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iStock/imagedepotpro (NEW YORK) — Portions of Hawaii are bracing for potentially catastrophic rainfall this week, just days after some islands were hit with an early winter snowstorm. Major flash flooding, river flooding and landslides are all possible on multiple islands, with a flood watch in effect across the state through Tuesday, according to the National […]

iStock/MattGush (NEW YORK) — A Minnesota snowstorm turned highways and roads into a slippery destruction derby in which at least 261 vehicle crashes were reported in an 18-hour period, authorities said. The traffic mayhem occurred as the first significant snowstorm of the season dumped about an inch of fresh powder across the Twin Cities area […]

(NEW YORK) — A suburban New York man threatened to attack the 2021 New York City Pride March with “firepower” that would “make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk,” federal prosecutors said Monday. Robert Fehring, 74, of Bayport, New York, allegedly sent at least 60 letters threatening to assault, shoot and […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.2 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 789,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 60% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

(NEW YORK) — In a report shared with the family of Emmett Till, the Justice Department said that it had concluded that the investigation into the 14-year-old’s murder and decided the case should be closed without a new federal prosecution. While the department and the FBI called Till’s murder “one of the most horrific examples […]

(NEW YORK) — Despite two cases being detected in his state, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis reiterated he’s not yet alarmed by the emergence of the omicron variant. “We always wish that we had next week’s information this week, next month’s information this month, but we don’t,” Polis told ABC’s This Week co-anchor Martha Raddatz on […]

(DETROIT) — The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old who authorities said killed four classmates at his Michigan high school, are still in jail after a judge assigned them each a $500,000 bond on manslaughter charges related to the shooting. James and Jennifer Crumbley were taken into custody early Saturday after they failed to turn […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.2 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 788,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 59.6% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Former Ohio sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of a Black man who was shot and killed while entering his grandmother’s house last December. In March, the Franklin County Coroner said that Casey Goodson Jr. […]

(NEW YORK) — A Columbia University graduate student has been stabbed to death near the Ivy League school’s New York City campus while walking home from soccer practice.   The student, 30-year-old Davide Giri, suffered a stab wound to his abdomen just before 11 p.m. Thursday near West 123 St. and Amsterdam Ave., at the […]