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ABC News (NEW YORK) — An unrelenting heat dome continues to hover over the western United States this weekend, prompting heat alerts for tens of millions of residents. Heat advisories and warnings were issued for 40 million Americans across 10 states on Sunday, with the highest temperatures concentrated in places like California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has less than 50% Black residents — a move that state Democrats denounced as a shameless rejection of a recent U.S. […]
Bill Hutchinson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A shooting that erupted in a Houston park over the weekend that left a pregnant woman dead and four other people injured marked the 400th mass shooting in the United States in 2023, according to a national website that tracks firearm deaths and injuries. The Houston incident was among six […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The record-high temperatures recorded around the world show “the climate change bomb has gone off” and Americans must push “further and faster” for solutions — including voting against “climate deniers” like former President Donald Trump — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday. “What the scientific community is telling us now is that […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Three people have been hospitalized after a shooting took place outside a bar in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. All three people who were shot were listed in stable condition at local hospitals, officials said. Police believe that a 32-year-old woman who was shot was a […]
Stockbyte/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New details emerged Friday that might provide clues in the mystery about why a 23-year-old U.S. Army private crossed the border into North Korea earlier this week. A U.S. official confirms that on Sept. 4, 2022, Pvt. Travis King failed to report for his daily formation, and when reached away from […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two men have been arrested following three attacks on women in Manhattan’s Riverside Park this week, according to New York City police. The first attack was at about 4:40 p.m Tuesday, when a woman was approached by a man who grabbed her breasts, “made explicit statements” and then fled […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Friday to keep up her “fight” back against new, controversial Black history standards approved unanimously this week by the state’s board of education. Among the changes approved Wednesday was a section of “benchmark clarifications,” and among those was one that states “instruction […]
sshepard/Getty Images (MIDDLETOWN, Conn.) — The Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action nationwide was based on what was described as a fundamental sense of fairness. The rationale was that a student’s college acceptance should rely on their grades, not on race. Opponents of the ruling immediately pointed to the fact that colleges have lots […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NORTH CONWAY, N.H.) — An independent voter at a meet-and-greet in New Hampshire on Friday told former Vice President Mike Pence that he was concerned with his place in the polls — and with the fact that Pence is not taking on former President Donald Trump harder as he leads the field for […]
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