Month: March 2019

Broward County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Cesar Sayoc, the man behind a campaign of letter bombs targeting prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to 65 counts in Manhattan federal [Read More…]

poco_bw/iStock(HOUSTON) — A massive chemical fire south of Houston, Texas, triggered an emergency order for locals to shelter in place even after a dangerous chemical was detected in the air. Local officials and public health [Read More…]

Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images(BEIRA, Mozambique) — Thousands of people, some seen clinging to rooftops and tree branches, still await rescue from rising floodwaters in Mozambique, one week after an intense tropical cyclone walloped the southeast African [Read More…]

Mark Duffy/UK Parliament(LONDON) — Big Ben, the iconic clock tower in London, is returning to its former glory. The clock’s north face has been restored to its original Prussian blue and gold colors. Sir Charles [Read More…]

Baltimore Police Dept.(BALTIMORE) — A father and daughter who authorities say fabricated a story of a panhandler stabbing his wife to death were extradited to Baltimore early Thursday to face murder charges as newly released [Read More…]

Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) — When a police officer dies in the line of duty it often prompts an outpouring of generosity from within the ranks to support the officer’s family. But Lorraine Shanley, a volunteer treasurer [Read More…]

Nathan Hawkins/Big Country Snakes(ALBANY, Texas) — A Texas resident’s world was rattled after he learn he was sharing his home with several dozen deadly reptiles. Last week, the man crawled beneath his home near Albany [Read More…]

alexsl/iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook officials admitted on Thursday that the tech giant stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text — able to be read by employees. “As part of a routine security [Read More…]

RnDmS/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday changed decades of U.S. Middle East policy with a tweet, announcing that “After 52 years, it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israeli’s Sovereignty over [Read More…]

rypson/iStock(NEW YORK) — Two JetBlue pilots sexually assaulted two female airline workers during a layover in San Juan, according to a lawsuit the alleged victims filed in Brooklyn federal court. The two airline crew members, [Read More…]