Month: February 2019

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After rising tensions in Venezuela turned violent over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence doubled down on diplomatic and economic pressure on Monday with additional U.S. sanctions on regime officials and [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — An incendiary headline placed next to a picture of prominent Democrats in a magazine produced by the National Rifle Association is causing some backlash. A spread in the March issue [Read More…]

Samir Hussein/WireImage(RABAT, Morocco) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continued their royal tour of Morocco Monday with events that continued the theme of their tour, empowering youth and women. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s [Read More…]

bedo/iStock(HANOI, Vietnam) — South Korean government officials hinted that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may reach an agreement to declare an end to the Korean War (1950-53) at their summit later [Read More…]

Chicago Police Department(CHICAGO) — After a weekend in jail, R&B singer R. Kelly is hoping to get his freedom back on Monday following a hearing in Chicago in his attorney entered on his behalf not [Read More…]

ABC News(CHICAGO) — ABC News has obtained a copy of a $3,500 check apparently written by Empire actor Jussie Smollett to Abimbola Osundairo, one of the two brothers who police say helped stage an attack [Read More…]

John Lamparski/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — When Reshma Saujani brought her idea for Girls Who Code, an organization she founded to close the gender gap in technology, to a trusted business associate, he told her “this [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major storm system barreled through America’s heartland over the weekend, wreaking havoc from the Great Lakes down to the Gulf Coast. Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia got battered with at least [Read More…]

dkfielding/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A 40-foot, 16-ton Latin cross on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland, is the next major legal test for the Constitutional separation of church and state. The Supreme Court will consider this week whether [Read More…]

recep-bg/iStock(OAKLAND, Calif.) — As negotiations dragged on over the weekend to break a stalemate in the Oakland, California, teachers’ strike, educators plan to be back on picket lines on Monday and could see support from [Read More…]

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — YouTube is implementing a new community enforcement policy starting Monday, in its latest attempt to combat the spread of problematic content that includes child pornography, violence and hate [Read More…]

Chambers County Sheriff’s Office(HOUSTON) — The three people aboard a cargo jet contracted by Amazon that crashed in a bay near Houston, Texas, “did not survive,” the company announced Sunday. The Boeing 767 jetliner, which [Read More…]