Month: August 2019

Kameleon007/iStock(DAYTON, Ohio) — Authorities investigating Sunday’s mass shooting in Ohio have determined that the gunman had been exploring violent ideologies and the prospect of committing a mass shooting before he opened fire in Dayton. Dayton [Read More…]

Optimus Ride(NEW YORK) — Driverless cars are finally coming to New York. Sort of. Optimus Ride, a self-driving tech company, is launching a fleet of six cars at Brooklyn’s Navy Yard on Wednesday in a [Read More…]

twinsterphoto/iStock(WASHINGTON) — In a dramatic escalation of his administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has imposed a full embargo on the socialist president’s government. The executive order, signed late Monday, freezes [Read More…]

Disney/IMDb(BERLIN) — Once upon a time, there was a wealthy woman named Maria Sophia von Erthal. Born in 1725 in the castle of the Medieval German town of Lohr am Main, she was a baroness [Read More…]

Pezz453/iStock(DAYTON, Ohio) — The family and friends of the victims in the El Paso and Dayton shootings are grieving their loved ones who were among those shot to death over the weekend. Nearly 1,600 miles [Read More…]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(GILROY, Calif.) — The FBI on Tuesday said they will open a domestic terrorism investigation into the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting that left three people dead, officials said. The suspect, Santino William Legan, 19, intended [Read More…]

Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Toni Morrison, the renowned author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved and for being the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, [Read More…]

Maui Police Department(MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii) — The body of a hiker who had been missing for days was found over the weekend, police said. Craig Pitt, 35, was found dead Saturday at the base of [Read More…]

jenjen42/iStock(WASHINGTON) — After steep losses on Monday, world markets wobbled through escalations in the U.S.-China trade war on Tuesday as the White House played down investor reaction to the U.S. labeling China a currency manipulator [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(PAISLEY, Scotland) — One of the two United Airlines pilots who was arrested on suspected intoxication just before his flight departed appeared in court Tuesday, while the other has since been released, officials said. Glendon [Read More…]

Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Toni Morrison, the renowned author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved and for being the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, [Read More…]

Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Toni Morrison, the renowned author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved,” died Monday night, her publicist and family confirmed Tuesday. Morrison had been at the Montefiore [Read More…]

alexsl/iStock(NEW YORK) — U.S. markets opened slightly higher on Tuesday after posting their worst day of the year on Monday. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 0.71 percent or 182 points higher to [Read More…]