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(NEW YORK) — It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents sending her to a friend’s house several blocks away when an angry mob showed up at her family’s home to protest Black residents moving into the Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood. Lee was 12 years old. That night, the mob burned down […]
Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the United States heads into the summer season, early indicators show the country is likely to experience an increase in COVID-19 infections. For the week ending June 8, the latest date for which data is available, COVID test positivity was 5.4% across the U.S., an increase of 0.8% […]
(WASHINGTON) — In recent weeks, House Ethics Committee investigators have conducted a string of interviews behind closed doors with numerous women who were witnesses in the years-long Justice Department sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, multiple sources familiar with the committee’s work tell ABC News. Investigators have interviewed at least half a dozen women […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 70 million people in 14 states from the Midwest into the Northeast were under heat alerts on Wednesday amid a sweltering early summer heat wave. The extreme heat was expected on Wednesday to stretch farther north, touching parts of central and northern Maine. The National Weather Service in […]
(NEW YORK) — Rory McIlroy came up one stroke short of ending his decade-long major drought at Pinehurst on Sunday. Despite the visceral disappointment on display as he departed the parking lot without taking questions from the press, his sights are now set on Scotland with a resilient mentality. Rory McIlroy taking time off golf […]
HBO/Steffan Hill HBO has announced that shooting has begun in Belfast, Ireland for the forthcoming Game of Thrones prequel spinoff series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. As reported, the show is based on the characters Ser Duncan the Tall and his young squire, Egg, who were featured in George R.R. Martin‘s The Hedge Knight […]
Photo by Miikka Skaffari/FilmMagic Happy Juneteenth! If you’re wondering how you’re going to celebrate the new federal holiday, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States, there are a few star-studded events to keep in mind. — Taking place at the Hollywood Bowl in LA is a concert featuring T-Pain and special guests Ledisi, D Smoke, […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York’s highest court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to the limited gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump by the judge who oversaw his criminal hush money trial. The New York Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s appeal “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional […]
(NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park last week, according to police. Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, a 25-year-old Ecuadorian migrant who entered the U.S. illegally in June 2021, was picked up overnight after community members recognized him from a photo and video […]
Yuki Iwamura – Pool/Getty Images, FILE (PHOENIX, Ariz.) — Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis pleaded not guilty in Maricopa County court Tuesday morning for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona. Ellis appeared by video conference during the hearing and Epshteyn joined by phone. Their […]
