Month: June 2018

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The NYPD officer who tackled former tennis star James Blake outside a Midtown hotel in September 2015 was docked five vacation days as punishment. Blake’s lawyer Kevin Marino called it “woefully [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(JUBALAND, Somalia) — An American service member was killed in Somalia Friday and four others were wounded in a firefight with Al Shabab fighters, according to U.S. Africa Command (Africom). “During an operation June 8, [Read More…]

ABC News(CHICAGO) — The Chicago man whom police killed Wednesday was shot in the back, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. The shooting had already become the subject of a police oversight agency probe [Read More…]

Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images(MADRID) — The King of Spain, Felipe VI, swore in the new government of the 46-year-old prime minister, Pedro Sanchez — including a majority of women. The government of the self-proclaimed feminist [Read More…]

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(KAYSERSBERG, France) — Award-winning chef, writer and television personality Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide. He was 61. Bourdain was found dead on Friday morning in his room at a luxury [Read More…]

ABC News(HACKENSACK, N.J.) — A New Jersey man who heeded his wife’s instructions to return a bottle of orange juice is now a multi-millionaire after he bought the winning ticket for the $315.3 million Powerball [Read More…]

ABC News(LONG ISLAND, N.Y.) — Three people believed to be teenagers were ejected and killed when the stolen SUV they were traveling in overturned and crashed on Long Island on Friday, police said. The driver [Read More…]

ABC News(VATICAN CITY) — First was a one-of-a-kind Lamborghini. Now his own space suit. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, along with American Commander Randolph Bresnik, presented Pope Francis on Friday with his very own blue flight [Read More…]

ABC News(GUATEMALA CITY) — Guatemala has opened an investigation into possible negligence in the wake of Sunday’s volcanic eruption, as the death toll continues to climb. Guatemala’s attorney general and head of the Public Ministry, [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s call Friday for Russia to re-enter the G7 four years after the country was kicked out from the group of countries over its annexation of Crimea has resulted in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — A Massachusetts mother posted a now-viral photo online of a kindergarten classroom poster explaining lockdown procedures through a rhyme. Somerville resident Georgy Cohen, 38, was touring a kindergarten room before her 5-year-old daughter [Read More…]

@Bourdain/Twitter(NEW YORK) — The sudden death of renowned chef Anthony Bourdain is spurring reflection on the accomplishments that catapulted him to stardom. But aside from his successful books and TV shows, Bourdain recently gained attention [Read More…]