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(WASHINGTON) — The Republican-led House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on UFOs, officially called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), next week. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., announced on Twitter that the session is scheduled for July 26. The hearing comes after Republican lawmakers have promised to look deeper into UAPs following unconfirmed claims from a former intelligence […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday unveiled a federal law enforcement reform plan that he’s calling “critically important” and overdue — and a preview of legislation he would push if he is elected president in 2024. “If there’s anything that my life has represented, it is both my faith but it’s also support […]
(NEW YORK) — The annual great beluga migration is underway, but the whales are facing increasing dangers as the climate warms and human activity decimates their habitat. Every July, about 57,000 beluga whales make their way from the Arctic to warmer waters further south. In these safe southern havens, the shallow water protects them from […]
(NEW YORK) — As investigators dig into the “double life” of suspect Rex A. Heuermann, the Manhattan architect charged in the murders of three women in Long Island, they’re also checking to see if they can tie him to unsolved murders or missing persons cases throughout New York state, an NYPD official told ABC News. […]
(NEW YORK) — The most populous city in Texas has confirmed its first heat-related death of the year as record high temperatures scorch a swath of the United States. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences told ABC News on Sunday that there has been one heat-related death in Houston, the only one to occur […]
IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot is expected to grow to an estimated $900 million for Monday night’s drawing, a sum that would be the third-largest Powerball jackpot in history, the lottery said. The estimated cash payout would be about $465.1 million. The was no Powerball jackpot winner in Saturday night’s $875 million […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A man dressed as a woman walked into three Texas banks this month and handed tellers sticky notes with “threatening” messages demanding cash, earning him the nickname “Sticky Note Bandit,” the FBI said. The man, who hasn’t been arrested or publicly identified, left two of the Houston-area banks with undisclosed […]
(NEW YORK) — A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the Alaska Peninsula late Saturday. Preliminary data placed the quake about 55 miles southwest of Sand Point, Alaska, the National Weather Service said. It had initially been measured at a magnitude of 7.4, the United States Geological Survey said on Twitter. It struck at about 10:48 […]
(WASHINGTON) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that the war in Ukraine hasn’t devolved into a stalemate but he acknowledged it remains “hard going” against Russia. “We said before this counteroffensive started that it’d be hard going, and it’s been hard going,” Sullivan said in an interview with ABC “This Week” […]
(UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Penn.) — Four people have died and as many as three people remain unaccounted for after torrential rain caused flash flooding in Upper Makefield Township in Pennsylvania Saturday, officials in Bucks County said Sunday. Authorities are still searching for three people: Two siblings – a 9-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl – […]
