Jim Sugar/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite heavy opposition from environmental activists, a viral TikTok campaign and a campaign promise by President Joe Bien to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels, the federal government greenlighted a controversial oil drilling project on pristine Alaskan land on Monday. That decision won’t […]
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Puerto Rico shut out Israel in the World Baseball Classic Monday night, beating them 10-0 in eight innings. Four pitchers retired all 24 batters they faced, marking the competition’s first-ever combined perfect game. Puerto Rico will next face off against Dominican Republic on Wednesday […]
Freshman player J’Zavien Currence is shown during an interview with ABC News. (ABC News) (ROCK HILL, S.C.) — Friday night high school football games are an American tradition. But only one town — Rock Hill, South Carolina — calls itself “Football City.” That’s because the city of 75,000 says it […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Atlanta 6, Baltimore 5 Washington 7, Houston 6 Oakland 8, Colorado 7 LA Dodgers 11, Cleveland 4 Arizona 11, Texas 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 1, NY Yankees 0 Baltimore 11, Detroit 7 […]
Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five alleged members of a powerful Mexican cartel were charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of four Americans, and the killing of two of them, in the border city […]
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Attorneys for the family of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who was fatally shot by police during a sit-in protest against the upcoming Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, say an independent autopsy report found that Terán’s hands were raised during the fatal shooting. Terán, […]
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (HERMANN, Mo.) — A suspect accused of fatally shooting a police officer has surrendered outside of a Hermann, Missouri home, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP). The Missouri State Highway Patrol SWAT team took 35-year-old Kenneth Lee Simpson into custody Monday following the shooting in […]
Kali9/Getty Images (LEXINGTON, N.C.) — Law enforcement rescued a missing 13-year-old girl from a locked shed in Lexington, North Carolina, after federal authorities provided a tip about the missing minor. Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons said his office received a tip from an FBI Violent Crimes Task Force about a […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (DALLAS) — A pair of suspects were arrested in Dallas in connection with a quadruple shooting that left four people dead inside an apartment that allegedly stemmed from a custody dispute, according to police. Cops responded to the scene in northwest Dallas around 7 p.m. Sunday and […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of residents in the Northeast are bracing for a massive winter storm that will bring inclement weather to the region over multiple days. A coastal storm is expected to develop in the Northeast Monday night and transform into a nor’easter on Tuesday, forecasts from […]
