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Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Get ready to enjoy some fun in the sun as summer solstice makes its arrival this June. The event marks the beginning of a longer period of daylight as the Northern Hemisphere progresses into the summer season after a long dark and cold climate. It occurs twice a year […]
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a new projection from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the federal budget deficit – the gap between government revenue vs. spending – will be $1.9 trillion for the 2024 fiscal year. The deficit forecast is $400 billion higher than the CBO’s last estimate in February, an increase of 27%. The […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (SYRACUSE, N.Y.) — An explosion at a large family’s home in Syracuse, New York, left 10 people in severe or critical condition on Tuesday night. Around 50 firefighters responded to the residence at 205 Carbon Street around 4 p.m., where they smelled a strong odor of gas and found a car underneath […]
Stacy Lee Drake. Via Arkansas State Police (NEW YORK) — An “armed and dangerous” suspect connected to three murders and a slew of other crimes across the country is on the loose in Arkansas, according to authorities. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, is wanted in connection with three homicides in Oklahoma, stemming from two separate carjackings, […]
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks at a press briefing at the White House, on June 18, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public assertion that the Biden administration is broadly withholding military support for Israel amid its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza prompted confusion […]
ABC News A tropical system off the coast of Mexico strengthened into Tropical Storm Alberto on Wednesday morning and is set to bring heavy rain and coastal flooding to Texas. Alberto — the first named storm of the season — is forecast to make landfall in Mexico Wednesday night. Alberto has prompted a tropical storm […]
Stock-zilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Approximately 5,000 people have been evacuated in New Mexico on Tuesday as crews battle two wildfires that have spread across 20,000 acres, officials said. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency as the dual South Fork Fire and Salt Fire have spread with 0% containment as of Tuesday […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz looks on during a news conference about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) transparency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — In recent weeks, House Ethics Committee investigators have conducted a string of interviews behind closed doors with numerous women who were witnesses in the years-long Justice […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 70 million people in 14 states from the Midwest into the Northeast were under heat alerts on Wednesday amid a sweltering early summer heat wave. The extreme heat was expected on Wednesday to stretch farther north, touching parts of central and northern Maine. The National Weather Service in […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents sending her to a friend’s house several blocks away when an angry mob showed up at her family’s home to protest Black residents moving into the Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood. Lee was 12 years old. That night, the mob […]