iStock/motortion (NEW YORK) — Seventeen people, including eight children, after dozens were injured in a fire at a Bronx apartment in New York City. Officials previously reported that 19 people — including nine children — had died in the fire, but the death toll was revised Monday. The victims were […]
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — The man who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the AR-15-style rifle he used as a 17-year-old to shoot three people, two fatally, during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, pleaded no contest on Monday to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Dominick Black’s attorney appeared in Kenosha […]
JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 837,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62.5% of the […]
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration’s plan to send 500 million at-home tests to Americans for free is an historic undertaking, but one that will take weeks or months to fully execute, recently released contracts and interviews with seven test manufacturers suggest. Contracts for the […]
Scott Heins/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An open door to an apartment unit where a space heater caught fire allowed the smoke to spread throughout all floors of a 19-story building in New York City on Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams told ABC News. At least 19 people, including nine children, […]
Ally Orr (BOISE, Idaho) — A college student who took action after a professor at her school stated that women should not be recruited into fields like engineering, medicine and law has now raised over $70,000 for a scholarship for women studying those fields. The Women in STEM, Medicine and […]
FDNY via Twitter At least 19 people are dead, including nine children, following a massive fire in New York City on Sunday, officials said. More than 200 firefighters responded to the scene of the five-alarm fire that originated Sunday morning in a duplex apartment on the third floor of a […]
Fairfax County Police Department (ALEXANDRIA, Virginia) — Virginia police believe they have found a fifth victim linked to an alleged serial killer dubbed the “shopping cart killer,” as authorities identified two others and continue to search for more. The update comes nearly a month after authorities announced that a suspect […]
Josefine Jandinger (SAN DIEGO, Calif.) — A sea lion managed to make its way onto a busy California highway Friday, before animal rescuers, first responders and a couple of good Samaritans were able to help get the stranded marine mammal to safety. Drivers came across the unusual sight Friday morning, […]
Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After two weeks in its cosmic nest, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spread its wings and will fly to the farthest regions of unknown space. Crews completed the final part of the satellite’s long-awaited deployment and unfolded both its mirrored wings, […]
