Month: October 2018

iStocl/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The man suspected of shooting seven South Carolina police officers has been charged with murder, authorities announced Friday. Fred Hopkins, 74, allegedly ambushed officers who were serving a search warrant for sexual [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(DUBLIN) — Ireland could make abortions legal for women up to 12 weeks pregnant under the first such bill to come before Parliament since the country overwhelmingly overturned its near-ban on abortion. The bill would [Read More…]

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn.) — A desperate manhunt came to an end Friday morning as authorities announced the capture of a double murder suspect. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that Kirby [Read More…]

Credit Karma(NEW YORK) — Not everything in FinTech (financial tech) is as sexy as cryptocurrency. But it can mean more than using Venmo to pay back your friends for your share of the bar tab. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GASTONIA, N.C.) — A 6-year-old boy whose body was found in a North Carolina creek after a dayslong search is being laid to rest. The funeral for Maddox Ritch is slated for Friday in his [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(RALEIGH, N.C.) — A North Carolina man who had said taking too much cold medicine may have led him to stab his wife to death pleaded guilty in court Friday. Matthew Phelps pleaded guilty to [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GILBERT, Minn) — Birds in northern Minnesota are swarming and dive-bombing cars and homes. The behavior might echo Alfred Hitchock’s “The Birds,” but there’s a key difference: “They literally get drunk,” Chelsea Trucano, a patrol [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LYON, France) — French police are investigating the disappearance of the president of Interpol during a trip to China, authorities said. “An investigation has been opened by French police about the disappearance of the Chinese [Read More…]

Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) — In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff’s office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases [Read More…]

EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images(OSLO, Norway) — Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad each have won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in armed [Read More…]

Marie Laguerre/Facebook(PARIS) — A 25-year-old man caught on camera punching a woman in the face in the streets of Paris last summer was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday for “aggravated violence,” according [Read More…]

ABC News(SEOUL) — During the first inter-Korean summit in April, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought a specialty dish of Pyongyang cold noodles for his South Korean counterparts to taste. Last month, when South [Read More…]

Kevin Hagen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The New York Police Department and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office are reviewing the conduct of a lead police investigator in the Harvey Weinstein sex assault case, sources briefed on [Read More…]

Jane Roper / Instagram (WASHINGTON) — The debate over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination spilled into the streets of Washington, D.C., Thursday as hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court. Vocal opponents to President Trump’s nominee [Read More…]