Month: September 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(TAMPA, Fla.) — The white man who invoked Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law in the fatal shooting of Markeis McGlockton, an African-American father of three, during a confrontation over a handicap parking space has [Read More…]

ABC News (HOUSTON) — Officer assist. Suspects on the ground,” said the call from dispatch that came into Wendy Caldwell’s police car. The car’s sirens went on, and Caldwell was off racing through the streets [Read More…]

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN,Pa.) — Bill Cosby — one of the most iconic figures in modern U.S. history, a multiplatform entertainer who revolutionized comedy in the 1960s and the television sitcom in the 1980s — will [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock (RICH COUNTY, Utah) — A 14-year-old boy was struck and killed by a stray bullet in what was apparently a freak accident while riding in the back seat of a car with his family [Read More…]

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images(PALO ALTO, Calif.) — Instagram’s co-founders announced their resignations on Monday, but the creative duo hinted about a possible collaboration in the near future. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom and co-founder Mike Krieger will [Read More…]

LAPD(LOS ANGELES) — Police arrested a man on Monday in connection with a string of brutal attacks on homeless men in Los Angeles, including two who were beaten to death while sleeping. The suspect was [Read More…]

ABC News Photo Illustration(NEW YORK) — At a time when our nation seems so polarized by politics, National Voter Registration Day is something we can all get behind, no matter who we’re voting for. Ahead [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Authorities in Massachusetts have charged an undocumented immigrant with murder after he allegedly stabbed three fellow crew members, one fatally, on a fishing boat 55 miles off the coast. The U.S. Attorney’s Office [Read More…]

Courtesy Fleishman Hillard(NEW YORK) — Dozens of iconic landmarks in cities around the world will turn off half their lights throughout this week to raise awareness for the importance of global gender equality and illustrate [Read More…]

Paula Bronstein/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The U.S. is not declaring Myanmar’s violent campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority long persecuted in the country’s northwest, to be “genocide” in a new fact-finding report. The [Read More…]

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — A sentencing hearing for comedian Bill Cosby began Monday as women who said he drugged and physically took advantage of them, including one whom he was convicted of sexually assaulting, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump is preparing for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he said on Monday while meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. While critics have warned [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — A Chicago-area priest, who has sparked nationwide outrage after burning an LGBTQ banner that once hung in the church, has been removed from the parish, the Archdiocese of Chicago confirms. Cardinal Blase Cupich, [Read More…]

Simsbury Police Dept.(SIMSBURY, Conn.) — Nearly four years ago, Melissa Millan, a mother of two, was brutally murdered in Connecticut while she was out on a jog. The crime went unsolved until last week, when [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — An American diplomat in Madagascar was found dead in their home late Friday night, the State Department confirmed on Monday. U.S. and Malagasy authorities are conducting a joint investigation into the death in [Read More…]