Month: June 2019

ABC News(NORMANDY, France) — Before this week, Stan Friday had not been back to Normandy, France, since he and Allied forces stormed its beaches to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. For years, the World War [Read More…]

iStock/tupungato(PHILADELPHIA) — The Philadelphia Police Department has disciplined some of its officers amid an investigation into racist social media posts allegedly made by current and former officers. The department is working with an outside law [Read More…]

iStock/scibak(NEW YORK) — You don’t have to be an astronaut to visit the International Space Station, NASA said on Friday. But be prepared to pay…a lot. NASA is enabling private citizens to stay for up [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(CARRIZO SPRINGS, TX.) — The federal government will turn an apartment complex once used by oil field workers in south Texas into an emergency shelter for 1,600 migrant kids who arrive at the [Read More…]

iStock/400tmax(LONDON) — London police have arrested four teenage men following an alleged homophobic assault and robbery of two women on a London bus last week. Melania Geymonat revealed in a Facebook post that she and [Read More…]

iStock(WEST POINT, N.Y.) — The West Point cadet killed in an overturned vehicle training accident at the U.S. Military Academy was identified Friday. Cadet Christopher J. Morgan, 22, of West Orange, New Jersey, was part [Read More…]

iStock(DETROIT) — Detroit’s mayor is vowing to board up the city’s vacant homes in the wake of a potential serial killer who may be using the empty dwellings to target victims. After three victims were [Read More…]

iStock(MINNEAPOLIS) — Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was sentenced on Friday to 12 1/2 years behind bars for the fatal 2017 shooting of Australian bride-to-be Justine Ruszczyk Damond. The July 15, 2017, shooting occurred [Read More…]

iStock(MANILA) — When a Russian destroyer sailed 50 to 100 feet from a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser on Friday — a distance so close the American ship had to make last-second maneuvers to avoid a [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Heavy rain and severe weather pounded parts of the Southern Plains and Deep South on Thursday, with eight reported tornadoes in three states: Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. Also, very heavy rain [Read More…]

Google (NEW YORK) — An organizer of last November’s global Google walkout, which protested the media giant’s sexual harassment policies, has left the company after saying she faced retaliation. Claire Stapleton, a 12-year veteran of [Read More…]

Antonel/iStock(NEW YORK) — A 22-year-old man is in federal custody after he asked about buying grenades and discussed possibly detonating them in New York City’s Times Square, according to law enforcement sources. The man, identified [Read More…]

Antonel/iStock(NEW YORK) — A 22-year-old man is in federal custody after he asked about buying grenades and discussed possibly detonating them in New York City’s Times Square, according to law enforcement sources. The man, identified [Read More…]

Kiyoshi Tanno/iStock(WASHINGTON) — For years, disabled veterans were mistakenly charged fees when taking out home loans and the federal government now owes at least $189 million in refunds, a watchdog report revealed this week. The [Read More…]