Getty Images – STOCK (WELLFLEET, Mass. ) — More than 80 dolphins are currently stranded on a beach near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The Atlantic whitesided dolphins are at the Great Island at the Herring River — also known at the “Gut” — which […]
Getty Images – STOCK (YULEE, Fla.) — A shark attacked a man in Florida, seriously injuring his arm, officials said. The attack unfolded around 11 a.m. Friday at West Rock near the port of Fernandina, which is north of Jacksonville near the Florida-Georgia border, Nassau County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Alicia […]
Alex Wichman/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homelessness advocates are condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling that an Oregon city’s ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside does not amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment under the Eighth Amendment. In 2013, the Grants Pass city council attempted to ban […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe storms ravaged the country from Montana to Florida on Thursday, with winds gusting to 91 mph in South Dakota and hail as large as golf balls in Montana. In Melbourne, Florida, a tornado ripped through a neighborhood, damaging homes. “Fortunately no one was injured,” […]
A gigantic fish measuring 6 feet long and weighing 220 pounds has been caught in the Hudson River in New York during an environmental survey, officials said. — NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NEW YORK) — A gigantic fish measuring 6 feet long and weighing 220 pounds has been caught […]
The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center is the first LGBTQ center in the National Park Service. — Courtesy of Stephen Kent Johnson (NEW YORK) — Mark Segal was 18 years old and had only lived in New York City for six weeks when he found himself at the center of […]
The historic bathhouse on Jacob Riis Beach is undergoing $50 million renovations that have stoked concerns about gentrification on the working class, queer beach. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — The summer season in New York City is informally marked each year by the hoisting of Pride flags on The […]
Feldhaar Christian / EyeEm/Getty Images (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing “fecal soup” after an agriculture-heavy region in Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of precipitation. Torrential rain began falling in the Midwest last week, prompting road closures, evacuation orders, helicopter […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas.) — Two people have been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, ABC Austin affiliate KVUE reported Thursday. Former Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted and booked into the Uvalde County jail, Sheriff […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas.) — Two people have been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, according to ABC Austin affiliate KVUE. The indictments charge two people with injury of a child by omission, the station reported Thursday. The identities of […]
