Month: October 2018

NHK News(NEW YORK) — An international team of Santa Clauses are training with ninjas in Japan to hone their gift-delivery skills in time for the holiday season. Nearly a dozen Santas from the Greenland International [Read More…]

Linda Spillers/WireImage for Bragman Nyman Cafarelli via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Egyptian publisher of a now-viral in-flight magazine interview with Drew Barrymore issued a statement on Tuesday insisting the interview was real. According to [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) — Hurricane Michael is closing in on the Florida Panhandle, forecast to make landfall as a “monstrous” Category 3 storm with a dangerous storm surge of up to 12 feet, officials said. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ALBANY, N.Y.) — The family of the driver of the limousine that crashed in upstate New York, killing 20 people, said they believe the vehicle “was neither roadworthy or safe.” The driver, Scott Lisincchia, 53, [Read More…]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Google debuted its upgraded smart phone, the Pixel 3, the new Pixelbook tablet and an even smarter Home Hub at its annual “Made by Google” event in New York on [Read More…]

ABC News(CHICAGO) — A 2-year-old boy has been shot dead in Chicago, becoming the youngest gun violence victim in the city this year, police told ABC News. The toddler and an 18-year-old man were standing [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Storm surge poses a deadly threat as “monstrous” Hurricane Michael barrels toward the Florida Panhandle. “We haven’t seen anything like this in the Panhandle in decades,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday. [Read More…]

Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool/Getty Images(PYONGYANG, N.K.) — Kim Jong Un, the once-reclusive leader of one of the world’s most closed nations, appears to be continuing his recent international outreach by relaying an invitation for Pope Francis [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Hurricane Michael is bearing down on the Florida Panhandle and is forecast to be a “monstrous” Category 3 storm when it makes landfall, officials warn. “We are about 12 hours away from [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — More than a thousand noncitizens may have been registered to vote in California after a processing error, according to officials. The Department of Motor Vehicles admitted Monday a mistake caused as many [Read More…]

ABC News(AMSTERDAM, N.Y.) — Community members arranged a candlelit vigil in upstate New York on Monday to remember the victims of a fatal limousine crash that authorities consider the country’s deadliest transportation accident in nearly [Read More…]

Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences(NEW YORK) — When the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences called New York University professor Paul Romer early this morning to inform him that he was co-recipient of this year’s Nobel [Read More…]