Month: February 2019

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(EL PASO, Texas) — Eleven detainees at an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas, have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days, and six of the detainees are being [Read More…]

nycshooter/iStock(NEW YORK) — Getting around the nation’s largest city is getting more expensive. A judge in New York cleared the way for a $2.50 surcharge to be added to a taxi fare. An extra $2.75 [Read More…]

yelo34/iStock(MILWAUKEE) — A 62-year-old man was “frozen solid” when he was found dead in his Wisconsin backyard on Thursday, according to a local official. The man didn’t come to work, prompting his co-workers to call [Read More…]

andresr/iStock(CUPERTINO, Calif.) — Apple’s Group FaceTime is fixed and a software update will be released next week that no longer allows iPhone users to eavesdrop on others, the tech giant said in a statement Friday. [Read More…]

Pardeep Pandit/Hindustan Times(LONDON) — Editor’s note: The following contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised. A wild leopard injured six people in India after being on the loose for 11 hours, officials said. The animal [Read More…]

wingedwolf/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. employers added 304,000 jobs to their payrolls in January, the Labor Department reported Friday morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said most of the job gains were in leisure and hospitality (74,000), [Read More…]

ronniechua/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. is withdrawing from a historic Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty because of Russia’s ongoing violation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty has [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The deadly arctic blast is winding down with one last cold morning from Chicago to New York City. At least 15 people were killed, including a student at the University of [Read More…]

Urupong/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Last summer, during the largest fire in California history, firefighters encountered an unexpected danger. It had nothing to do with flames or smoke or wind speeds. They couldn’t communicate. In the middle of [Read More…]

rustythedog/iStock(DETROIT) — A Detroit police officer is under investigation Thursday after he allegedly posted racist video of a black woman he pulled over for driving with an expired license plate. The Detroit Police Department said [Read More…]

Middlesex County Prosecutors Office(WOODBRIDGE, N.J.) — A New Jersey man was arrested in mid-January and charged with insurance fraud after he was caught on surveillance video tossing ice on the floor and allegedly faking a [Read More…]

Monroe County Sheriffs Office(MADISONVILLE, Tenn.) — A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said. She had been reported missing earlier this [Read More…]

OConnell Family(ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.) — Florida police are investigating what they are calling a “suspicious” death of a private citizen who was conducting their own personal investigation into the 2010 death of young Florida mother [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(PRETORIA, South Africa) — Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school in South Africa collapsed. The incident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, a city [Read More…]