AndreyPopov/iStock(NEW YORK) — Dozens of immigration courts remain shuttered across the country this week and tens of thousands of hearings were canceled because of the ongoing government shutdown, a situation that is likely to add hundreds of cases to an already crushing backlog, according to analysts. It’s an ironic twist […]
Sherry Smith/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has extended the U.S. military’s support mission along the southwestern border through the end of September. Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan also approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security that officials have said will place 116 miles of concertina wire between ports of […]
WPVI-TV(LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — The suspect who allegedly took two women hostage at a UPS facility in southern New Jersey Monday morning died on the scene, according to officials. A shooting occurred outside the UPS facility in Logan Township Monday around 8:45 a.m., after authorities received reports of a man […]
Courtesy Lindsey Smith (BARRON, Wisc.) — The suspect charged in the kidnapping of Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs and killing her parents in cold blood confessed to investigators that he targeted the 13-year-old after seeing her board her school bus and decided “he knew that was the girl he was going […]
vmargineanu/iStock(LIVE OAK, Fla.) — Three young children have died after they became trapped in a freezer in Florida, the local sheriff said. The deadly incident unfolded Sunday as the children — ages 1, 4 and 6 — were playing outside in their yard, the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. […]
Courtesy Jennifer Smith(NEW YORK) — Robert Naiberg said he could barely speak when police called to tell him that his granddaughter, 13-year-old Jayme Closs, had been found. “I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t talk,” Naiberg said on ABC News’ Good Morning America Monday. “I was the first one she gave a […]
DONGSEON_KIM/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district have announced they’re going on strike Monday. United Teachers Los Angeles said negotiations have stalled and that the union didn’t receive a new contract proposal over the weekend. This comes after the strike was delayed from Jan. 10 because of […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The major winter storm that dumped snow from the Rockies all the way to North Carolina and parts of the Northeast is heading for the Atlantic Ocean. Some areas saw 10 to 20 inches, while North Carolina also got half an inch of ice. The storm […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Whenever Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger sees the Hudson River and the skyline of Manhattan, he says his thoughts rewind to the bitterly cold day of Jan. 15, 2009, when he and copilot Jeff Skiles saved themselves and 153 passengers and crew members by pulling off one […]
kali9/iStock (MURRAY, Utah.) — Authorities are searching for multiple suspects in a Utah mall shooting that injured two people. The shooting happened at the Fashion Place mall in Murray, a spokesperson for the Murray Police Department told ABC News. The victims were a male and female in their early 20s, […]
