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Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hazy and dangerous fumes from ongoing Canadian wildfires have engulfed the skies over most of the northeast coast, prompting serious air quality alerts for millions of Americans. As of Tuesday evening, 17 states have issued those alerts as the thick fumes have blocked the sky and sent people indoors to […]

(RICHMOND, Va.) — A shooting occurred at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond on Tuesday, the school said. There is no ongoing threat following a “shooting incident” at the university’s Monroe Park campus, VCU said in an alert. Multiple police agencies responded to the scene near the Altria Theater, which was scheduled to host several graduation ceremonies […]

(WASHINGTON) — The chain of events set off by an unresponsive plane that eventually crashed Sunday in Virginia continues to raise questions about what happened on board and how the incident was handled. Six fighter jets were scrambled on the afternoon of June 4 to try to intercept the private Cessna jet, originally on a flight […]

(MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.) — A Florida man donned a unique disguise to burglarize a Miami Gardens supermarket. Claude Vincent Griffin Jr., 33, was caught on surveillance cameras haphazardly wearing a cardboard box as a mask when breaking into a glass display containing iPhones. Police allege that Griffin stole over $30,000 worth of merchandise, according to […]

(WASHINGTON) — Unlawful entries along the southern border have decreased 70% from their record highs since the end of Title 42 on May 11, according the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 3,400 encounters in between ports of entry per day and fewer than 300 non-CBP One Office of Field […]

(NEW YORK) — Wildfires burning in Canada are continuing to create poor air quality conditions in the U.S. as the smoke makes its way south. Hazy skies, low visibility and poor air quality will be present in most of the Northeast and the Midwest and even as far south as the Carolinas. Air quality alerts […]

(PORTLAND, Ore.) — The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon took a strong stance against “online rumors” Sunday, shutting down theories of a potential serial killer after the deaths of six women under the age of 40 within the last three months. The agency publicly condemned the speculation, accusing social media posts and news articles of […]

(WASHINGTON) — It was only 15 minutes after a Cessna 560 Citation civilian jet took off from an airport in northeastern Tennessee on Sunday that the aircraft, bound for New York, stopped responding to air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday — as new details emerged about an unusual episode in the […]

(NEW YORK) — A decade after the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactic was deemed unconstitutional, the police are still unlawfully stopping and searching many people, particularly men of color, according to a new report issued Monday by a court-appointed monitor. The monitor, Mylan Denerstein, faulted certain units of the NYPD’s Neighborhood Safety Teams (NST), […]