Month: January 2019

Gladys Vega/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, many big companies are gearing up for what will be one of the biggest commercial opportunities of the year, and ABC [Read More…]

VCG/VCG via Getty Images(HONG KONG) — He Jiankui was supposed to be the pride and joy of China, a top scientific talent recruited back from the United States to usher his homeland into the new [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — All over Twitter and Facebook, citizen commentators are offering a solution to end the partial U.S. government shutdown: airport workers should just go on strike. “How many hours after all [Read More…]

VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images(ROME) — Pope Francis left Rome Wednesday morning for Panama on his 26th foreign trip since becoming pope. He’ll be in the Central American country until Sunday and plans to attend the Catholic [Read More…]

Richard Martin-Roberts/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Wait, it’s a meteorite hitting the moon? On Sunday, millions of people around the world watched as the Earth’s shadow covered the moon in [Read More…]

Kativ/iStock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A husband and wife accused of defrauding Swisher Sweets International out of almost $4 million used that money to buy precious metals, vehicles, guns and ammunition, according to an arrest warrant, because [Read More…]

recep-bg/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — The union representing striking Los Angeles teachers reached a deal with the school district Tuesday to end the strike and increase teachers’ pay and shrink their class sizes. Teachers will head back [Read More…]

BigNazik/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Fyre Festival, sensationalized and sold as a luxe Bahamian music getaway backed by extreme social media hype, quickly went south and is remembered as a scandal that cost not only attendees [Read More…]

vincent_ruf/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The State Department has called all employees back to work this week, but the ongoing partial government shutdown has left U.S. diplomats uncertain and restricted in their activities. While they may be allowed [Read More…]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) — Four suspects are under arrest in upstate New York and charged with an alleged conspiracy to use improvised explosive devices and guns to attack an Islamic community about 170 miles away — [Read More…]

Tomsmith585/iStock(NEW YORK) — Officials have now resumed operations after a ground stop had been ordered at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to drone activity, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Two drones [Read More…]

Tomsmith585/iStock(NEW YORK) — A ground stop has been ordered at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to drone activity, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Two drones were seen about 3,500 feet above [Read More…]

Tomsmith585/iStock(NEW YORK) — A ground stop has been ordered at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to drone activity, according to a senior federal aviation source. Two drones were seen about 3,500 feet [Read More…]

Mayor Bob Everson is proposing a major property purpose near Lake Mitchell. The City Council will consider approval at a special meeting Wednesday evening at 6 pm in council chambers.