ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are on alert for unhealthy air quality as smoke from wildfires in neighboring Canada drifts to the United States. Wildfires have burned a record of more than 19.5 million acres across Canada so far this year, with no end in sight. There […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — The New Haven Board of Police Commissioners voted on Wednesday to terminate two more police officers charged for their involvement in the arrest of Richard “Randy” Cox – a Black man who was paralyzed while in police custody. The decision to fire officers […]
Greenwich Entertainment (NEW YORK) — Afghanistan War veteran Jason Kander says he was a few months into therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder when he realized, for the first time, that recovery is not only possible, but common. “My therapist had to explain to me that it is normal to get better,” […]
Bill Hutchinson/Getty Images (ALLEN, Texas) — As a Texas grand jury declined to indict the police officer who killed a mass shooter at an outlet mall in May, authorities released dramatic body camera video Wednesday of the officer racing toward the gunfire and taking down the assailant accused of shooting 15 […]
Indiana State Police (DELPHIA, Ind.) — Delphi, Indiana, double murder suspect Richard Allen allegedly confessed to the killings several times in a jail phone call with his wife in April, according to newly unsealed court documents. Allen, a Delphi resident, was arrested in October 2022 and charged with two counts of […]
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A 32-year-old Boston woman is facing criminal charges for allegedly enrolling and posing as a student in three Boston high schools, court records show. Shelby Hewitt, of Canton, Massachusetts, reportedly went by the name Ellie and had recently enrolled at English High School, before school […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (ALBANY, N.Y.) — The owners, operators and landlords of four nursing homes in New York for years misused more than $83 million in taxpayer money, leaving elderly people in their care dead, neglected or humiliated by sitting in their own urine and feces, New York Attorney General Letitia […]
Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. could soon be paying an additional $1 billion in healthcare expenses each summer due to forecasts of continuing waves of extreme heat in the near future, a new report has found. The additional cost in heat-related healthcare will stem […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The watchdog report released Tuesday that revealed how some $200 billion in COVID-19 aid was potentially misspent threw into sharper relief how one pandemic-era program emerged above all others as a magnet for fraudsters: the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, or EIDL. […]
Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Shockwaves from the gruesome home-invasion slayings in the Boston area of three elderly members of a devout Catholic family have reached Pope Francis at the Vatican, a priest told grieving parishioners at a service held for the victims. During a Tuesday night Mass […]
