Month: July 2019

via NASA(NEW YORK) —  Three men went to the moon, but only two walked on the lunar surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the man who manned the command module during the moonwalk, reflected on the historic [Read More…]

iStock(OXNARD, Calif.) — The mother of a newborn and her boyfriend have been arrested after the disturbing murder of the baby soon after she gave birth at a California hospital. Andrea Torralba, 20, and David [Read More…]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images(NEW YORK) —  When a California college student created an event to meet aliens at Area 51, he had no idea he was setting the groundwork to entertain millions of earthlings. Matty Roberts [Read More…]

Kris Allen(NEW YORK) —  A 2-year-old Minnesota boy who was reported missing was quickly found at a county fair — after making the trek in on his toy tractor, his family said Saturday. Little Kenneth [Read More…]

studioEAST/Getty Images(LONDON) —  British Airways and the German carrier Lufthansa said on Saturday they had suspended all flights to Cairo for seven days as a security “precaution,” but offered no additional details. “We constantly review [Read More…]

iStock/MichalLudwiczak(ROME) — Bones were collected from the depths of the Vatican Saturday, the latest effort to solve the mystery of a 15-year-old girl who vanished 36 years ago. Representatives of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, [Read More…]

iStock/JadeThaiCatwalk(NEW YORK) —  A Michigan beauty queen was stripped of her title over comments she made on social media about Muslim women and black people, she said. Executives with Miss World America told Kathy Zhu, [Read More…]

Chris McGrath/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong authorities seized a large haul of explosives and weapons in a raid Friday, leading to an arrest and an investigation just as the city braces for another mass [Read More…]

iStock(TEHRAN) — Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have seized a British-flagged and a Liberian-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, Britain’s foreign secretary said, in what appeared to be a [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — When Americans first walked on the moon 50 years ago, the idea of space travel crystallized into a graspable future. Bolstered by a geeky shift in pop culture that launched and relaunched [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — When Americans first walked on the moon 50 years ago, the idea of space travel crystallized into a graspable future. Bolstered by a geeky shift in pop culture that launched and relaunched [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Several heat index readings came close to setting records across the eastern half of the U.S. on Friday, with the hottest temperatures still yet to come on the East Coast. Des [Read More…]