ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|16:08
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, the journalist who champions human rights around the world, wants the government to stop giving welfare checks to poverty-stricken children with disabilities. It’s a stance that inspired solidarity with conservatives and fiery criticism from liberals, not Kristof’s usual reception.......
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|16:06
Software mogul John McAfee has been released from detention in Guatemala City and is waiting to board a flight to the U.S. McAfee told ABC News he would be on a 3:40 p.m. flight to Miami. "I haven't been in control of my own life for months," he said, "so who knows what will happen."...
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|15:51
The manhunt for the brazen hit man who executed Los Angeles man Brandon Lincoln Woodard in broad daylight on the edge of Central Park broadened today as NYPD detectives arrived in Los Angeles where they began drilling down into the victim's associates, business interests and background in an effort to develop clues as to the killer and his possible motives....
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|15:38
Chris Christie, New Jersey's bombastic governor, found himself at the center of two of this year's biggest news stories, and in the literal eye of the storm when headlines about the presidential election and superstorm Sandy collided. ...
Read more: Christie One of Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|15:33
Software founder McAfee released in Guatemala, headed to airport for US flight...
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|15:14
When Hillary Rodham Clinton steps down from her post as secretary of state as expected early next year her political career will have spanned over two decades. ABC's Barbara Walters sat down with the secretary to discuss just what makes the secretary so fascinating to so many people around the world, and what the cultural and political icon finds fascinating herself....
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|15:07
In an escalation of the conflict in Syria, the United States has determined that on Monday the Syrian military launched Scud missiles at rebel-held target areas in the northern part of the country. A U.S. official tells ABC News that on Monday Syrian military units......
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|14:56
The SARS-like coronavirus that made headlines earlier this year has some important -- and possibly dangerous -- differences, researchers said....
Today's Top Photos From Around the Globe
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|14:29
On Jan. 27, the world will finally see footage of an animal that’s captured people’s imaginations for centuries, but which has been seen alive only once, and never previously captured on film – the giant squid. The Discovery Channel, along with Japanese partner NHK, will......
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|14:06
As North Korea successfully launched its three-stage rocket into space today, the news met the public across the small country via a report by an excited, but unknown anchor — one that the only top brass in the country, likely including Kim Jung Un, know......
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|13:34
NYC police commissioner: Getaway car found in execution-style slaying of Calif. man in NY...
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|13:04
Facebook has finally improved the design and structure of its privacy settings, making them easier to use and locate....
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|13:03
Ex-first daughter Jenna Bush Hager says she's pregnant with first child; baby is due in spring...
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|12:55
Drug smugglers continue to show creativity in inventing new ways of getting drugs across the U.S. border from Mexico. Border Patrol agents say they believe a pneumatic cannon was used to launch dozens of containers of marijuana over the border and 500 feet into Arizona on Friday. Eighty-five pounds of marijuana -- tucked into soup cans and then inserted into larger sealed containers -- were found in a field near the Colorado River in San Luis, Arizona. ...
Read more: Drug Smugglers Shoot Drugs Across Border with Cannon
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|12:55
A 4-year-old boy in Houston accidently shot himself in the head and a 5-year-old girl in Philadelphia shot herself in the foot after both children got a hold of their parents' guns Tuesday night while playing at home....
ABC News: Top Stories
Dec 12
|12:53
Serena Williams declined to comment on her friend and fellow tennis player Caroline Wozniacki’s recent impersonation of her, which involved padding her shorts and top, but others are chiming in and calling the prank racist. The 22-year-old Danish tennis player has been getting some heat......
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