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Money earned from raw materials can be a curse rather than a blessing. It helps autocratic regimes stay in power, ignore their people and leads to frequent wars. But there are exceptions.

Palestinian medics rush to the site of an Israeli strike on al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 22, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Israel launched a retaliatory strike against Iran early Friday morning local time, a senior U.S. official told ABC News.The strike followed Irans attack on Saturday, when Tehran sent a volley of more than 300 drones and missiles toward targets in Israel, according to Israeli mi...

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it would take up the issue of "ghost guns" next term and the Biden administrations appeal seeking to regulate the self-assemble weapons kits as any other firearm.The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2022 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that determined the sale of weapons kits requires a background check and serialization of the parts for law enforcement tracking.Pre...

ABC News Medical Correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton walks through Rock Creek National Park in Washington, D.C. with Walk with a Doc board member Chaun Hightower. (Paul Dougherty/ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- A community health initiative that partnered with the National Park Service has doctors writing a "prescription" for wellness by getting more people outdoors."When I look across our medical system and the ability of doctors to use all the tools that they can — our parks prescription p...

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A24Civil War held on to the top spot at the domestic box office, despite some tough competition from the horror film Abigail. Civil War earned an estimated $11.1 million, bringing its two-week domestic tally to $44.9 million. The film has snagged $61.7 million globally.Breathing down Civil Wars neck was the aforementioned Abigail, with an estimated $10.2 million in North America for a second place finish. A24s reimagining of the 1936 film Draculas Daughter, starring Alisha Weir, added an es...

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a series of foreign aid bills that include $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26.38 billion in aid to Israel, $8 billion in aid to the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan, and a foreign aid bill that includes a TikTok ban provision.The four bills will now be sent to the Senate as a package. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday that the Senate will take up the bills on Tuesday afternoon.An am...

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK(GREENBELT, Md.) -- Five teenagers were injured after gunfire rang out at a large gathering of high school students taking part in a senior skip day in Maryland, police said.Officers from several law enforcement agencies were responding to help control a crowd of 500 to 600 students who had gathered in Schrom Hills Park in Greenbelt Friday afternoon when they heard multiple shots ring out, according to Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers.Five male victims rangin...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Total Reality, the third full-length album by Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice.Total Reality finds the sometimes-solo project of Dougal Shaw in full collective form. The five-piece live band and an assortment of guests join the Doctor in the studio to examine the impacts of recurring crises on the human psyche. An enduring optimistic lense over a

ABC NewsCorporate America took notice four years ago when Larry Fink, CEO of investment giant BlackRock, declared climate change a top concern. “Climate risk is investment risk,” Fink wrote in an annual letter popular in C-suites.His latest letter, released last month, spans well over 100 paragraphs before the first mention of “climate.” Whereas Fink mentioned “climate” a total of 29 times in the 2020 letter, he wrote it just four times in the missive last month.The shift in Fink’s...