Clive Brunskill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Open women’s singles final is set to kick off Saturday afternoon, with 19-year-old American Coco Gauff playing against Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus. The championship match, which is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. ET, marks the first appearance by both athletes in a […]
ABC News (MAUI, Hawaii) — A month after wildfires destroyed parts of Maui, killing at least 115 people and displacing thousands of others, Mayor Richard Bissen said there is still a long road ahead for residents but was confident their solidarity would move them forward. Bissen spoke with ABC News about […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than a decade since the launch of dating apps, they have become unavoidable players in the modern dating game. In the U.S., 3 in 10 adults say they have used a dating site or app, and 1 in 10 partnered adults say they met their […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Artists and environmentalists are one and the same at a New York theater company, that has made it its mission to put sustainability at the forefront of its operations. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a nonprofit theater company nestled in the sprawling hills just north of […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee is churning over the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph, just below the strength of a Category 5, which begins at 157 mph winds. On Thursday, Lee strengthened from a Category 2 hurricane to a Category […]
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in Georgia on Friday denied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ bid to move his Fulton County election interference case to federal court. “Having considered the arguments and the evidence, the Court concludes that Meadows has not met his burden,” […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (REDAN, Ga) — A police chief who was allegedly seen on camera body-slamming a student has been put on paid leave, Georgia’s DeKalb County School District (DCSD) said Friday. In a video that has been circulating on social media, DCSD Police Chief Brad Gober allegedly slams a student […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a man sitting in his car last month surrendered to authorities Friday morning on murder charges. Mark Dial, the officer accused of fatally shooting Eddie Irizarry Jr. on Aug. 14, was also charged with voluntary manslaughter, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now a powerful Category 4 hurricane, is one of only a handful of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin during the satellite era to intensify by 85 mph or more within a 24-hour period. The storm intensified more than twice the National Hurricane Center’s […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Articulating a woman’s journey may not be an easy task, but in her new book, “Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words,” scholar Jenni Nuttall attempts to do just that. The book, released last month, is billed as an investigation of the words used […]
