Willie B. Thomas/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The nation’s second-largest school district has voted to ban cellphone and social media use for over 429,000 K-12 students during school days. The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed the ban by a vote of 5 to 2 on Tuesday morning, one […]
seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case will kick off a series of hearings this week on motions to dismiss the case. One of the hearings is expected to focus on a legal theory pushed by conservative legal […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Massachusetts’ 911 system has been restored following a statewide outage Tuesday afternoon, according to the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety. “The public may now resume calling 911 for emergencies,” the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety said. “The State 911 Department continues to investigate the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The potential first tropical storm of the season is expected to bring heavy rain and dangerous flooding to Texas this week. The tropical system could strengthen to Tropical Storm Alberto on Tuesday or Wednesday before making landfall in Mexico, just south of Texas. The storm […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A 911 outage is impacting the entire state of Massachusetts Tuesday afternoon, according to Boston police. “The statewide 911 system is down — calls are not going through,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said at a news conference. “We’ve been in touch with the state and all […]
NYPD (NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park last week, according to police. Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, a 25-year-old Ecuadorian migrant who entered the U.S. illegally in June 2021, was picked up overnight after community members recognized […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York’s highest court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to the limited gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump by the judge who oversaw his criminal hush money trial. The New York Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s appeal “upon the […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — The shooter who killed five and injured over a dozen more at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022 accepted a plea deal Tuesday in connection with federal hate crimes charges and was given 55 concurrent life sentences. Anderson Lee Aldrich […]
The exterior of the Boeing Company headquarters is seen on March 25, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Boeing CEO David Calhoun apologized to the families of victims of previous plane crashes involving the company’s planes, including the 737 Max, before being grilled by senators Tuesday during […]
Studio One-One/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just as firefighters were getting the upper hand on multiple major wildfires burning across California, two new blazes broke out and rapidly spread overnight, dealing additional challenges to the crews battling the flames, authorities said. In what fire officials called an unusually early start […]
