Jim Avila served as an ABC News senior correspondent and a 20/20 correspondent based in Los Angeles, specializing in politics, justice, law and consumer investigations.

A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama ...

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President Donald Trump has said he believes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s days are numbered, and that land strikes inside Venezuela are possible. Experts say that the US doesn’t currently have ...

A Christian missionary father and his daughter were killed when a small plane bound for a hurricane relief mission in Jamaica ...

A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential ...

The best defense is offense, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Thursday as he outlined the purpose of the American military ...

President Donald Trump says his $300 million White House ballroom will be paid for “100% by me and some friends of mine.” The White House released a list of 37 donors, including ...

Over the weekend, senior members of the Trump administration tempered expectations set by the president himself, who had ...

Jim Avila, an award-winning journalist who was a senior correspondent for ABC News and worked at the news outlet for 17 years ...