Month: June 2019

wellesenterprises/iStock(NEW YORK) — Agriculture conglomerate Monsanto has started contacting journalists, politicians and activists it was keeping tabs on and documenting via “watch lists,” its parent company Bayer announced this week. An international group of journalists, [Read More…]

nensuria/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — Federal officials made a massive cocaine bust in Philadelphia Tuesday, seizing an estimated 16.5 tons of the drug from a ship there — with a street value of over $1 billion, officials said. [Read More…]

ANNECORDON/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer said before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. is ready to place more tariffs on China if it can’t agree to a new trade deal. [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News(PHOENIX) — A Phoenix couple at the center of a viral-video arrest say they will confront the city’s mayor and police chief at a community meeting Tuesday night about why police officers [Read More…]

nensuria/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — Federal officials made a massive cocaine bust in Philadelphia Tuesday, seizing an estimated 16.5 tons of the drug from a ship there — with a street value of over $1 billion, officials said. [Read More…]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was laid to rest in a low-key burial in the early hours of Tuesday, as questions were being raised about his apparently sudden death after suffering [Read More…]

Racine Police Dept.(RACINE, Wis.) — An off-duty Wisconsin police officer was fatally shot while trying to stop an armed robbery at a bar Monday night, according to the police chief. Officer John Hetland, a 24-year [Read More…]

JHVEPhoto/iStock(MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Engineers at Google are working to resolve an outage with Google Calendar, according to the company. The problem began Tuesday morning, according to Google’s service details dashboard. Google Calendar is currently [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News(PHOENIX) — A Phoenix man and his pregnant fiancee rejected apologies from the city’s police chief and its mayor on Monday for an incident last month in which police were caught on [Read More…]

Courtesy of Britain’s Department of Transport(LONDON) — New signs are coming to protect drivers, hedgehogs and other small animals in the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport announced Monday, as hedgehog populations in rural areas [Read More…]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(LAKELAND, Fla.) — A 22-year-old woman was found dead on the side of a Florida road, and now the sheriff is asking the public to help ascertain how she died. Kara Hanvey of Sebring, Florida, [Read More…]