Month: July 2019

iStock(MOSCOW) — Fourteen sailors died in a fire on one of the Russian navy’s deep-sea submersibles, the Russian defense ministry said, according to Russian media. The fire broke out Monday while the submersible was in [Read More…]

iStock(HOUSTON) — A 30-year-old Honduran man who was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has died at a Texas hospital. Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres was found unresponsive in his dormitory at the Houston [Read More…]

code6d/iStock(NEW YORK) — Nike has decided to pull a sneaker it had planned to release to commemorate the Fourth of July. The Air Max 1 sneaker featured an early American flag on the back with [Read More…]

jaboo2foto/iStock(NEW YORK) — As many Americans gear up to hit the road for the Fourth of July weekend, gas prices are heading back up. In the past week, the price of regular unleaded gas has [Read More…]

Anthony Kwan/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — A somber pall fell over Hong Kong on Tuesday, as if the city were shaking off a bad hangover. Monday was the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China [Read More…]

ULISES RUIZ/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Residents in parts of Mexico experienced what may have looked like a winter wonderland in summer, but was really a massive hail storm. Mexico’s national agency for civil protection tweeted [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Not unlike the recent heat wave that just engulfed much of Europe, the U.S. Southeast is bracing for triple-digit figures on the Heat Index. Philadelphia could see highs in the 90s [Read More…]

Aneese/iStock(DALLAS) — A family of four from Texas was among 10 people killed when a small twin-engine plane they were on crashed into a hangar and burst into flames after takeoff from a Dallas area [Read More…]

Drew Bloksberg/iStock(SANTA FE, Texas) — A man who said he survived a deadly school shooting in Texas is not who he claims to be, school district officials announced Monday. The man, who previously identified himself [Read More…]

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In 2014, Sophia Amoruso seemed to be living a charmed life. She was a self-made millionaire thanks to the success of her company, Nasty Gal, an e-commerce store that sold [Read More…]

Aneese/iStock(DALLAS) — A family of four from Texas was among 10 people killed when a small twin-engine plane they were on crashed into a hangar and burst into flames after takeoff from a Dallas area [Read More…]

Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. embassy in Moscow has accused Russia of preventing a doctor from visiting Paul Whelan in the jail where the former Marine has been held for months on espionage [Read More…]

iStock(ADDISON, Texas) — A small two-engine plane went down in a fiery crash on Sunday morning, killing all 10 people on board. The aircraft had just taken off from the Addison Airport, north of Dallas, [Read More…]