Scott Olson/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Chicago officials canceled classes for hundreds of thousands of public school students on Wednesday after reaching an impasse with the city’s teachers union over whether in-person learning was safe during a wave of COVID-19 infections. City leadership, including Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, had asked teachers […]
Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group/Daily Times 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 827,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62% […]
(File photo) – Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A fire in a Philadelphia row house left at least 13 people killed, seven of whom were children, according to the Philadelphia Fire Department. Two others, including one child, were critically injured and have been transported to hospitals. At least […]
(File photo) – Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A fire in a Philadelphia row house Wednesday morning left at least 12 people dead, eight of whom were children, officials said. City officials revised the death toll Wednesday evening after the Philadelphia Fire Department initially reported during the recovery […]
(File photo) – Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — At least 13 people were killed in a row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News. “Preliminary information indicates companies arrived at 6:40 a.m. and found heavy fire coming from the […]
Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — By the end of day three of deliberations in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, the jury had already decided to find the fallen Theranos founder guilty of defrauding investors who had poured millions of dollars into the Silicon Valley […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Almost 80 million people across the United States are on alert this week for heavy snow, brutally cold temperatures, gusty winds and icy conditions. As of Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service has issued various advisories, alerts, watches and warnings for 32 states — from […]
San Antonio Police Department via Facebook (SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — An FBI dive team is assisting in the search for missing 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil, authorities said. The investigation has led the FBI’s underwater search and evidence response team to an area not previously searched, according to San Antonio Police […]
Aurora (Colo.) Police Department (AURORA, Colo.) — Taniya Freeman, 14, was found on Tuesday in Aurora, Colorado, after being reported missing over the weekend. A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said that she’s now home safe with her mother. Freeman’s father, Nigel Freeman, said the family had no additional […]
San Antonio Police Department via Facebook (SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — An FBI dive team has ended its search for missing 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil without finding any trace of the girl, authorities said Wednesday. A spokesperson with the San Antonio Police Department told ABC News in a statement Wednesday afternoon […]
