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Rideshare companies gearing up for a busy New Year’s Eve
Tero Vesalainen/iStock(NEW YORK) — Are you looking to make some extra cash fast to help offset all of those gifts you bought this holiday season? If so, you might want to consider signing up to [Read More…]

Take a sneak peek at the first-ever roller coaster at sea
Carnival Cruise Line(NEW YORK) — Just went you think cruise lines can’t get any more extreme, they go ahead and put a roller coaster on board. Behold the Bolt Ultimate Sea Coaster. It’s the first-ever [Read More…]

India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight
flowgraph/iStock(NEW YORK) — On the sixth anniversary of the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, which sparked mass protests against misogyny across the whole of India, a three-year-old girl was hospitalized after allegedly [Read More…]

Pence canceled North Korea human rights speech with Trump admin concerned about talks
Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images(WASHINGON) — Vice President Mike Pence was expected to give a speech on North Korea’s human rights abuses last week, adding firepower to an announcement of new sanctions and the release of a [Read More…]

The Marshall Islands: A nation that fears it’s on the brink of extinction
(ABC) The Marshall Island’s capital city of Majuro is only 300 feet wide in most places.(MAJURO, Marshall Islands) — The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of islands and atolls located between Hawaii and Australia, are [Read More…]

Tsunami in Indonesia kills hundreds; officials warn second giant sea wave is possible
Ed Wray/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Scores of people were killed and many more were injured or unaccounted for when a tsunami hit the island nation of Indonesia without warning Sunday following a volcanic eruption and [Read More…]

Tsunami in Indonesia kills at least 281; officials warn second giant sea wave is possible
Ed Wray/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Scores of people were killed and many more were injured or unaccounted for when a tsunami hit the island nation of Indonesia without warning Sunday following a volcanic eruption and [Read More…]

India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight
flowgraph/iStock(NEW YORK) — On the sixth anniversary of the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, which sparked mass protests against misogyny across the whole of India, a three-year-old girl was hospitalized after allegedly [Read More…]

Pence canceled North Korea human rights speech with Trump admin concerned about talks
Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images(WASHINGON) — Vice President Mike Pence was expected to give a speech on North Korea’s human rights abuses last week, adding firepower to an announcement of new sanctions and the release of a [Read More…]

The Marshall Islands: A nation that fears it’s on the brink of extinction
(ABC) The Marshall Island’s capital city of Majuro is only 300 feet wide in most places.(MAJURO, Marshall Islands) — The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of islands and atolls located between Hawaii and Australia, are [Read More…]

Tsunami in Indonesia kills at least 281, injures over 1,000 following volcanic eruption
Ed Wray/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Scores of people were killed and many more were injured or unaccounted for when a tsunami hit the island nation of Indonesia without warning Sunday following a volcanic eruption and [Read More…]

Evidence in case of missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth discovered in Idaho: Police
Woodland Park Police Department(DENVER) — The search for a missing Colorado mother who police suspect was killed by her fiancé has turned up evidence in Idaho, some 700 miles from her home, officials said. The [Read More…]

India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight
flowgraph/iStock(NEW YORK) — On the sixth anniversary of the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, which sparked mass protests against misogyny across the whole of India, a three-year-old girl was hospitalized after allegedly [Read More…]

Pence canceled North Korea human rights speech with Trump admin concerned about talks
Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images(WASHINGON) — Vice President Mike Pence was expected to give a speech on North Korea’s human rights abuses last week, adding firepower to an announcement of new sanctions and the release of a [Read More…]

The Marshall Islands: A nation that fears it’s on the brink of extinction
(ABC) The Marshall Island’s capital city of Majuro is only 300 feet wide in most places.(MAJURO, Marshall Islands) — The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of islands and atolls located between Hawaii and Australia, are [Read More…]

Tsunami in Indonesia kills at least 222, injures over 800 injured following volcanic eruption
Ed Wray/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Scores of people were killed and many more were injured or unaccounted for when a tsunami hit the island nation of Indonesia without warning Sunday following a volcanic eruption and [Read More…]

Pacific Northwest facing several rounds of rain, snow
ABC News(NEW YORK) — As the Northeast gets a break from unsettled weather — at least for the time being — attention turns to the Pacific Northwest. Radar and satellite imagery from Sunday morning shows [Read More…]

At least 200 dead as tsunami hits Indonesia following volcanic eruption
ABC(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Scores were left dead and hundreds more injured in Indonesia early Sunday as a tsunami hit the island nation following a volcanic eruption. The tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured [Read More…]

Mistletoe or mortgage payments? Gas or gifts? Fed workers face high anxiety over gov’t shutdown
Alex Edelman/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — They are janitors scrubbing toilets and maintenance workers polishing the majestic marble floors in many of Washington D.C.’s wide-ranging expanse of federal office buildings. They are security officers in some of [Read More…]

India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight
flowgraph/iStock(NEW YORK) — On the sixth anniversary of the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, which sparked mass protests against misogyny across the whole of India, a three-year-old girl was hospitalized after allegedly [Read More…]