Month: August 2019

narvikk/iStock(LONDON) — The U.K. government has looked to play down concerns about leaked documents that outlined preparations for Brexit, which included warnings about fuel, food and medicine shortages, as well as severe travel disruption and [Read More…]

Montgomery County Police Department(SILVER SPRING, Md.) — Police in Maryland are investigating why a newborn baby girl was left alone in the woods without so much as a diaper. The baby was rescued in Silver [Read More…]

Mitshu/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) — Two teachers in El Paso, Texas, who put out a call for people to send postcards to their students after a mass shooting at a local Walmart, have been inundated with [Read More…]

Montgomery County Police Department(SILVER SPRING, Md.) — Police in Maryland are investigating why a newborn baby girl was left alone in the woods without so much as a diaper. The baby was rescued in Silver [Read More…]

Trinity County Sheriffs Office(NEW YORK) — A Northern California hiker was found dead on Sunday after an intense three-day search, police said. Rescuers found the body of Daniel Komins late Sunday morning in a remote [Read More…]

D-Keine/iStock(NEW YORK) — Among 226 economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics, 34% said a recession would hit the U.S. in 2021, an increase from 25% who believed so in February. The new [Read More…]

Manjurul/iStock(LONDON) — The yearlong Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a third province, health officials said. Two new patients, a 24-year-old woman and her 7-month-old child, tested positive [Read More…]

Port Canaveral/Twitter(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A desperate search continued Sunday for two off-duty firefighters who never returned from a fishing trip off the eastern coast of Florida, officials said. Brian McCluney, a Jacksonville, Florida, firefighter, and [Read More…]

iStock(HONG KONG) — Tens of thousands of protesters defied a rainstorm and the threat of more clashes with police on Sunday in one of the biggest pro-democracy demonstrations yet in Hong Kong. Demonstrators, whom police [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A stalled weather system that has been bringing rain to parts of the Southeast will begin to slide northward over the next day bringing with it pop up thunderstorms and heavy [Read More…]

Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) — An explosion at a wedding hall in the city of Kabul has killed 63 people and wounded 182, according Nasrat Rahimi, spokesperson for the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Affairs. The [Read More…]

Mahoning County Jail(NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio) — An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown. James Reardon Jr., 20, has been charged with telecommunications harassment and [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed into a home in upstate New York on Saturday. A person on the plane was killed as well as one person on [Read More…]

iStock(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Thirteen people were arrested and six were injured, as over 1,000 right-wing demonstrators and counter-protesters descended on downtown Portland on Saturday, police said. There were “at least 13 arrests,” in six hours, [Read More…]