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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Pua Lay Peng lives on the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis. The 52-year-old’s hometown of Jenjarom, Malaysia has been transformed in recent years by thousands of tons of imported plastic waste from the U.S. and other wealthy nations. As a result, the …

Grand Teton National Park and NRCC (NEW YORK) — This Earth Day, ABC News is taking a look at solutions for issues related to climate change and the environment with the series, “The Power of Us: People, The Climate, and Our Future.” A critical tree species found in some of …

Kelli with an Eye Photography (NEW YORK) — A Colorado man has completed a four-month rowing journey that saw him travel from Hawaii to Australia alone. Tez Steinberg of Boulder arrived on the shores of Australia on Monday after taking off from Hawaii on Dec. 19, 2023. Steinberg, 36, was …

Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Secret Service held meetings and started planning for what to do if former President Donald Trump were to be held in contempt in his criminal hush money trial and Judge Juan Merchan opted to send him to short-term confinement, officials familiar with …

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Day 6 of former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial featured testimony from David Pecker, the veteran tabloid editor, who described in detail the “catch-and-kill” arrangement he struck with Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential election. The former president is …

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — Nine more couples are suing an in vitro fertilization provider saying it destroyed their embryos, but still implanted the nonviable embryos despite knowing they were not viable. In a joint lawsuit filed Tuesday, the couples allege that workers at Ovation Fertility in Newport …

Getty Images – STOCK (WEST RICHLAND, Wash.) — A former police officer is on the run after allegedly killing his ex-wife and girlfriend and abducting a 1-year-old child in Washington state, according to authorities. Elias Huizar allegedly killed a woman outside Wiley Elementary School on Monday afternoon, according to West …

Getty Images – STOCK (TETON COUNTY, Wyo.) — This Earth Day, ABC News is taking a look at solutions for issues related to climate change and the environment with the series, “The Power of Us: People, The Climate, and Our Future.” A critical tree species found in some of America’s …

WXYZ (NEWPORT, Mich.) — A woman is facing second-degree murder charges after she allegedly drove into a child’s birthday party in Michigan, killing two children and injuring several others, officials said. Marshella Chidester, 66, allegedly struck a building at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Newport Saturday afternoon, and her …

Getty Images – STOCK (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies …