Month: June 2018

nirat/iStock/Thinkstock(MARSHFIELD, Mass.) — Tyler Soloman walked up to his graduation stage like the rest of the 336 fellow students to receive a diploma. But he got so much more. While handed the scrolled document, Marshfield [Read More…]

Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Kim Yong-chol, the former spy chief who met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York and President Donald Trump at the White House last week — and [Read More…]

omada/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Fiat Chrysler plans to offer 30 electric and hybrid vehicles by the year 2022, the company announced on Friday. The news comes from the company’s five-year plan, in which Fiat Chrysler says [Read More…]

PeterHermesFurian/iStock/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has caused almost half of all children between the ages of seven and 17 to miss out on schooling, the United Nations Children’s Fund says. The agency also [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — Nearly four months after a mass shooting killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the class of 2018 will graduate and posthumous diplomas will be presented to families [Read More…]

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Deafening chants of “We want Bobby!” filled the stifling Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles around midnight on June 5, 1968, as New York Sen. Robert [Read More…]

South Korean Presidential Blue House via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A former adviser to President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hasn’t yet met the U.S. leader he “better prepare for” that. Tom [Read More…]

ABC News (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Joaquin Oliver was one of the 17 students and faculty murdered on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a former student allegedly opened fire [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Already rain-soaked states in the mid-Atlantic are looking at another dose of downpours to end the weekend. Tropical moisture is working up from the South on Sunday and colliding with [Read More…]

KTRK(CLEVELAND, Texas) — Most toddlers are learning how to write or count. Thankfully, one Texas 3-year-old learned how to call 911. Dorothy Craig, of Cleveland, Texas, may very well have saved her mother’s life — [Read More…]

ABC News (SANFORD, Maine) — A woman in Maine has been charged with manslaughter after she hit a man while driving out of control onto a baseball field during a little league game Friday evening. [Read More…]

KMGH(DENVER) — An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron [Read More…]

Athens-Clarke County Police Department(ATHENS, Ga.) — The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has fired one of its officers after an investigation showed he intentionally ran down and hit a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser. Officer [Read More…]

haveseen/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Two climbers were killed while climbing on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park on Saturday, the National Park Service says. According to a press release, the pair fell while on the rock [Read More…]

andrew_t/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A small plane with four people on board crashed off the coast of New York’s Long Island on Saturday. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a Piper PA31 Navajo aircraft crashed about [Read More…]

ustino73/iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) — After months of political turmoil, Italy has a new populist government. Sworn in Friday, the next step for the new government is confidence votes in Parliament, which will be called early next week. [Read More…]

zorandimzr/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Visa says a “technical issue” that prevented some users in Europe from making payments with their credit or debit cards has been resolved. The outage was widespread, and impacted banks including the [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — In the past week, a Tesla sedan driving with Autopilot collided with a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle in California, authorities confirmed, stoking concerns about the semi-autonomous system, which [Read More…]