Explore abc11.com Stories

Recent "National/World" Stories, Video and Galleries

  • Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town's parade. Investigators were looking into whether the motorist had suffered a medical emergency before the accident.
Tags:
national/world
  • The single winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell
Tags:
lottery, powerball, mega millions, national/world
  • An emergency official says about 50 to 60 people were injured after car drove into a group of hikers at a parade in a small Virginia town
Tags:
national/world
  • Authorities in hazardous materials suits are searching an apartment in downtown Spokane, Wash., as they investigate the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin
Tags:
national/world
  • Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries
Tags:
national/world
  • no powerball winner
  • The jackpot for tonight's Powerball drawing is nearing historic territory once again
Tags:
lottery, powerball, mega millions, national/world
  • North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.
Tags:
national/world
  • Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.
Tags:
national/world
  • Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog.
Tags:
national/world
  • Ken Venturi
  • On Friday, we learned of the passing of golfing great Ken Venturi. Look back at others who have left us this year
Tags:
hollywood, national/world
  • The lawyer who defended O.J. Simpson on armed robbery charges delivered a potentially heavy blow to the former football star's bid for a new trial Friday, testifying that Simpson knew his buddies had guns on them when he went to a hotel room to reclaim some sports memorabilia
Tags:
national/world
  • A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the suspect, Albuquerque police said Thursday
Tags:
national/world
  • Bombs struck Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months, officials said, as a spike in violence has raised fears the country could be on the path to a new round of sectarian bloodshed
Tags:
national/world
  • The Powerball jackpot has hit $600 million - a record for a Powerball drawing. Watch live on Channel 7 on Saturday night at 11!
Tags:
lottery, powerball, mega millions, national/world
  • An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack
Tags:
national/world
  • She is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom where federal prosecutors are asking she be sentenced to 27 years in prison for crimes they deem cruel, despicable and heinous.
Tags:
national/world
  • The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally
Tags:
national/world
  • Bombs exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 13 people, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government led by Nawaz Sharif set to take power
Tags:
national/world
  • A security official in northeast Nigeria says soldiers have shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists fighting in the region, killing at least 21 people
Tags:
national/world
  • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
Tags:
national/world
  • So you didn't win Wednesday's $360 million Powerball jackpot? Make that you and everyone else.
Tags:
iowa, national/world
  • A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said
Tags:
national/world
  • Members of a bipartisan House group working on a comprehensive immigration bill say they have an agreement in principal. The lawmakers did not provide details as they left a two-hour meeting Thursday evening, but said they would be working on drafting the measure
Tags:
national/world
  • The government of Congo says more than 20 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province. That's in the far eastern part of the country
Tags:
national/world
  • President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups
Tags:
national/world
  • First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities -- toilet paper
Tags:
national/world
  •  Caleb Lawrence McGillvary also known as Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
  • New Jersey authorities have named Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker," as a suspect in a homicide.
Tags:
new jersey, murder, homicide, national/world
  • The Justice Department failed to provide the names of some terrorists in the witness protection program to the center that maintains the government's watch list used to keep dangerous people off airline flights, the department's inspector general said in a report Thursday
Tags:
national/world
  • Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins
Tags:
national/world
  • A central Pennsylvania woman will spend 60 days to two years in jail for hog-tying her 5-year-old grandson to a chair so she could go to a methadone clinic
Tags:
pennsylvania, national/world
  • A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, officials said.
Tags:
afghanistan, national/world
  • An Australian politician taking his morning jog through the national capital came out second best Thursday after crossing a kangaroo
Tags:
national/world
  • Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than 1 million people.
Tags:
national/world
  • A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese tourists, survived with injuries, police said
Tags:
national/world
  • Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 30, officials said
Tags:
iraq, national/world
  • The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry
Tags:
national/world
  • The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded in New Orleans was taken into custody Wednesday night, police said
Tags:
national/world
  • A police bomb squad detonated 17 homemade explosive devices found in an apartment on Wednesday after officers spotted an explosive liquid in a man's car during a routine traffic stop, authorities said
Tags:
national/world
  • A 14-month-old baby girl is hospitalized after a stroller overturned onto SEPTA tracks in West Philadelphia, officials say.
Tags:
national/world
  • President Barack Obama says the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has submitted his resignation in the aftermath of an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups
Tags:
national/world
  • The White House is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration's response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, last September
Tags:
national/world
  • Jurors in Jodi Arias' trial on Wednesday found the former waitress should be eligible for the death penalty after they convicted her last week of murdering her one-time boyfriend
Tags:
arizona, national/world
  • Forecasters say the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season has formed off the coast of Mexico
Tags:
national/world
  • You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut
Tags:
national/world
  • A group of 20 Florida high school seniors won't soon forget the limo ride to their prom at a beach-side hotel
Tags:
national/world
  • OJ Simpson in court
  • More than four years after the world last heard from O.J. Simpson in court, one of the nation's most famous prisoners spoke again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies.
Tags:
las vegas, national/world
  • As the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups widens, House Speaker John Boehner says he has a question: 'Who's going to jail over this scandal?'
Tags:
national/world
  • A Philadelphia abortion doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could 'walk to the bus'
Tags:
national/world
  • A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast
Tags:
oregon, national/world
  • The attorneys for a Cleveland man accused of keeping three women in captivity for about a decade say he will plead not guilty
Tags:
ohio, national/world