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iStock/Thinkstock(SANTA CLARA, Calif.) — Santa Clara County Fire Chief, Anthony Bowden, said fire teams were hampered in their work battling the recent California wildfires by Verizon’s intentional slowdown of data, despite the fact that the [Read More…]

ABC News(MAE SAI, Thailand) — Sitting on an ornate carpet in a Thailand temple on Wednesday, a golden Buddha staring over their shoulders, the 12 young soccer players and their coach beamed with smiles and [Read More…]

(HONOLULU) — Hurricane Lane is taking aim at Hawaii as a Category 4 storm with fierce winds of up to 155 mph. The storm had reached Category 5 level, but weakened early Wednesday. A hurricane [Read More…]

Sara D. Davis/Getty Images(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — The students of the University of North Carolina may have torn down a Confederate statue from their campus, but a new vote by a state commission means that [Read More…]

(HONOLULU) — Hurricane Lane is taking aim at Hawaii as a Category 4 storm with fierce winds of up to 155 mph. The storm had reached Category 5 level, but weakened early Wednesday. A hurricane [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Slain jogger Mollie Tibbetts and her alleged killer lived in the same rural Iowa town but it’s unclear whether they knew each other, investigators say. Either way, “there was [Read More…]

Awakening/Getty Images(GENOA, Italy) — The toll-road operator that manages a highway bridge that collapsed in northwest Italy has approved more than half a billion dollars in initial funding to help those affected by the disaster [Read More…]

(HONOLULU) — Hurricane Lane is taking aim at Hawaii as a Category 4 storm with fierce winds of up to 155 mph. The storm had reached Category 5 level, but weakened early Wednesday. A hurricane [Read More…]

WLS-TV(CHICAGO) — Two brothers — just 2 and 4 years old — are dead after they were found unresponsive in a river, authorities said. The incident unfolded when concerned witnesses called 911 at the Kankakee [Read More…]

Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images(DUBLIN) — Pope Francis is set to visit Ireland in the first papal visit there in almost 40 years, but he is expected to come under pressure there from [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ARLINGTON, Va.) — Officials are responding to a bomb threat at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. “Arlington National Cemetery officials and [Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall] emergency services are currently responding to a bomb threat to [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio State University is creating a new office dedicated to handling gender-based harassment in the wake of several misconduct scandals and a federal investigation into how the school addresses claims of sexual [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — The family of a homeless man shot and killed on Los Angeles’ famous Skid Row will receive $1.9 million after the city came to a settlement agreement on Tuesday. Charly Keunang, 42, [Read More…]

(HONOLULU, Hawaii) — Hurricane Lane is a Category 5 hurricane on Wednesday morning with winds of 160 mph. A hurricane warning has been issued for the Big Island, including Hilo, and hurricane watches are in [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Yarrabee Farms, the Iowa farm that employed the suspect charged with killing Mollie Tibbetts, defended its vetting of Cristhian Bahena Rivera late Tuesday. The farm says Rivera passed the [Read More…]

Facebook(NEW YORK) — Facebook said on Tuesday it’s “removed multiple pages, groups and accounts” linked to “inauthentic behavior” on its platforms, including actions that originated in Russia and in Iran. “These were distinct campaigns and [Read More…]

Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — A first-degree murder charge was filed on Tuesday against a young man in the case of missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said Tuesday. The suspect, 24-year-old Cristhian [Read More…]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — A plane made a successful emergency landing in New York after blowing two tires during takeoff at Teterboro airport in New Jersey, authorities said. Sixteen people are on board the aircraft, according [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker is assessed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, according to a U.S. official. Ibrahim al-Asiri, a 36-year-old Saudi national, was considered one of the [Read More…]

Costa Mesa Police Department(LOS ANGELES) — Multiple suspects are in custody after allegedly robbing a string of Apple stores in California, ABC-owned station KABC-TV reported. A group of customers helped stop one alleged robbery at [Read More…]