Kris Allen(NEW YORK) — A 2-year-old Minnesota boy who was reported missing was quickly found at a county fair — after making the trek in on his toy tractor, his family said Saturday. Little Kenneth was riding around in his yard on his John Deere tractor Thursday night when he remembered that the Chisago County …
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Jul 20
Lufthansa, British Airways suddenly suspend all flights to Cairo as ‘precaution’
studioEAST/Getty Images(LONDON) — British Airways and the German carrier Lufthansa said on Saturday they had suspended all flights to Cairo for seven days as a security “precaution,” but offered no additional details. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as …
Jul 20
Search for missing teen Emanuela Orlandi leads to recovery of bones at the Vatican
iStock/MichalLudwiczak(ROME) — Bones were collected from the depths of the Vatican Saturday, the latest effort to solve the mystery of a 15-year-old girl who vanished 36 years ago. Representatives of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, who has been searching for the girl since she went missing from a street in the center of Rome in …
Jul 20
Kathy Zhu, Miss Michigan 2019, stripped of her title over ‘offensive’ social media posts
iStock/JadeThaiCatwalk(NEW YORK) — A Michigan beauty queen was stripped of her title over comments she made on social media about Muslim women and black people, she said. Executives with Miss World America told Kathy Zhu, the Miss Michigan 2019 winner, that her “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate” posts on social media were in violation of the …
Jul 20
Hong Kong police find large cache of explosives ahead of weekend protests, reports say
Chris McGrath/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong authorities seized a large haul of explosives and weapons in a raid Friday, leading to an arrest and an investigation just as the city braces for another mass protest, according to local reports. The discovery comes ahead of the latest of ongoing demonstrations, in part calling on the …
Jul 20
Iran seizes British, Liberian oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz
iStock(TEHRAN) — Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have seized a British-flagged and a Liberian-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, Britain’s foreign secretary said, in what appeared to be a significant new escalation between Tehran and Western countries. Late Friday, a management company for the Liberian tanker, Mesdar announced in …
Jul 20
50 years after the moon landing: How close is space travel, really?
iStock(NEW YORK) — When Americans first walked on the moon 50 years ago, the idea of space travel crystallized into a graspable future. Bolstered by a geeky shift in pop culture that launched and relaunched franchises such as Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek, Americans saw intergalactic storylines that never touched Earth. Life in …
Jul 20
Dangerous heat wave scorches millions in Midwest, East Coast
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Several heat index readings came close to setting records across the eastern half of the U.S. on Friday, with the hottest temperatures still yet to come on the East Coast. Des Moines, Iowa, saw a heat index reading — the “feels like” temperature due to the high humidity — of 119 …
Jul 19
‘Manhole’ becomes ‘maintenance hole’ as Berkeley switches to gender-neutral language
iStock(BERKELEY, Calif.) — Manholes will now be known as maintenance holes and craftsman will be replaced by artisan, after the Berkeley, California, City Council voted unanimously to revise the city’s municipal code with gender-neutral language. Dozens of terms will be revised and the pronouns “they” and “them” will replace “he” and “she,” according to the …
Jul 19
Canadian police investigating ‘suspicious’ deaths of couple on side of remote highway
iStock(BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Authorities in British Columbia, Canada, are desperately looking for answers after the lifeless bodies of a young couple were found on the side of a remote highway. Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and boyfriend Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, of Australia, were found Monday on Alaska Highway 97, south …