Month: August 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Statue of Liberty was evacuated Monday after an apparent construction mishap sparked a fire at Liberty Island, where the monument is located, according to the National Parks Service. Two or three [Read More…]

ABC News(TOKYO) — A decked-out Pokémon train just popped up in Japan. Banners hang from the ceiling of this train promoting a new Pokémon video game. From the landscape setting on the floor to the [Read More…]

ABC News(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Taylor Poindexter and Marquis Williams spent over four hours a day preparing for Sunday’s “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, but an “eternity” trying to escape with their lives after [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — In the midst of an already contentious visit to a country ripe with anger over neglected abuses within the Catholic church, Pope Francis declined to address the contents of a letter released [Read More…]

John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President George W. Bush has accepted an invitation to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. John McCain at the National Cathedral and is [Read More…]

John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President George W. Bush has accepted an invitation to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. John McCain at the National Cathedral and is [Read More…]

@CFDMedia/Twitter(CHICAGO) — Eight children were killed after a fire sparked in an apartment building in Chicago, fire officials said. The blaze ignited just before 4 a.m. on the second floor of a building on South [Read More…]

First Coast News(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Two people were killed, and at least another 11 more injured in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a Madden NFL e-games tournament in a popular area of [Read More…]

First Coast News(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Two people were killed, and at least another 11 more injured in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a Madden NFL e-games tournament in a popular area of [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Reeling from the shock and outrage of Mollie Tibbetts’ slaying in the small Iowa town the college student from California called home, hundreds of mourners filled a gymnasium Sunday [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Reeling from the shock and outrage of Mollie Tibbetts’ slaying in the small Iowa town the college student from California called home, hundreds of mourners filled a gymnasium Sunday [Read More…]

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Multiple fatalities were reported in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a Madden NFL e-games tournament in a popular area of Jacksonville, Florida, and one suspect was dead at the [Read More…]

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Police in Jacksonville, Florida, said multiple fatalities were reported in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a venue in a popular area of the city, where officials are warning people [Read More…]

(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Police in Jacksonville, Florida, said multiple fatalities were reported in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a venue in a popular area of the city, where officials are warning people [Read More…]

John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President George W. Bush has accepted an invitation to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. John McCain at the National Cathedral and is [Read More…]

John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former President George W. Bush has accepted an invitation to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. John McCain at the National Cathedral and is [Read More…]