Category Archives: ABC News: Top Stories

Eight students dangling nearly 100 feet in the air after a roller coaster in Galveston, Texas, malfunctioned and became stuck were rescued. The operation took hours, but everyone is OK.

The top U.S. commander in Latin America has met with Cuban military leaders in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay

Five people were killed and 44 were injured in a massive crash between a bus and multiple vehicles on Interstate 95.

Karina and Jeff Besen, founders of "Not a Wedding Crasher," join ABC News to explain how their platform connects couples with strangers willing to attend weddings as invited guests.

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year

Retired NASA astronaut Susan Kilrain discusses what setbacks could result from the Blue Origin rocket explosion during a ground test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The judge ruled the Kennedy Center can't be officially named for anyone else unless Congress approves it.

A judge has ordered that a pregnant woman and her young son from Ghana cannot spend another night at a DC-area airport where they have been detained for more than a week.

The music streaming service rolled out its 2026 Songs of Summer predictions, listing 30 tunes from artists including Zara Larsson, Drake and Ella Langley that its editorial team named as contenders.

Anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change is causing the wine industry to change course.