Month: August 2018

Toyota(NEW YORK) — Where Toyota sees a minivan, Uber sees a driverless taxi. Now both companies are getting their vision. Toyota is investing $500 million in Uber, the companies announced Monday, moving the embattled ride-sharing [Read More…]

William Thomas Cain/Getty Images(PHOENIX) — The first of five days of memorials honoring the late Sen. John McCain started in his adopted home state of Arizona Wednesday, with his becoming the third person in 40 [Read More…]

Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are “in the room where it happens.” The newlyweds are attending a gala performance of the hit musical “Hamilton” Wednesday at London’s Victoria Palace [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(TOMAH, Wis.) — Track flooding has stalled two trains carrying 485 Amtrak passengers through Wisconsin, the railroad said Wednesday. The Empire Builder trains operating daily between Chicago, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle — one [Read More…]

Orange County Fire Rescue(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Two construction workers were killed in Florida early Wednesday when scaffolding they were working on collapsed and they plunged six stories. The accident happened at a hotel under construction [Read More…]

WABC(NEW YORK) — For the second time in less than a week, police believe they have found human body parts in garbage bags in a New York City park. The second set of remains was [Read More…]

ABC News(HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky.) — The Kentucky woman whose trial garnered national attention three years ago was convicted of murder for the second time on Tuesday in a retrial over her ex-boyfriend’s brutal death. Shayna [Read More…]

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (SUMNER, Texas) — Federal authorities detained well over 100 undocumented workers on Tuesday in a surprise raid at a Texas manufacturing company. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 160 [Read More…]

Zach Gibson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — American military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is dependent on that coalition avoiding civilian casualties, Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters. His comments followed the release of a United [Read More…]

KTMF(SEATTLE) — A family exploring Yellowstone National Park was able to save their 10-year-old son from a grizzly bear using bear spray they had rented from a kiosk nearby, according to reports. Sally Vering, the [Read More…]

Department Of Justice(NEW YORK) — Two Russians who ran illegal high-stakes poker games near Coney Island and at one point ordered a building that housed a rival’s poker game be set on fire are now [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN FRANCISCO) — Authorities in San Francisco made a gruesome discovery while searching the home of a man who has been missing since the start of summer. On Aug. 17, investigators found a headless torso [Read More…]