Month: October 2019

ABC News(DALLAS) — The mother of Botham Jean, the man shot and killed after former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger mistook his apartment for her own, delivered an emotional victim impact statement to the jury [Read More…]

iStock(NAPLES, Fla.) — It was an emotional day for hundreds of people who turned out to honor and say final farewells to a U.S. Army veteran many had never met. On Tuesday, friends and strangers [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — While Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren watched her 2020 candidacy steadily rise over the summer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was telling employees he would fight a legal battle before he let the company [Read More…]

iStoc(NEW YORK) — The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been sentenced to five years in prison on corruption charges, a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary said at a press conference on Tuesday, according to [Read More…]

iStock(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have decided to take legal action against a British tabloid for what they allege was an invasion of privacy. Harry, whose mother, Princess [Read More…]

iStock(ROCKWALL, Texas) — A church in North Texas is using donations to pay off $2.6 million in medical debt for 2,400 families in Dallas and Rockwall counties. Pastor Josh Howerton, from Lake Pointe Church, told [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has found himself center stage since the controversy broke out over his phone call with President Donald Trump, but on Tuesday he briefly got an unlikely co-star — [Read More…]

100pk/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration gave the initial green light for UPS to start delivering packages via drones on Tuesday. The UPS’s Flight Forward company was awarded an [Read More…]

Laoshi/iStock(HONG KONG) — An 18-year-old anti-government protester was shot by a police officer in Hong Kong on Tuesday afternoon as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on China’s National Day. Hong Kong police have [Read More…]

Nijat Nasibli/iStock(BOSTON) — A handful of e-cigarette shop owners in Massachusetts are suing over the state’s temporary ban on all vape products, arguing in court documents that it is unconstitutional, one of them telling ABC [Read More…]

Pontuse/iStock(NEW YORK) — At least 10 people were injured after a towering arch bridge collapsed over a bay in eastern Taiwan Tuesday, with authorities searching for more possible victims. Six of the 10 people injured [Read More…]

BCFC/iStock(DALLAS) — A Texas jury rejected former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer’s self-defense claims and convicted her on Tuesday of murder in the fatal 2018 shooting of an innocent man eating ice cream in his [Read More…]