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 ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, considered by many political observers to be the most politically active and influential ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba -- People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed. The rumble of large ...

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the U.S. National Hurricane ...

At first light on Wednesday, the coastal communities of southwestern Jamaica bore the devastation of being in the direct path of Hurricane Melissa.

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.

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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 ...