ABC News(NEW YORK) — If you’re on Instagram, then chances are you have a friend who’s taken a selfie at Joshua Tree National Park or one of the poppy fields in California, or maybe even atop a cliff overlooking the Colorado River known as Horseshoe Bend. National parks and public lands across the country have …
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Jul 29
Pair arrested in connection with ‘Pink Lady Bandit’ bank robberies
Pittcountync.gov(GREENVILLE, N.C.) — The woman who authorities allege is the “Pink Lady Bandit” responsible for several bank robberies, as well as her alleged accomplice, have been arrested. Circe Baez, 35, is now being held at the Pitt County Detention Center in Greenville, North Carolina, on $4 million bond, the FBI announced Monday. The arrests on …
Jul 29
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Suspect Santino William Legan, 19, identified as gunman who allegedly killed 3 people
@bradpittshoe/Twitter (GILROY, Calif.) — A 19-year-old was identified Monday as the suspected gunman in the California festival shooting that killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen others. Gunshots rang out Sunday just before 6 p.m. local time at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival in the city of Gilroy, some 80 miles …
Jul 29
Mystery surrounds London family court case between Emirati Sheikh Mohammed and his wife, Princess Haya
Ilya Burdun/iStock(LONDON) — A controversy involving one of the world’s richest royal families is set to intensify when a court case begins in London on Tuesday. The dispute between Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, and his wife, Princess Haya, has been the subject of intense media speculation in recent weeks, …
Jul 29
Read Meghan Markle’s guest editor letter in the September issue of British Vogue
NataliaCatalina/iStock(LONDON) — Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, found out she would take on a history-making role for British Vogue via text message. That detail and more are revealed in Meghan’s guest editor’s letter for British Vogue’s September issue, for which she serves as the first-ever guest editor of the September issue. In the letter, …
Jul 29
Could it BE any more interactive? Pop-up experience lets you live like the ‘Friends’ cast
JANIFEST/iStock(NEW YORK) — If you’ve ever wanted to have a cup of joe at Central Perk, worship “Baywatch” with a best bud in side-by-side Lay-Z-Boy recliners or try to belt out “Smelly Cat,” you’ll soon be in luck. To celebrate the milestone 25th anniversary of “Friends,” a pop-up exhibit called “Friends25” will open Sept. 7 …
Jul 29
Alexey Navalny, prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned, doctor insists
Mlenny/iStock(MOSCOW) — A personal doctor for Russia’s most prominent opposition activist, Alexey Navalny, insists he was deliberately poisoned with a “chemical agent” after he was hospitalized with a sudden skin illness he contracted while in a Moscow jail. Navalny was taken to the hospital from jail on Sunday with what authorities said was a “severe …
Jul 29
Manhunt continues for Canadian teens suspected of murder
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police(NEW YORK) — Police in Canada have announced a possible sighting of the suspects wanted in connection to three murders as the manhunt continues. Before the weekend, authorities announced they planned to conduct door-to-door searches for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, near Gillam, a town of just over 1,200 …
Jul 29
Summer heat on both coasts as Southwest tops 110 degrees
ABC News(NEW YORK) — At least 16 wildfires are burning in the West, and on Sunday a 150-acre blaze near Chino Hills, Calif., engulfed a home. Over the weekend, officials in Oregon were battling the MilePost 97 fire near Canyonville that had burned more than 11,000 acres. There’s a risk of fires today in parts …
Jul 29
Disappearance of Italian girl remains unsolved after bones exhumed from Vatican cemetery yields no clues
querbeet/iStock(ROME) — A scientific analysis of 24 bags of bones exhumed from an ancient Vatican cemetery determined they are too old to be an Italian high school girl who vanished from a street in Rome 36 years ago, according to officials at the Holy See. Acting on a bizarre anonymous tip to search for the …