Month: May 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK CITY) — Students from nearly 300 schools across the country were expected to walk out in a different kind of protest Wednesday. Rather than calling for gun control reforms, Wednesday’s efforts were meant [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(HAVANA) — The U.S. military announced Wednesday it has transferred the first detainee out of Guantanamo Bay prison during the Trump administration. Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, who pleaded guilty to participating in a 2002 al-Qaeda [Read More…]

MGM Resorts(LAS VEGAS) — Six months after the worst mass shooting in American history, the public today is seeing the first video footage from the hotel suite that allowed the killer to rain down hellfire [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A data firm at the heart of Facebook’s ongoing user privacy controversy announced Wednesday that it was shutting its doors and filing for bankruptcy. Cambridge Analytica, the U.K.-based data mining firm Facebook accuses [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A BBC investigation has found that YouTube stars are being paid to advertise academic cheating, with more than 250 channels promoting a Ukraine-based site that allows students to buy essays. The site, EduBirdie, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) —  Five female paramedics with the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming that they were sexually harassed by members of the Fire Department, including superiors. The 57-page suit, filed by [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(FRISCO, Texas) — Texas law enforcement officials said they have foiled an alleged ISIS-inspired attack on a north Texas mall with the arrest of a teenager whom authorities said tried to recruit others to join [Read More…]

Mathew Imaging/Contributor/FilmMagic for Academy of Television Arts and Sciences(NEW YORK CITY) — A New York woman has claimed that former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw gave her an unwanted “French kiss” some 50 years ago. [Read More…]

Animal Legal Defense Fund(PORTLAND, Ore.) — A horse in Oregon is suing his former owner for neglect. According to the caretakers for Justice, the horse, former owner Gwendolyn Vercher left the stallion outside during the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) — A Southwest Airlines plane was diverted Wednesday after a crack was reported in one of its windows, the airline confirmed to ABC News. Southwest Flight 957, scheduled to fly from Chicago, Illinois, to [Read More…]

Twitter/@muntazer_zaidi(BAGHDAD) —  The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during an infamous 2008 news conference is running for parliament in Iraq. Muntadhar al-Zaidi gained fame when he hurled his shoes [Read More…]

KABC(BAKERSFIELD, Ore.) — A registered sex offender remains at large but his two young children and the family dog that he absconded with were found safe, following a nearly four-hour long pursuit of the man’s [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARKLAND, Fla.) — The brother of the young man accused of killing 17 people at a high school in South Florida has been arrested for the second time. A Broward County judge issued an out-of-county [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN YSIDRO, Mexico) — At least 25 Central Americans traveling north to the U.S. border with the so-called migrant caravan had passed into the San Ysidro Port of Entry as of this morning, organizers said. [Read More…]

ABC News(SAVANNAH, Ga.) — At least five people are dead after a C-130 “Hercules” plane belonging to the Puerto Rico National Guard crashed outside the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia at 11:28 a.m., according [Read More…]