ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin admitted to police that he pushed a man during a street parking dispute this month because he “stole my spot,” but the actor pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom Monday to charges he assaulted the victim. Following Baldwin’s brief appearance with his […]
ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) — When NASA’s InSight lander approaches Mars on Monday afternoon, it will finish one journey — through space — and launch on another: to go deeper into Mars. The mechanical three-legged, one-armed mining spacecraft is scheduled to land at 3 p.m. ET, capping off a trip that started seven […]
iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — More than 13,000 families were left without homes this Thanksgiving weekend in the wake of the devastating Camp Fire that ripped through Butte County in Northern California. On Sunday, the Camp Fire finally reached 100 percent containment, weeks after the blaze ignited. The death toll from that […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Airlines were forced to cancel or delay nearly 6,000 flights on Sunday as a dangerous winter storm blanketed parts of the Midwest with heavy snow. At least 1,265 U.S. flights were canceled and another 5,000 or so were delayed on the final day of the Thanksgiving holiday […]
Chicago Police Department(CHICAGO) — A young Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty while responding to a shooting at a hospital will be mourned by loved ones and law enforcement officers at a funeral Monday. Officer Samuel Jimenez was fatally shot in the neck while trying to protect […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — More than half of the approximately 87,000 women killed in 2017 died at the hands of intimate partners or family members, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Some 50,000 were killed globally by someone they knew, the organization […]
Courtesy Jamal Hinton(PHOENIX) — The Arizona grandmother who accidentally invited a teen to her Thanksgiving dinner — thinking it was her grandson — celebrated the holiday with that same teen again this year, for the third year in a row. The sweet holiday tradition began in 2016 when Wanda Dench, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A North Carolina state trooper delivered a baby — instead of a ticket — to a couple he caught speeding on the highway Saturday night. Sgt. Brian Maynard was parked on the shoulder of U.S. Route 64 near Wake County when he saw a light-colored van speeding […]
Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on Saturday was part of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment and on his third deployment to the country, according to U.S. Special Operations Command. Sgt. Leandro Jasso was wounded by small arms fire while conducting combat operations in the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — More than 30 million Americans in 15 states were under weather alerts on Sunday as hazardous weather conditions threatened one of the busiest travel days of the year. Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled across the Midwest, as major cities from Kansas City, Missouri, to Chicago […]
