Google(NEW YORK) — The room being used at one of the so-called “tender age” facilities designated to house immigrant children looked “home-y” but something seemed wrong. Colleen Kraft, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told ABC News that a concerned pediatrician working near the border called her to […]
John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Their names are a mystery and in some cases, their faces are too. But the stories of the children caught in the crosshairs of the “zero tolerance” policy at the border are resonating with people across the country. Here are some of the stories of […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — One thing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and immigration activists can agree on is that there is a huge backlog of immigration court cases at the southern border. And they’ve been increasing since 2016, according to Syracuse University’s TRAC Immigration database, which monitors U.S. federal immigration enforcement. As of […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — There were nearly 150 damaging storm reports Tuesday from Washington, D.C., to Denver, including five reported tornadoes, with many of the areas looking at more rain and possible flooding on Wednesday. Some of the worst damage on Tuesday was reported in Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas, where […]
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office(VANCLEAVE, Miss.) — A mother in southern Mississippi has been charged with second-degree murder after her 10-month-old son was left in a hot car and died, authorities said. The child, Kash Barhonovich, died last Thursday after being left in his mother’s parked car for an unknown length […]
iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Pennsylvania police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy near Pittsburgh Tuesday night after pulling over a vehicle believed to have been connected to an earlier shooting incident, authorities said Wednesday. Officials have not released the names of anyone involved. The Allegheny County Police Department reported receiving multiple 911 […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BRIDGEWATER, Mass.) — A Massachusetts woman is opening up about how she managed to fight off a convicted rapist who attacked her over the weekend and tried to force her into his car. The woman, who asked not to be identified, spoke out Wednesday in an interview with ABC’s Good […]
Family Photo(ROCKAWAY, N.J.) — The family of a 12-year-old who committed suicide has filed a lawsuit against the young girl’s school district, claiming it failed to protect her from months of intense bullying. Mallory Grossman, a sixth-grader at Copeland Middle School in Rockaway, New Jersey, killed herself on June 14, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) — In a joint statement on Monday, Minneapolis’ mayor and police chief sought an independent investigation into claims that city police asked emergency medical responders to sedate dozens of criminal suspects and others over the past three years with the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SILICON VALLEY) — In a little over three days, a fundraising campaign on Facebook has topped $6 million to help reunite undocumented families split up by the U.S. government at the Mexico border. The fundraiser page, “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” was launched on Saturday by three Facebook […]
