Month: June 2019

Manakin/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Two commercial tanker ships were hit by apparent attacks on Thursday while sailing in international waters in the Gulf of Oman, and while a U.S. official said that it was too soon to [Read More…]

Paula Lobo/ABC(ROME) — Amanda Knox arrived in Italy Thursday for the first time since her 2015 acquittal in a years-long murder case there. Knox will take part in a three-day conference on criminal law in [Read More…]

Paul Kane/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, husband of Serena Williams and father of their daughter, Olympia, is on a mission to get dads the mandated right to take paid paternity [Read More…]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — A crowd of protesters clashed with authorities at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Memphis, Tennessee Wednesday night. Some people hurled rocks and bricks at Memphis Police Department officers and Shelby [Read More…]

LASD(LOS ANGELES) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was shot in the head at a fast food restaurant has died from his injuries, the department’s sheriff said Wednesday night. Deputy Joseph Gilbert Solano, [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — In parts of Georgia and South Carolina, more than half a foot of rain has fallen in the last 24 to 48 hours and caused flash flooding. Downtown Charleston, South Carolina [Read More…]

benedek/iStock(CHICAGO) — Visitors to Chicago’s Willis Tower, the city’s tallest building, captured video that appears to show cracks in the glass floor of its SkyDeck ledge 103 floors above ground. A Willis Tower spokesperson told [Read More…]

Louisiana State Fire Marshal(NEW YORK) — A Louisiana man accused of intentionally setting fires at three historically black churches has been charged with a federal hate crime, authorities said Wednesday. Holden Matthews, the son of [Read More…]

Nastasic/iStock(DENVER) — Colorado has generated more than $1 billion by selling marijuana. The state legalized weed in 2014. Since then, total sales have exceeded $6.56 billion, according to the state’s department of revenue. “Today’s report [Read More…]

Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(HONG KONG) — The president of Hong Kong’s legislature has again suspended a debate on a polarizing proposal to change the city’s extradition law, following violent clashes between police and [Read More…]

Kuzma/iStock(PEORIA, Ill.) — In a shocking courtroom revelation, the attorney for Brendt Christensen, a former teaching assistant at the University of Illinois, admitted that his own client had kidnapped and killed a young Chinese visiting [Read More…]

The Dallas Police Department(DALLAS) — Police in Dallas have arrested a suspect in connection with a string of murders targeting black transgender women. Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, was charged with murder in the slaying of [Read More…]