The first incident occurred

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — As first responders continue digging through what remains of the 12-story residential building that collapsed Thursday in Surfside, Florida, town

iStock/MattGush (NEW YORK) — Within 2 and 1/2 hours on Sunday, two people were killed and 17 were wounded in a pair of mass shootings in Chicago. A rash of shootings in Philadelphia since

iStock/MarianVejcik (SEATTLE) — Allan Apo’s home in Marysville — about 35 miles outside of Seattle — doesn’t have air conditioning, and the record-breaking heat wave