onurdongel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Record-high travel numbers are possible this Fourth of July holiday. Here’s what to know before you head to the airport or hit the highway: Air travel According to Expedia, Saturday, June 29, will be the busiest day in the airports before the Fourth of July. […]
Nyah Mway family (UTICA, N.Y.) — New York State Attorney General Letitia James said her office is launching an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy who allegedly pointed a replica handgun at officers during an encounter in Utica. James’s announcement came a day after hundreds of […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Fourth of July holiday is stacking up to be a scorcher for most of the nation. Numerous record temperatures are expected to be broken as highs in California are forecast to stay in the triple digits through Independence Day and beyond, and hot, humid […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Last June, the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 decision, that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s admissions programs, which had accounted for race at various stages in the process, violated the […]
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A New Mexico judge denied Alec Baldwin’s bid to drop his involuntary manslaughter charge over firearm evidence stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” before his trial starts next month. In their request to dismiss the indictment, Baldwin’s attorneys […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Four people were killed and nine others injured after a vehicle crashed into a storefront in New York on Friday, authorities said. The “mass casualty” incident occurred in Deer Park on Long Island Friday afternoon, Deer Park Fire Department Chief Dominic Albanese said during a […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas.) — Former Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, court records show. Arredondo was charged with 10 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in […]
Getty Images – STOCK (WELLFLEET, Mass. ) — Some 125 dolphins are currently stranded on a beach near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). The Atlantic white-sided dolphins are stranded at the Great Island at the Herring River — also known as the “Gut” — […]
Getty Images – STOCK (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A North Carolina mother has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter after she allegedly left her 8-year-old daughter in a hot car while at work and the girl died, police said. Officers responded Wednesday evening to reports of a child in critical […]
Getty Images – STOCK (YULEE, Fla.) — A man was fishing in Florida when a shark bit him, severely injuring his arm, officials said. The man, who is in his 40s, was on a boat at the time of the attack, which unfolded around 11 a.m. Friday at West Rock […]
