Ricardo Castrodad via U.S. Coast Guard (SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search for a man who fell off a 70-foot cliff in Puerto Rico after a dive team recovered his body on Monday, according to Coast Guard officials. The Puerto Rico Emergency Bureau […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Mass shootings have hit a record pace so far this year, with 49 in January alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Over the weekend, three women were fatally shot, and four others were injured near Beverly Hills. It was the sixth mass shooting in California […]
Grants Pass Police Department (GRANTS PASS, Ore.) — A manhunt is underway in Oregon for a man accused of torturing a woman who authorities believe uses dating apps to find victims or people to help him evade police. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is wanted by the Grants Pass Police Department […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (LAKELAND, Fla.) — A mass shooting in Lakeland, Florida on Monday has left 11 people wounded, the Lakeland Police Department announced. According to police, two victims are critically injured and nine face non-life-threatening injuries. “One is in surgery and the other is either in surgery or headed to […]
Mike Coppola/Getty Images for 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala (SANTA FE, N.M.) — Involuntary manslaughter charges were formally filed Tuesday against actor Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust.” Both Baldwin and the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, have […]
Allison Dinner/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Memphis, Tennessee, to attend Tyre Nichols’ funeral on Wednesday. Nichols family attorney Ben Crump said Nichols’ parents spoke with Harris on the phone for over 30 minutes. Harris and Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, “spoke exclusively, and […]
Yiming Chen/Getty Images (PROVIDENCE, R.I.) — Many U.S. cities are attempting to establish a reparations program in an effort to rectify economic disparity borne of slavery, and Providence, Rhode Island, is among the places moving forward with a plan. But the city’s plan has drawn criticism over the extent to […]
File photo – mit4711/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Environmental Protection Agency has vetoed a controversial proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska. Pebble Limited Partnership, the company that would control the mine commonly known as Pebble Mine, argues it would bring economic opportunity to the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. […]
Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother was killed in the May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery story, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 6, 2022, urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the Grieving Families Act. – ABC News (ALBANY, N.Y.) — New York Gov. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jason Lewis, the man accused of shooting 13-year-old Karon Blake outside his home earlier this month, has been charged with second-degree murder while armed, according to Washington, D.C., police. Blake was shot and killed after an alleged interaction with Lewis, who said he saw Blake […]
