ABC News (NEW YORK) — A relentless heat wave that has had a swath of the southwestern United States in its chokehold is stretching into the Midwest on its way to the Northeast this week. The National Weather Service has issued heat alerts that are in effect on Tuesday for […]
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The dangerous heat waves currently plaguing North America and Europe would be “virtually impossible” without anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change, according to a new report. Intense weeks-long heat waves have been continuously breaking heat records on both continents, with no relief in sight. […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Human remains were found inside three separate suitcases on Friday in Florida, according to law enforcement officials seeking information related to the gruesome discovery. The Delray Beach Police Department responded to a 911 call from a person who said they saw something strange in […]
Chef Cue / 500px/Getty Images (SWANSBORO, N.C.) — Make way for the ducks of Swansboro, North Carolina. The town’s population of Muscovy ducks has “exponentially multiplied” since last year, and hundreds have taken up residence in the town’s downtown area, according to Swansboro Mayor John Davis. The insurgency of ducks […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Toronto 6, LA Dodgers 3 (11) Detroit 5, San Francisco 1 Baltimore 3, Philadelphia 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 5, Cleveland 3 Minnesota 4, Seattle 3 Houston 10, Texas 9 NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado 10, […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Robert Hadden, the former Columbia University gynecologist who prosecutors said “abused his position of power to assault patient after patient, year after year,” is slated to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, but a federal court judge is mulling a request from his […]
Space Telescope Science Institut/ESA/NASA (NEW YORK) — A “swarm of boulders” was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon […]
SPOKANE, Wash.-Monday, four Weber State football players were named to the All-Big Sky Conference preseason team during Big Sky Kickoff at Spokane, Wash. They are as follows: Senior linebacker Winston Reid (who was named as the Big Sky preseason defensive player of the year Sunday) Senior offensive lineman Noah Atagi […]
Ohio State Highway Police (CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio) — An Ohio K-9 officer has been put on administrative leave, and his dog placed in a kennel, following an incident this month in which the animal was captured on body-camera footage attacking a truck driver as he was surrendering to state troopers with […]
Google Maps (MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass.) — The body of a missing paddleboarder recovered from a pond in Martha’s Vineyard on Monday morning was an employee of former President Barack Obama, the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said. Divers for the MSP Underwater Recovery Unit retrieved the body of 45-year-old Tafari Campbell […]
