Month: May 2019

TheaDesign/iStock(DOVER, N.J.) — A video recorded during a violent arrest shows at least one New Jersey police officer punching a suspect who’s pinned to the ground. Cyprian Luke, 19, was apprehended around 2 a.m. on [Read More…]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(DALLAS) — A transgender woman seen brutally attacked in a widely circulated video last month was shot to death in Dallas over the weekend. Muhlaysia Booker, 23, was found “lying face down” on a Dallas [Read More…]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(DALLAS) — A transgender woman seen brutally attacked in a widely circulated video last month was shot to death in Dallas over the weekend. Muhlaysia Booker, 23, was found “lying face down” on a Dallas [Read More…]

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office(PALO ALTO, Calif.) — A former Stanford University employee was arrested in connection to a cold case murder from the 1970s this week, just months after genetic genealogy linked him to [Read More…]

San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office(PALO ALTO, Calif.) — A former Stanford University employee was arrested in connection to a cold case murder from the 1970s this week, just months after genetic genealogy linked him to [Read More…]

Marcus Ingram/Getty Images(ATLANTA) — While most commencement speakers offer words of encouragement to college graduates headed into the cold and cruel work world, billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith left the class of 2019 at Morehouse University [Read More…]

iStock/wellesenterprises(NEW YORK) —  He survived the Columbine High School mass shooting, but a 20-year battle with drug addiction that followed, one that Austin Eubanks had publicly said started with pills given to ease his pain [Read More…]

iStock/bluefox42(NEW YORK) — Four Americans have died after a small plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Honduras, according to the U.S. State Department. “We express our condolences to all those affected [Read More…]

iStock/Chalabala(NEW YORK) — U.S. pet owners could soon feel the impact of America’s intensifying trade war with China deep down in their pockets. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on $200 [Read More…]

iStock/antonbelo(CAIRO) — A bus full of foreign tourists was bombed Sunday near Egypt’s famed pyramids of Giza, injuring several passengers, authorities said. The explosion happened as the tour bus was driving past the Grand Egyptian [Read More…]

Fort Worth Police(FORT WORTH, TX) — Authorities have found an 8-year-old girl following a desperate overnight search after she was ripped away from her mother and pulled into a stranger’s car on Saturday afternoon. The [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The second day of an outbreak of severe weather Saturday brought 10 reported tornadoes to to the Plains, part of 38 reported tornadoes since Friday. In addition to the tornadoes, widespread damaging [Read More…]

Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was apparently assaulted at an event in South Africa. In a video now making the rounds on social media, the former bodybuilder [Read More…]

iStock/RyanJLane(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indianapolis police are investigating the death of a baby who had been in a hot car on Saturday as temperatures climbed into the 80s. Emergency personnel were called to an AutoZone parking lot [Read More…]

iStock/Marilyn Nieves(CHICAGO) — Grim new details have emerged about the murder of a pregnant teenager whose baby was cut from her womb, as prosecutors described how the teen was lured by a Facebook ad for [Read More…]

Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) – Rashema Melson is no stranger to adversity. The 23-year-old, who had lived for three years in a Washington, D.C. shelter, made headlines as the valedictorian of [Read More…]