Month: May 2019

ElFlacodelNorte/iStock(NEW YORK) — A crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall in New Mexico was unveiled this week after getting pushback from local officials over construction permits. We Build the Wall, the group organizing [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) — Women are well aware they earn around 80 cents for every dollar their male coworkers make — in a phenomenon known as the gender pay gap — but they may be surprised [Read More…]

iStock(BUDAPEST, Hungary) — Hope began to fade Friday morning in the search for 21 people feared lost after a boating accident in Budapest’s Danube River. There were 33 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Dozens of rivers and streams are at or overflowing their banks in the Upper Midwest and Gulf Coast as the regions deal with rainfall measured in feet, not inches. In the [Read More…]

chinaface/iStock(SEATTLE) — One person was killed and two others injured after several groups of climbers were caught in a rockfall on Mount Rainier in Washington on Wednesday. There were three pairs of climbers camping out [Read More…]

MicroStockHub/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles police said they discovered the remains of a missing Colorado woman who vanished while visiting Malibu last week. Divers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said they found the [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images(OXON HILL, Md.) — For the first time in history, the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended with more than two winners on Thursday night. And they went way above a simple tie, [Read More…]

KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — Authorities removed 136 dogs from a house in a gated community in Southern California on Thursday. The owners of the mansion have been cited for animal cruelty. The Orange Police Department received [Read More…]

Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — With the fate of Missouri’s lone Planned Parenthood clinic, its last remaining abortion provider hanging in the balance, demonstrators marched at the St. Louis Gateway Arch and at [Read More…]

Razvan/iStock(NEW YORK) — Disney’s CEO hinted that the company may not film future movies in Georgia in light of the state’s controversial abortion law. Bob Iger, the head of the media company that owns ABC [Read More…]

Manjurul/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The number of measles cases reported in the first five months of 2019 has now surpassed every year since 1994, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. A whopping number of [Read More…]