Bettmann via Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is drawing new attention to the infamous prison. Alcatraz closed its doors as a federal prison 60 years ago […]
Police officers are seen on the University of Washington campus during an occupation of a building by protesters, in this screengrab from a video supplied by Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return UW on March 5, 2025. (Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return UW) (SEATTLE) — More than […]
An undated photo found by Vernon, Connecticut, police on the devices of a 17-year-old girl associated with the online network 764 shows a Barbie Doll marked with “764.” (Vernon Police Department) (WASHINGTON) — FBI officials say they are growing increasingly concerned about a loose network of violent predators who befriend […]
Sen. Van Hollen’s Office via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Justice has been quietly investigating a Tennessee traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile court battle over his mistaken deportation from Maryland to El Salvador by the […]
Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (JEROME, Fla.) — A man and a dog were killed in a suspected bear attack in Florida, officials said. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call shortly after 7 a.m. Monday involving a “bear encounter.” The incident was reported […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the long-delayed REAL ID requirement finally takes effect this Wednesday, Americans are flooding DMV offices across the country as they try to comply with the new federal standards for identification required for domestic air travel. The REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005 […]
(SAN DIEGO) — Three dead bodies and four survivors in need of medical care were discovered on a panga boat that washed ashore near San Diego on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Encinitas Fire Department. Nine people are unaccounted for, the Coast Guard said. The […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SAUK COUNTY, Wis.) — A Wisconsin woman who was missing for over 60 years was discovered to be “alive and well,” according to the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office. Audrey Backeberg, who was reported missing on July 7, 1962, was found by detectives outside the state of Wisconsin, […]
The Dixon Family (ATLANTA) — A 10-year-old girl was struck and killed by a tree that fell on her Atlanta home when severe storms blew through the city this weekend, officials said. Six people lived in the house where the tree crashed down around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to Atlanta […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A severe weather threat looms across the south-central U.S. on Monday, from western New Mexico to Louisiana, with 7 million people under flood watches due to potentially heavy rainfall. There were 50 storm reports — including damaging wind and hail — reported across 10 states […]
