Month: September 2019

COMiCZ/iStock(MILLVILLE, N.J.) — They were in search of love online – instead, they were scammed out of $2 million. A New Jersey man was arrested Wednesday for defrauding more than 30 victims after wooing them [Read More…]

jetcityimage/iStock(NEW YORK) — Last December, a woman named Kim was out celebrating a friend’s graduation from nursing school and her own 25th birthday. She called a Lyft to ensure “a responsible and safe way home.” [Read More…]

DorSteffen/iStock(NEW YORK) — Pope Francis acknowledged growing criticism of him from the conservative right-wing of the United State Catholic Church on Wednesday, while speaking with reporters aboard the papal plane. While headed to Mozambique, the [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Dorian has killed at least 20 in the Bahamas, as well as an elderly man in North Carolina, as the storm looms close to the Southeast coast. Dorian, now a [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Dorian has killed at least seven in the Bahamas, as well as an elderly man in North Carolina, as the storm looms close to the Southeast coast. Dorian, now a [Read More…]

(Credit: Mariah Tiffany) Chanel Miller’s rape case became U.S. news in 2016 when she read a statement at the sentencing of Brock Turner. Turner, a Stanford student, was convicted in the assault but given just [Read More…]

RichLegg/iStock(NEW YORK) — A New York City federal judge ordered an “expedited” private review of sealed files from an earlier lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein in response to a news organization’s effort to see the [Read More…]

(Credit: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) Nalani Johnson in an undated photo. (BLAIRSVILLE, Pa.) — The toddler who went missing after a ride-share driver claimed her family sold her for $10,000 has been [Read More…]

melis82/iStock(LONDON) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed to gain enough parliamentary support to hold an early national election on October 15. SEE FOOTAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS The vote came after Parliament voted [Read More…]

melis82/iStock(LONDON) —  The U.K. Parliament has voted to rule out a no-deal Brexit in defiance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who now says a general election is the only way out of the country’s deepening [Read More…]

P_Wei/iStock(NEW YORK) — Google and YouTube will pay a record-setting fine of $170 million to settle allegations that they collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent. The FTC and the New York Attorney [Read More…]

LewisTsePuiLung/iStock(HONG KONG) — Almost three months into Hong Kong’s worst political crisis since its return to Chinese control, the city’s embattled leader Carrie Lam agreed to formally withdraw the extradition bill that drove millions of [Read More…]

iStock/PhotosbyAndy(Ind.)—The search for a missing 10-year-old girl from Indiana came to a tragic end after her body was found in a shed behind her home and her stepmother arrested for her murder, officials said. Skylea [Read More…]