Month: August 2019

NatanaelGinting/iStock(SHENZHEN, China) — It was like any other Saturday evening on the promenade outside the large stadium in Shenzhen, a large Chinese city on the bay that forms the northwestern border of Hong Kong. The [Read More…]

MicroStockHub/iStock(MOSCOW) — Two U.S. senators say that they were denied visas as part of an official delegation to Russia for talks with their counterparts in the country’s parliament. Amid tensions over arms control, human rights, [Read More…]

melis82/iStock(LONDON) — The U.K. government is set to ask the queen to suspend Parliament, which will, in effect, stop opposition lawmakers from blocking Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly dodged questions as to whether [Read More…]

LindaParton/iStock(FLINT, Mich.) — Just after dawn, Michigan Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich wakes up. Bleary-eyed, he shuffles downstairs to the kitchen. He can already hear his 4-year-old son, Jake, softly stirring in his room. Jake [Read More…]

ChristopherBernard/iStock(ORLAND PARK, Ill.) — A 2-year-old girl died in Illinois on Tuesday after a shop display fell and hit her head, police said. Paramedics arrived on scene and performed medical treatments on the injured toddler [Read More…]

vmargineanu/iStock(KEELING, Va.) — A teenage suspect in a triple murder in Virginia was taken into custody after fleeing from authorities while naked. Matthew Bernard, 18, of Keeling, Virginia, was arrested on three counts of first-degree [Read More…]

JasonDoiy/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — A Los Angeles man has surrendered to the FBI after he allegedly collected $14 million in a scam from investors for a fraudulent Netflix feature film involving several notable Hollywood figures. Adam [Read More…]

melis82/iStock(LONDON) — The U.K. government is set to ask the queen to suspend Parliament in order to stop opposition lawmakers from blocking Brexit, according to reports in the British media. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has [Read More…]

Kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) — Multiple alleged victims of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shared their stories and called for federal prosecutors to continue their investigation and bring his co-conspirators “to justice” in [Read More…]

Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(BOSTON) — Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband walked into Boston federal court holding hands and put up a “united front” on Tuesday as they told a judge they are waiving their right to [Read More…]

JHVEPhoto/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — A former Google engineer spent months downloading Google’s secret files on self-driving cars before he abruptly quit the company in 2016 to run Uber’s autonomous vehicle program, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. [Read More…]