Month: August 2019

rommma/iStock(NEW YORK) — Scorching temperatures this year broke records, including July becoming the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, scientists said Thursday. The average global temperature in July was 1.71 degrees above the 20th century [Read More…]

FILE photo. wissanu01/iStock(LONDON) — The U.S. government has requested to take control of an Iranian oil tanker held in Gibraltar. The Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 has been held in Gibraltar since it was seized [Read More…]

Jobrestful/iStock(LONDON) — A new campaign to raise awareness about the perils of carrying knives in chicken shops across the United Kingdom has been accused of peddling stereotypes and “bordering on racist” by lawmakers and campaigners. [Read More…]

vmargineanu/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) — El Paso police are looking to identify a man they say heroically saved lives, including a baby, during this month’s Walmart massacre. The city’s police department posted a grainy surveillance image [Read More…]

vmargineanu/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) — El Paso police are looking to identify a man they say heroically saved lives, including a baby, during this month’s Walmart massacre. The city’s police department posted a grainy surveillance image [Read More…]

fpdress/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to reports that President Donald Trump had talked about the possibility of buying the territory. “Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest [Read More…]

NYPD(NEW YORK) — The New York Police Department (NYPD) Bomb Squad has deemed suspicious packages found at the Fulton Street subway station safe. NYPD Friday morning advised people to avoid the lower Manhattan subway station [Read More…]

MicroStockHub/iStock(WASHINGTON) — One day after blocking two congresswomen from visiting Israel, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has been approved to make a visit to her grandmother in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — but only as a [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — More record highs were recorded out West on Thursday — San Francisco hit 94 and Palm Springs touched 119 — raising the risk of wildfires. Several brush fires and wildfires already [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — More record highs were recorded out West on Thursday — San Francisco hit 94 and Palm Springs touched 119 — raising the risk of wildfires. Several brush fires and wildfires already [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — More record highs were recorded out West on Thursday — San Francisco hit 94 and Palm Springs touched 119 — raising the risk of wildfires. Several brush fires and wildfires already [Read More…]

Andrei Stanescu/iStock(BENTONVILLE, Ark.) — Since 22 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month, and another shooting at a Mississippi Walmart in July left two people [Read More…]

KFSN-TV(FRESNO, Calif.) — The family of the man who choked and died after competing in a taco-eating contest at a baseball game was left shocked that a night out at the ballpark turned into tragedy. [Read More…]

KFSN-TV(FRESNO, Calif.) — The family of the man who choked and died after competing in a taco-eating contest at a baseball game was left shocked that a night out at the ballpark turned into tragedy. [Read More…]

KFSN-TV(FRESNO, Calif.) — The family of the man who choked and died after competing in a taco-eating contest at a baseball game was left shocked that a night out at the ballpark turned into tragedy. [Read More…]

stockcam/iStock(FRESNO, Calif.) — Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl in California after she allegedly posted a threat on Snapchat saying she was going to commit a shooting at her high school on Thursday. The Fresno [Read More…]

Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(NEW YORK) — Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who sources say hanged himself in a New York City jail, sustained a broken hyoid bone, a city official with knowledge of the autopsy told ABC [Read More…]