Month: August 2019

nazarethman/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) — Thousands of Americans and Mexicans united in a torrent of tears in an El Paso, Texas baseball stadium Wednesday for a vigil honoring the 31 victims who perished in back-to-back mass [Read More…]

rommma/iStock(NEW YORK) — The scorching temperatures of July this year broke records, making it the hottest month ever recorded on Earth in 140 years, scientists said Thursday. The average global temperature was 1.71 degrees above [Read More…]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — A dramatic, hours-long shootout and standoff between a gunman and Philadelphia police ended overnight with the suspect in custody and all six officers who were shot surviving. The North Philadelphia neighborhood of Tioga-Nicetown [Read More…]

amphotora/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A Washington, D.C., police officer was charged with assault on Wednesday, accused of inappropriately touching coworkers on at least three separate occasions. Metropolitan Police Department officer Robert Anderson, a 29-year veteran with the [Read More…]

D-Keine/iStock(NEW YORK) — With growing fears of a recession after the worst trading day of 2019 on Wall Street, here’s what you need to know about how to protect your money. ABC News Chief Business, [Read More…]

narvikk/iStock(NEW YORK) — U.S. stock markets opened mostly flat on Thursday, in essence holding most of Wednesday’s steep losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading sideways in early trade, up 0.063% to 25,495.35 shortly [Read More…]

golibo/iStock(NEW YORK) — Rent The Runway has led the charge when it comes to borrowing your wardrobe through a subscription service. Now, multiple companies, as well as major retailers, are following suit, making fashion more [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…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The Southwest likely will roast again on Thursday as severe weather settles into the Plains. Storms on Wednesday moved through the western Plains and Southeast, delivering damaging winds, large hail and [Read More…]

:kutaytanir/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Loujain al Hathloul, who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since May 2018 for her work promoting women’s rights in the kingdom, including defying the previous ban on women driving, has turned down [Read More…]

danielfela/iStock(CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.) — Chaos broke out at the protest of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Rhode Island late Wednesday when a truck tried to drive through protesters and corrections officers ended up [Read More…]

FILE photo. Fotokot197/iStock(MOSCOW) — A Russian jet carrying 226 passengers and seven crew members made an emergency landing in the middle of a corn field near Moscow after colliding with birds shortly after takeoff. Ural [Read More…]

WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) — A gunman unleashed a hail of bullets at Philadelphia police officers Wednesday afternoon, wounding six and sending cops diving for cover behind cars, before barricading himself in a building with several hostages. The [Read More…]

macky_ch/iStock(MOSCOW) — The explosion of a suspected Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile last week has caused a lot of confusion and anxiety, fueled in part by Russian authorities’ continuing secrecy around the accident. Russia has provided [Read More…]

Kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) — Leaders of the Catholic Church in New York are facing a “dark time” in the wake of a passage of a law that now allows alleged victims of child sexual abuse to [Read More…]