Month: June 2019

Courtesy Shantell Barbour(NEW YORK) — Forget Superman, it was Delta Airlines to the rescue for a group of students and their chaperones who recently found themselves stranded in an airport before the first leg of [Read More…]

Marvel Studios(NEW YORK) — WARNING: “AVENGERS: ENDGAME” SPOILERS AHEAD. What better way to say goodbye to Tony Stark than in the very place his superpowered friends did? Eagle-eyed fans on Reddit thought there was something [Read More…]

UrosPoteko/iStock(NEW YORK) — Even as 11 states, plus Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational cannabis, lawmakers have struggled to find consensus on the question of whether employers could reject an applicant over their pot use. Now [Read More…]

CIL868/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Congress is moving ahead with legislation to block $8 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates after the Trump administration declared an “emergency” to bypass Congress and move [Read More…]

jejim/iStock(BOSTON) — The former Stanford University sailing coach charged in the massive “Varsity Blues” college entrance cheating scam avoided a prison term Wednesday when he became the first defendant in the nationwide scandal to be [Read More…]

vichinterlang/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. hit a new low in 2017, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. About 10.5 million lived in the U.S. in [Read More…]

Darwin Brandis/iStock(NEW YORK) — Add New York University’s medical center to the list of educational and cultural institutions that says it will no longer take money from the Sacklers, the family that owns OxyContin manufacturer [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Florida lawmakers are looking to designate the site of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, where more than four dozen people were killed in 2016, a national memorial. Congressional Reps. Stephanie [Read More…]

Phoenix Police Department(PHOENIX) — The Phoenix Police Department has opened an investigation into how officers treated two shoplifting suspects, after a witness provided cellphone video showing one of the officers sweeping the leg of a [Read More…]

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is highlighting the plans in motion to tackle the city’s homelessness crisis, which he described as “perhaps the most complex and difficult civic challenge” [Read More…]

Cesare Ferrari/iStock(LONDON) — A young child who became the first cross-border case of Ebola in the world’s second-largest outbreak has died, health officials said. The 5-year-old boy sought medical care at a hospital in western [Read More…]

fredrocko/iStock(DETROIT) — Ford Motor Company has issued safety recalls for more than a million cars. The model most affected by the series of recalls are Ford Explorer SUVs that were made between 2011 and 2017 [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Twenty-five years after Ron Goldman’s murder, his family is speaking out on the anniversary of the crime for the first time. “The pain is always there, the loss is always there,” [Read More…]