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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(WRANGELL, Alaska) -- Alaska state officials have released the identities of the victims of a landslide that left three people dead and another three missing. The landslide occurred shortly before 9 p.m. local time Monday near Wrangell, a city in the Alaska Panhandle, along the Zimovia Highway at mile 11, officials said. Three homes were determined to be directly in the path of the landslide -- two houses on the mountainside and one on the waterside of the highway -- ac...

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden said the two-dozen hostages freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday is "only a start," with more hostages expected to be released soon -- with hopes that some of the missing Americans are among them. Early Friday, 24 hostages were freed by Hamas as part of a temporary truce with Israel after the militant groups surprise terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israels retaliatory strikes in Gaza. More than 1,20...

@gilbert_sabinga/Save the Elephants(LONDON) -- An elephant in Kenya has given birth to a rare set of twins, conservation group Save the Elephants has announced. The two baby elephant calves – both female - were born to a mother elephant named Alto in Kenyas Samburu National Reserve. "Yet another set of twins have been born in Samburu National Reserve," Save the Elephants announced in an Instagram post. "Alto from the Clouds has astonished us with her own set of twins. Her two ad...

Nathan Howard/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchins announcement earlier this month that he wont seek reelection tilted next years Senate map even further away from Democrats narrow majority, political analysts say -- and underscored how such a victory hinges on Trump country. Manchins seat is one of three that his party is defending in states that Donald Trump won over Joe Biden in 2020. By declaring his retirement, the long-serving moderate West Virginian, who had con...

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The husband and wife occupants of the car that slammed into the U.S.-Canada border crossing in a fiery explosion on the Rainbow Bridge Wednesday have now been identified. Kurt P. Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both of Grand Island, New York, were killed in the crash, the Niagara Falls Police Department said Friday. Both were 53 years old. "The incident is currently under investigation by the NFPD Crash Management Unit, no further details are ava...

Pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Heres how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Nov 24, 5:02 PM EST Israel gets new list of hostages to be released Saturday A new list of hostages to be rel...

ESPN Images/Joe FaraoniLike many people on Thanksgiving, Taye Diggs is looking to eat well and drink plenty. He told ABC Audio about his plans to spend the holiday with loved ones, specifically his sisters, whove mastered making the familys famous punch.  "Its amazing," he said of the heirloom drink.  The special concoction was originally mixed together by his late mother, who passed it down to the girls.    And although hed love to know how to make the punch himself, almost...

Mbbirdy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two people were killed when a vehicle exploded Friday on the U.S. side of the Rainbow Bridge, which connects the U.S. to Canada at Niagara Falls, New York, according to sources. The Rainbow Bridge has closed in the wake of the incident. The vehicle, believed to be a Mercedes, sped toward a border checkpoint at the U.S. side of the bridge and hit a concrete barrier, multiple sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News. The impact sent the vehicle careenin...

Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hudner shot down several attack drones over the Red Sea that were launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen early Thursday morning local time, according to U.S. Central Command. "The ship and crew sustained no damage or injury," a statement from the command read. Just one week earlier, Navy officials announced the same ship shot down another drone originating in Yemen that was heading in the direction of the s...

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A record number of people are expected to travel during the upcoming holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving -- just as respiratory illnesses are rising around most of the United States. Currently, kids under 5 years old are being hospitalized with respiratory illnesses at a higher rate than any other age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the most common types of respiratory viruses that circulates this ti...