Month: November 2018

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Election Day is finally here. If you aren’t one of the millions of Americans who have already voted as part of their state’s early voting period for the midterm elections, Tuesday [Read More…]

Facebook(MENLO PARK, Calif.) — Facebook has blocked 115 accounts on its platforms due to alleged “inauthentic behavior” ahead of the 2018 midterm elections on Tuesday. Facebook made the announcement in a statement Monday evening, saying [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MUMBAI, India) — A tiger that officials say killed 13 people was shot dead in central India over the weekend, igniting a firestorm of criticism from politicians and animal rights activists who said the killing [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — At least one person is dead after a possible tornado tore through parts of Tennessee, bringing heavy rain and dangerous wind gusts. Authorities said a woman died and two others were [Read More…]

Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office(NEW YORK) — An Uber driver is facing a manslaughter charge after he allegedly allowed his passengers to surf on the top of his car, causing the death of one passenger [Read More…]

U.S. Coast Guard District 7, FILE(NEW YORK) — A British man has pleaded guilty to charges connected with the 2017 disappearance of his new wife while sailing the Caribbean during their honeymoon. Lewis Bennett, 41, [Read More…]

Spc. Hosannah Vickery(WASHINGTON) — By the end of Monday there will be 5,200 active duty service members serving along the border in what is officially a support mission to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Three women were arrested Monday after allegedly carrying a large banner, wrapped in rope, on to the Manhattan Bridge bike path in New York, authorities said. NYPD officers stopped them before the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A new installation commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I has opened in London. The installation, “Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers,” featuring approximately 10,000 torches, each illuminated [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The remains of a National Guard soldier and Utah mayor killed in Afghanistan over the weekend are expected to arrive in the United States on Tuesday, according to the Department of Defense. Maj. [Read More…]

missingkids.org(LUMBERTON, N.C.) — An Amber Alert has been issued after a 13-year-old North Carolina girl was kidnapped in front of her home before school, local police said. Eighth-grader Hania Noleia Aguilar was kidnapped just before [Read More…]

WTXL-TV(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A man who took on a rampaging gunman who killed two people and wounded four others at a Florida yoga studio says he grabbed the first makeshift weapon he could find and [Read More…]

US European Command(WASHINGTON) — A Russian fighter jet flying at a high rate of speed buzzed a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane as it flew in international airspace over the Black Sea Monday — an intercept [Read More…]

Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — A Jewish nurse who treated the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter in the hospital says he “chose to show him empathy.” “I wanted him to feel compassion,” nurse Ari Mahler wrote in [Read More…]