Tempura/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 923,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for…

WSOC-TV(NEW YORK) — A Charlotte, North Carolina, city bus driver has died after being shot while at the wheel and on his route with passengers aboard in what police are investigating as a possible road rage incident, authorities said.

Ethan Rivera, 41…

JewBelong(NEW YORK) — A nonprofit organization is tackling growing attacks on the Jewish community in a splashy way – by installing bright pink billboards across the country that denounce antisemitism.

The New Jersey-based organization, JewBelong, la…

Instagram/chii_tercero(NEW YORK) — The deaths of two young aspiring rappers last week have reinvigorated the debate about drill music, a popular subgenre of rap, and its connection to violence.

Jayquan McKenley, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from th…

Getty Images/Stock photo(NEW YORK) — The world’s biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns.

And while that “doom and gloom” is the typical discourse surrounding how climate…

SimpleImages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In the five years since Utah passed the strictest legislation in the country on blood alcohol driving limits, there have been fewer traffic deaths overall in the state and lower driver alcohol involvement, a feder…

@chii_tercero via Instagram(NEW YORK) — The deaths of two young aspiring rappers last week have reinvigorated the debate about drill music, a popular subgenre of rap, and its connection to violence.

Jayquan McKenley, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper fr…

Genesee County Sheriff’s Office(DETROIT) — When Bruce Miller was found fatally shot at his Michigan salvage yard in November 1999, it was Jerry Cassaday who pulled the trigger.

But the one pulling the strings on Cassaday was his online girlfriend and…

Marc Piscotty/Getty Images(POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, Okla.) — Joe Exotic, the larger-than-life Netflix star from the hit show “Tiger King: Murder Mayhem and Madness,” is speaking out from prison a month after being re-sentenced for a murder-for-hire plot a…

Waukesha County Sheriff(WAUKESHA, Wis.) — The suspect in a deadly hit-and-run during a Christmas parade last year in Waukesha, Wisconsin, pleaded not guilty Friday to dozens of charges.

An attorney for Darrell Brooks, 39, entered the pleas to 77 char…

Steve Prezant/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Amir Locke was fatally shot by Minneapolis police officers in an apartment early Wednesday morning as officers were executing a “no-knock” search warrant.

Locke, a legal gun owner, had been sleeping under a blan…

WPVI-TV/ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) — Six people were stabbed in a Philadelphia home early Friday in what police are calling a “very violent scene.”

Police received a 911 call just after 4 a.m. reporting a stabbing and responding officers found the victim…

NYCHA program manager Jordan Bonomo speaks with Ginger Zee of ABC News about the heat pumps being used as part of the pilot program taking place at the Fort Independence Houses in the Bronx borough of New York. – ABC News(NEW YORK) — As cities across …

kali9/Getty Images(PHOENIX) — Five Phoenix police officers were shot and injured, and a woman was shot and killed during an early morning barricade situation, the department said.

All of the officers’ injuries were non-life-threatening, police said.
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Dusty Pixel photography/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — COVID-19 has made tens of thousands of children orphans, and, in some cases, they’re left with little resources to help them with their burdens.

A bill introduced in the California Legislatur…

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 915,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’…

Tim Drivas Photography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A South Korean diplomat was punched in the face in New York City on Wednesday night during what police described as an “unprovoked” attack.

Officers responded to a 911 call about an assault in the area …

Lindsey Jacobson/ABC News(DELPHI, Ind.) — In Delphi, Indiana, a close-knit town of nearly 3,000 residents, this weekend marks five years since its most haunting event — the slayings of two eighth-grade girls on a local hiking trail — a devastating c…

iStock/koto_feja(NEW YORK) — A growing number of states are moving to drop mask mandates and COVID-19 restrictions, as Americans hope to move into a new phase of the pandemic.

The decision comes despite continued push back from the Centers for Diseas…

iStock(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission filed a lawsuit against Leachco on Wednesday after it said the company refused to recall baby loungers linked to suffocation hazards.

The move follows CPSC’s warning to the public last mo…

iStock/ChiccoDodiFC(NEW YORK) — A Dallas police officer and his former colleague who was recently fired are expected to surrender to face criminal charges alleging they used excessive force at a 2020 protest over the death of George Floyd at the hands…

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — “No-knock” warrants — where officers don’t announce themselves before entering a home — are under scrutiny once again following the Feb. 2 fatal shooting of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was killed …

Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security warned of potential truck protests around Inglewood, California, the home of the Super Bowl LVI, on Sunday, over, among other things, vaccine mandates…

Jackyenjoyphotography/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 912,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins Universit…

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A South Korean diplomat was punched in the face in New York City on Wednesday night during what police described as an “unprovoked” attack.

Officers responded to a 911 call about an assault in the area of Fifth …

Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images(BOULDER, Colo.) — Nearly a year after a gunman opened fire at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, the grocery store has reopened.

A marching band helped mark Wed…

Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Two Oklahoma men were indicted by a federal grand jury after authorities accused them of committing hate crimes in connection with an alleged assault against two people outside of a bar in 2019.

The two-count indi…

iStock/south agency(NEW YORK) — A 50-year-old triple homicide case has finally been closed, after a suspect’s son provided clues that led investigators to the so-called Dixie Mafia, authorities said.

On Feb. 3, 1972, a family of three was found murde…

iStock(NEW YORK) — A man was arrested after he was accused of raping a woman on a United flight.

Police at London’s Heathrow Airport were alerted to “an incident” on an inbound trans-Atlantic flight from Newark, New Jersey, on the morning of Jan. 31….

iStock/Tero Vesalainen(NEW YORK) — Thousands of public employees from across Puerto Rico took to the streets Wednesday to demand higher salaries and better pensions.

The demonstration followed a protest by teachers on Friday demanding a temporary inc…