Month: June 2019

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. is looking to build an “international consensus” around Thursday’s tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman that the U.S. has blamed squarely on Iran. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of [Read More…]

Appleton PD(APPLETON, Wis.) — Two officers involved in a shooting that left the suspect and a firefighter dead have been cleared of any wrongdoing in Wisconsin. Outagamie County District Attorney Melinda Tempelis said Appleton Police [Read More…]

Appleton PD(APPLETON, Wis.) — Two officers involved in a shooting that left the suspect and a firefighter dead have been cleared of any wrongdoing in Wisconsin. Outagamie County District Attorney Melinda Tempelis said Appleton Police [Read More…]

iStock/AndreyPopov(WASHINGTON) — A federal court on Friday knocked down the Trump administration’s policy that allowed officials to deny abortion access to pregnant migrant teenagers in government custody. A judge had already issued a preliminary injunction [Read More…]

iStock/spyarm(BOSTON) — A Massachusetts man whose real identity is not known was convicted Wednesday of using another person’s identity for more than 40 years, according to federal prosecutors in Massachusetts. The suspect, referred to only [Read More…]

iStock/CREATISTA(PHOENIX) — A privately funded border wall in New Mexico is being forced by a government agency to keep a gate open during the day, although local authorities have decided the door can be closed [Read More…]

iStock/jetcityimage(NEW YORK) — A 34-year-old registered sex offender is facing charges that he befriended a 13-year-old girl on social media and then arranged for her to make the 200-mile journey to his home in Nebraska [Read More…]

Miami Gardens Police Department(MIAMI) — A former Miami high school assistant principal was taken into custody Friday in the murder of a school staffer who was his childhood friend, prosecutors said. Ernest Roberts, a former [Read More…]

iStock/monkeybusinessimages(WASHINGTON) — the Justice Department has formed a transnational elder fraud strike force to combat the growing international problem of elder fraud. Elder fraud is when fraudsters prey on older victims who can be more [Read More…]

iStock/Sergey Sidorov(MOSCOW) — A Russian scientific institute says it has found an almost perfectly preserved head of a 32,000 year-old wolf has been found frozen in the ground in Siberia, so complete that it is [Read More…]

Paula Lobo/Walt Disney Television(NEW YORK) — Award-winning performer and fashion icon Billy Porter is known to captivate an audience with ease, but this time, he captured the audience with a warning about America’s future. Friday [Read More…]

WTVD(ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C.) — When a 17-year-old North Carolina girl was attacked by a shark, her dad fought back, hitting the animal “with everything I could.” Paige Winter was rushed to the hospital after she [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — A heartbreaking story of an unborn baby being cut from his mother’s abdomen has become even more tragic. Authorities said the little boy died Friday after being in the hospital for more than [Read More…]

WTVD(RALIEGH, N.C.) — In 1952, two deputies in Wake County, North Carolina, hung Lynn Council, an African American man, from a tree when he wouldn’t confess to a robbery, according to ABC Raleigh station WTVD. [Read More…]

ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — The streets of Hong Kong were calm and quiet Friday after days of protests over the government’s controversial proposal to change an extradition law that would allow individuals to be [Read More…]