Month: August 2019

WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) — Three people aboard a small plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in a residential neighborhood outside Philadelphia, according to authorities. Police in Upper Moreland Township said that at around 6:20 a.m. on [Read More…]

cmannphoto/iStock(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) — Sorrow and outrage overwhelmed mourners gathered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to welcome home and bid farewell to a beloved school principal who was one of the 22 people killed while shopping [Read More…]

hidesy/iStock(LONDON) — New legislation that would decriminalize abortion in New Zealand passed its first reading in the Parliament with 94 votes to 23 Thursday. The legislation, which was announced on Monday by the Justice Minister [Read More…]

MikeMareen/iStock(SILVER SPRING, Md.) — Hurricane activity is expected to increase in the Atlantic due to favorable oceanic and atmospheric patterns now that El Nino has ended in the Pacific, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [Read More…]

anouchka/iStock(NEW YORK) — Equinox and SoulCycle responded to calls for members to cancel their memberships on Wednesday over their owner’s plans to host a mega-fundraiser for President Donald Trump. Equinox Fitness, which operates its namesake [Read More…]

ViewApart/iStock(NEW YORK) — More than 120 of the biggest names in fashion have signed an open letter to Victoria’s Secret, expressing their “concern for the safety and wellbeing of the models and young women who [Read More…]

krungchingpixs/iStock(NEW YORK) — About one-quarter of all non-ice land on the planet has been subjected to “human-induced degradation,” with soil eroding up to 100 times faster than it forms and many natural resources being exploited [Read More…]

LisaValder/iStock(NEW YORK) — Seventeen countries — home to 25% of the global population — are facing “extremely high” water stress, according to the The World Resources Institute, a research non-profit. Several drought-stricken places around the [Read More…]

BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(NEW YORK) — Roughly 680 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday, marking what officials are calling the largest single-state immigration enforcement in history. The operations took place at seven work sites — all [Read More…]

Rouzes/iStock(ALLEN, Texas) — The El Paso, Texas shooting suspect’s mother called the Allen Police Department weeks before the shooting because she was concerned about her son owning an “AK”-type firearm, lawyers for the family told [Read More…]

KABC-TV(GARDEN GROVE, Calif.) — Four people are dead and two others wounded after a Southern California man went on a violent stabbing spree Wednesday evening. A 33-year-old man is in custody for the string of [Read More…]

Raghu_Ramaswamy/iStock(NEW YORK) — More than 100 child sex trafficking victims were rescued across the U.S. thanks to a month-long FBI operation, authorities said. In a crackdown that involved more than 400 law enforcement agencies, federal [Read More…]

Tennessee Department of Corrections(HENNING, Tenn.) — Police in Tennessee have issued a Blue Alert for an escaped inmate who is a person of interest in the homicide of a prison official. Curtis Ray Watson escaped [Read More…]