Month: June 2018

Royal Observatory Greenwich AMAT(LONDON) — After a 60-year hiatus, astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London are studying the sky again. The observatory, which is home to the Prime Meridian of the World and [Read More…]

Bobbie DeHerrera/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested the Pentagon house migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at two Texas military bases: Fort Bliss in El Paso and Goodfellow Air Force Base [Read More…]

Chesnot/Getty Images(PARIS) — Seven new works attributed to provocative street artist Banksy have been discovered in recent days in Paris, including one near a former center for migrants at the city’s northern edge, according to [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Harley Davidson has announced it will move production of motorcycles bound for Europe out of the United States to avoid retaliatory European Union tariffs. In a regulatory filing with the [Read More…]

Justin Merriman/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — An African-American teenager killed by police while fleeing a traffic stop was laid to rest in Pennsylvania on Monday. Antwon Rose, 17, was shot dead by an East Pittsburgh police officer [Read More…]

Alaska State Troopers (ANCHORAGE, AK) — A deaf hiker who fell down a snowy Alaskan mountain last week found an unlikely rescuer and friend. Amelia Milling, 21, was four miles into her hike through the [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(HOWELL, Mich) — A hot air balloon pilot will live to fly another day after surviving a terrifying crash. At about 8 a.m. Sunday during the Michigan Challenge Balloonfest in Howell, Michigan, the hot air [Read More…]

Mustafa Kirazli/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated a sweeping re-election victory after a hard-fought campaign that proved to be his most challenging political battle after nearly 15 years in power. Erdogan [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(BROWNSVILLE, TX) — Authorities in Texas are searching for a 15-year-old boy who walked away from the nation’s largest children’s immigration center, police said Monday. Det. J.J. Trevino of the Brownsville Police Department [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of Brendan Dassey, whose murder conviction was the subject of the Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” ABC News has reached out [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(SAN FRANCISCO) — A San Francisco mom says she was “shocked” when her neighbor threatened to call the police on her 8-year-old daughter for selling bottled water without a permit over the weekend. The story [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — At least 52 wildfires are burning throughout the United States, mostly out West, including Alaska. Very hot, very dry conditions have ignited dozens of fires from Texas to Oregon to California, forcing [Read More…]