This handout image taken and released by the Mount Vernon Fire Department shows rescue vehicles on Interstate 75 during an active shooter incident near London, Ky., Sept. 7, 2024. — Mount Vernon Fire Department (LONDON, Ky.) — Joseph A. Couch, the man authorities have named as a suspect in a […]
Hand crews clear a defense line during severe temperatures in California as the Line Fire burns near Mentone, California, Sept. 8, 2024. — David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The wildfire tearing through the foothills of Southern California’s San Bernardino County is now endangering more than 36,000 structures, […]
An ABC News graphic shows the expected path of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — A tropical system churning in the southern Gulf of Mexico is forecast on Monday to become Tropical Storm Francine as it moves […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Monday released the results of a sweeping three-year investigation they say is the most detailed public accounting yet of the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that left behind hundreds of Americans and thousands of allies, some so desperate they clung to […]
Kali9/Getty Images (LONDON, Ky.) — An AR-15 rifle investigators believe was used in a Kentucky freeway shooting Saturday evening that left seven people injured and nine vehicles with bullet holes was found Sunday afternoon near the crime scene as a search for a person of interest continued, authorities said. The […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (JOPPA, Md.) — A 16-year-old student allegedly shot a 15-year-old boy during an “altercation” in the boys’ bathroom at Joppatowne High School in Joppa, Maryland, on Friday, authorities said. The 15-year-old was attended to by school nurses and the principal, and then airlifted to a trauma center […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case has delayed his sentencing from Sept. 18 until Nov. 26 — after the presidential election. The decision, issued in a court filing Friday, means Trump will not face consequences for falsifying business records […]
Booking photo of Apalachee High School shooting suspect, Colt Gray, released by the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office. — Barrow County Sheriff’s Office (WINDER, Ga.) — Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of opening fire at his Georgia high school, made his first court appearance on Friday, where the judge informed him […]
Jon Lovette/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Colleges and universities are seeing mixed results in the diversity of their incoming freshman classes after the Supreme Court set new limits on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. For example, the Yale University class of 2028 saw no difference from the […]
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the second year in a row, summer in the Northern Hemisphere ranked as the warmest on record with extreme heat bringing persistent, dangerously hot conditions across several continents, according to a new report by Copernicus, the European Union’s Climate Change Service. Summer […]
