Listen Live

 
 

Month: July 2024

Americans coast-to-coast sweat out historic heat wave

Americans coast-to-coast sweat out historic heat wave

ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 150 million people were under heat alerts coast-to-coast Wednesday afternoon as temperatures soared into the triple-digits in the West and hot, humid weather in the East and South made it feel like it was over 100 degrees. A historic heat wave that has […]

Read More

JetBlue passenger alleges severe burns due to ‘scalding hot’ tea served amid turbulence

JetBlue passenger alleges severe burns due to ‘scalding hot’ tea served amid turbulence

Image Source/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A passenger is seeking $1.5 million in damages from JetBlue after she allegedly sustained severe burns from “scalding hot” tea served during a period of turbulence, according to a complaint. According to the complaint, filed on June 24, the “dangerously hot cup of tea” […]

Read More

US men’s national soccer coach Gregg Berhalter fired

US men’s national soccer coach Gregg Berhalter fired

Gregg Berhalter, head coach of the United States, during the National Anthem before the CONMEBOL Copa America group C match between the United States and Uruguay at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on July 1, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Bill Barrett/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) (NEW YORK) — U.S. […]

Read More

Giuliani’s bankruptcy case appears likely to be dismissed, opening door for collection of damages

Giuliani’s bankruptcy case appears likely to be dismissed, opening door for collection of damages

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A federal bankruptcy court judge said on Wednesday he is leaning toward dismissing Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case after two former Georgia election workers Giuliani defamed agreed it would be the best way for them to collect at least part of a $148 million judgment against […]

Read More

Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ trial: Actor’s culpability in shooting disputed in opening statements

Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ trial: Actor’s culpability in shooting disputed in opening statements

Ross D. Franklin – Pool/Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — Prosecutors argued Alec Baldwin behaved recklessly and “violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety” during the filming of “Rust,” while the defense said the actor “committed no crime” in the “unspeakable tragedy,” during opening statements Wednesday in the manslaughter trial […]

Read More

High-ranking MS-13 gang member pleads guilty to 8 murders, including Long Island teen girls

High-ranking MS-13 gang member pleads guilty to 8 murders, including Long Island teen girls

WABC (CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.) — Alexi Saenz, a high-ranking member of the MS-13 gang, pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip, New York, on Wednesday to racketeering charges stemming from eight murders. He faces between 40 and 70 years in prison as part of a plea agreement, prosecutors said. […]

Read More

Missing pastor found dead in submerged car after a week

Missing pastor found dead in submerged car after a week

ABC News/WLS (CHICAGO) — A missing pastor was found dead in his car in the Des Plaines River, near Chicago, Tuesday night after he had been missing for a week, according to officials. Warren Beard, 53, was last heard from on July 2 and was last seen in Joliet, Illinois, […]

Read More

2-year-old Arizona girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat: Police

2-year-old Arizona girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat: Police

kali9/Getty Images (MARANA, Ariz.) — A 2-year-old girl has died after her father left her in a hot car in Arizona, where residents are enduring triple-digit temperatures, according to authorities. The father was running errands with his daughter, and when he returned home Tuesday afternoon, he allegedly knowingly left the […]

Read More

NASA astronauts stuck on ISS say they feel ‘confident’ Boeing’s Starliner can bring them home

NASA astronauts stuck on ISS say they feel ‘confident’ Boeing’s Starliner can bring them home

Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The NASA astronauts who were aboard the first crewed flight into space on Boeing’s Starliner said they are “confident” the spacecraft can get them home safely. Flight commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore, 61, a former U.S. Navy captain, and Sunita Williams, 58, a […]

Read More

Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter pleads guilty to illegal betting

Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter pleads guilty to illegal betting

Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a gambling scheme that cost him his NBA career. Porter, in a dark suit and tie, said “guilty” when asked by a […]

Read More