Month: September 2018

Facebook/Maria Butina(NEW YORK) — Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and was even paid to [Read More…]

Watsonville Police Department(WATSONVILLE, Calif.) — An arsonist was caught on video setting fire to a Planned Parenthood building in California and now the FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The 9/11 attacks happened 17 years ago, but many people are still suffering and dying from the aftermath. On that fall day, 2,997 people died as a direct result of the [Read More…]

NYPD(NEW YORK) — New York City police are searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a store worker by tossing wine bottles at him in one of a pair of violent robberies on Sunday. Alleged [Read More…]

Italian Ministry of Culture(ROME) — It was an amphora, not a pot, but archaeologists found a literal jackpot in a dig in northern Italy last week. No word on if there was a rainbow. Hundreds [Read More…]

Kaufman County Jail (DALLAS) — A Dallas police officer who fatally shot a man she thought was inside her home when he was actually inside his own apartment has been arrested for manslaughter, records showed. [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) —  Tropical Storm Florence was upgraded to a hurricane on Sunday morning by the National Hurricane Center. Florence is now classified as a Category 1 hurricane, and is currently expected to [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves has been let go from the network amid new allegations of sexual assault, CBS confirmed in a statement. Moonves and CBS will donate $20 [Read More…]

Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office(NEW YORK) —  A man was caught on camera walking up to his neighbor’s Florida house allegedly with an assault rifle and wearing a ballistic vest, police said. Kevin Flaherty, 48, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Thousands of goose-stepping soldiers, battalions of tanks, rocket launchers and fighter jets were on display in and above Pyongyang’s Kim II Sung Square on Sunday to mark the 70th anniversary of North [Read More…]

Alexandria Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors have backed away from a salacious claim that Maria Butina, a Washington woman arrested for allegedly acting as a covert agent of the Russian government, had used sex [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Florence was upgraded to a hurricane on Sunday morning by the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Florence is now classified as a Category 1 hurricane, and is taking aim at [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Florence is expected to intensify into a hurricane on Sunday as it continues to take aim at the United States’ southeast coast. Governors in Virginia, North Carolina and South [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Slow-moving storms brought very heavy rainfall to parts of the Midwest and South on Saturday with over 9 inches of total rainfall reported in parts of southern Illinois and widespread totals [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  One of the victims of the shooting at a downtown Cincinnati bank is “thankful” to all who rendered her aid and is thinking about how she can make a difference in the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean is Sept. 10, and right on schedule, the Atlantic Basin has come to life with numerous areas of concern. Foremost among those [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(STOCKHOLM) — “If Sweden is attacked, resistance is required,” Swedes were warned this year. A 20-page leaflet, mailed to all households in Sweden and resembling a wartime government communiqué, was, in fact, part of Sweden’s [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) —  A racially charged post against Asians by a California lawyer has led a civil rights group to start a petition to have the attorney formally disciplined. Christina Ignatius, an attorney from Orange [Read More…]