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10 dead after van hits pedestrians in Toronto, driver in custody: Police
CTV/ABC News(TORONTO) — Ten people were killed and 15 others injured after a white van rammed pedestrians in Toronto today, police said. The driver is under arrest, Toronto police told ABC News. The suspect was [Read More…]
Defense rests in Bill Cosby’s retrial
Michael Bryant-Pool/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — The defense team in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rested its case on Monday, paving the way for key closing arguments Tuesday. “You now have all [Read More…]
New royal baby follows in footsteps of siblings Prince George, Princess Charlotte with newborn accessory
Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images(LONDON) — When Prince William and Princess Kate’s newborn made his debut outside a London hospital, he did so in a shawl steeped in royal history. The baby, whose name has [Read More…]
Nine dead after van hits pedestrians in Toronto, driver in custody: Police
iStock/Thinkstock(TORONTO) — Nine people were killed and at least 16 others injured after a white van hit pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, on Monday, police said. The driver is under arrest, Toronto police told ABC News. [Read More…]
Waffle House shooting suspect captured after 4 slain
Metro Nashville Police Department(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The suspected gunman in the Waffle House shooting near Nashville, Tennessee, that left four dead was captured Monday afternoon, authorities said. Travis Reinking was taken into custody about 2 [Read More…]
Van hits pedestrians in Toronto, extent of injuries unclear: Police
iStock/Thinkstock(TORONTO) — A white van hit pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, Monday, injuring a possible eight to 10 people, police said. The extent of the injuries was not immediately clear, police said. “1:27 pm, police were [Read More…]
Woman says Customs fined her $500 for bringing apple given to her by Delta into US
ABCNews.com(MINNEAPOLIS) — United States Customs and Border Protection is not the apple of Crystal Tadlock’s eye. Tadlock told Fox affiliate KDVR she was on a Delta flight back from Paris headed to Minneapolis when flight [Read More…]
Queen Elizabeth’s 92nd birthday: Royal family pulls out all the stops
Andrew Parsons – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Royal Family paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth at a star-studded birthday party at Royal Albert Hall tonight — where the likes of Sting, Sir Tom Jones, Shaggy, [Read More…]
North Korea says it is suspending nuclear tests ahead of much-anticipated talks
iStock/Thinkstock(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared the country will be suspending its nuclear tests ahead of much-anticipated talks between the two Koreas next week, and the U.S. and North Korea [Read More…]
‘Obviously, Kim Jong Un has learned about public relations’ with suspension of nuclear tests: Senator
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said North Korea’s announcement that it is suspending nuclear testing shows that Kim Jong Un has “learned about public relations.” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., [Read More…]
Natalie Portman snubs $1 million award, blames Benjamin Netanyahu
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — Natalie Portman has drawn ire from her native Israel after declaring to boycott receiving a $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.” But the activist actress explained the rationale behind [Read More…]
Why the new $120K ZR1 sports car is a game changer for the Corvette
ABC News(DETROIT) — Drivers in Detroit got to see a rare phenomenon this winter: Corvettes trudging through the snowy and wet city streets alongside SUVs and trucks. The engineers behind the new ZR1 — billed [Read More…]
Cambridge researcher behind Facebook data breach speaks out
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher who collected information on millions of Americans through Facebook, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill was “misleading.” In a live [Read More…]
Passenger shot with stun gun, forcibly removed from plane after fight
ABCNews.com(MIAMI) — An unruly passenger was shot with a stun gun, arrested and forcibly removed from a flight Sunday evening in an incident fellow passengers caught on video. The Chicago-bound American Airlines plane sat at [Read More…]
Protesters say Starbucks’ ‘unconscious bias training’ isn’t enough
ABCNews.com(PHILADELPHIA) — Members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity rallied at a Starbucks in Philadelphia on Sunday after their fraternity brother, Rashon Nelson, was arrested there earlier this month in an incident the city’s mayor [Read More…]
In new age of cyberwarfare, ‘ungoverned’ internet poses new threats to infrastructure, national security
iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) — The city of Atlanta was under attack. Not by terrorists with guns or knives or vehicles as weapons — but instead by hackers who in March disabled the city’s public services with ransomware. [Read More…]
Syracuse fraternity members removed from classes following racist video
ABCNews.com(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) — Syracuse University removed more than a dozen Theta Tau fraternity members from classes on Sunday after video emerged showing members participating in racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic skits, according to to school officials. [Read More…]
Gunman on the run after killing four people at a Waffle House near Nashville
Nashville Police Department(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Four people were killed and two others critically injured when a man naked from the waist down and wielding an AR-15 assault-style rifle opened fire at a Waffle House in [Read More…]
Porn star says Stormy Daniels telling the truth about alleged Trump threat
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Jessica Drake, an adult-film star who claims she refused a $10,000 offer to have sex with Donald Trump after meeting him at a Lake Tahoe golf event in 2006, says Stormy [Read More…]
British royals Princess Kate, Prince William set to welcome 3rd child
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince William and Princess Kate are set to become the parents of three children. Kate, 36, entered labor with her third child Monday, Kensington Palace announced. The palace announced on Twitter [Read More…]