ABC News (MIAMI) — After Florida’s governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented. The new curriculum included instruction for middle school students that “slaves developed skills which, in […]
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — A Colombian migrant father reunited with his partner and 10-year-old daughter in Los Angeles after being apart for more than two weeks following their separation by U.S. border authorities in Texas. The couple, Ambar and Jaen, made the treacherous journey to seek asylum in the United […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, which is crawling through the Atlantic Ocean as a major Category 3 storm, is bringing dangerous rip currents and huge waves to the East Coast. Here’s what you need to know: Alerts for high surf and rip currents have been issued from Florida to […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fugitive who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison just days after being sentenced to life without parole in the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend was captured early Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police said. Danelo Cavalcante was captured at 8:14 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. He was […]
Bill Tompkins/Getty Images NEW YORK — A former Trader Joe’s employee is accusing the grocery chain of pregnancy discrimination and retaliation in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, alleging mistreatment and claiming that a change in the company’s health insurance policy […]
Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden on Wednesday filed suit against a former Trump White House aide over his alleged role in publishing online a trove of emails and embarrassing images purportedly belonging to the president’s son. The 13-page suit, filed in federal court in California, accuses […]
Metropolitan Police Department WASHINGTON — A reward has climbed to $30,000 as authorities search for a homicide suspect who escaped from a Washington, D.C., hospital one week ago. When Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested on Sept. 6, he complained of a preexisting ankle injury, according to D.C. police. Haynes was taken to […]
Joseph Prezioso/Getty Images NEW YORK — There’s been a common sight on Northeast beaches this summer: an alarmingly rise in whale carcasses washing in from the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned over the number of dead whales, an animal that provides a lens into the general condition of […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images WASHINGTON — In a rare post-trial hearing, a court security officer testified before the judge overseeing former Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress case, after Navarro’s attorneys moved for a mistrial. Navarro, who under Donald Trump was director of the White House Office of Trade and […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images PHILADELPHIA — A fugitive who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison just days after being sentenced to life without parole in the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend was captured early Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police said. Details on the capture have not yet been revealed. Police have scheduled a press conference […]
