NoDerog/iStock(NEW YORK) — PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food companies, is in a legal battle with a Tennessee distillery, Ole Smoky Moonshine, over the distillery’s trademark application for the term “Mountain Dew.” PepsiCo filed a Notice of Opposition with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in 2016 opposing Ole Smoky’s trademark for “Ole Smoky …
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Jan 21
Alabama police officer fatally shot; suspect in custody
Mobile Police Department(MOBILE, Ala.) — A police officer was shot dead Sunday in Mobile, Alabama, authorities said. Officer Sean Tuder of the Mobile Police Department was killed in the line of duty while executing an arrest warrant late Sunday afternoon, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. A suspect is in custody, officials said. Mobile …
Jan 21
Students honor Martin Luther King Jr. in speech competition
ABC News(DALLAS) — A group of Texas elementary school students honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by carrying on the work he began, giving speeches inspired by his life and mission. The theme of this year’s Foley Gardere Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory competition for fourth- and fifth-graders from Dallas and Houston was “What would …
Jan 21
Remembering the women who helped MLK propel the civil rights movement
Dr. Martin Luther King with his wife Correta Scott. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, what would have been his 90th birthday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King propel the civil rights movement forward. “There …
Jan 21
Brutal Arctic blast overtakes eastern US
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major winter storm over the weekend delivered widespread snowfall, in many places 1 to 2 feet, from the Midwest to the Northeast. And it’s already even colder. In some areas, temperatures Monday morning are 30 to 40 degrees colder than just a day earlier — in Philadelphia, for example, it …
Jan 21
Oxfam: Billionaire fortunes grew 12% in 2018 as world’s poorest got 11% poorer
SARINYAPINNGAM/iStock(NEW YORK) — In 2018, billionaire fortunes grew by 12 percent — about $2.5 billion every day — as the world’s 3.8 billion poorest people lost about 11 percent of their wealth, according to a report by Oxfam launched to coincide with this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The number of billionaires has …
Jan 21
United Airlines passengers stranded for hours after plane diversion to Canada
Eitan Magid(NEW YORK) — Passengers on a United Airlines flight were stranded for more than 16 hours, and many had to sleep on the plane, after the jet made an emergency landing to aid a sick passenger. Flight 179 was traveling from Newark to Hong Kong on Saturday when it was diverted in Canada due …
Jan 21
Teen accused of taunting Native Americans in viral video breaks silence
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(PARK HILLS, Ky.) — A Kentucky high school student spoke out on Sunday after video appeared to show him taunting a group of Native American protesters in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, was accused of taunting and mocking a …
Jan 20
Marathon negotiations prompt hope of breakthrough in Los Angeles teachers’ strike
David McNew/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — More than 30,000 teachers on strike in Los Angeles are hoping they’ll soon be back in the classroom as marathon negotiations continue behind closed doors over the holiday weekend to break a contract stalemate. “I hope they get this figured out soon. It’s exhausting,” Melissa Berlant, a striking sixth-grade English …
Jan 20
Who is interpreter Marina Gross and will her notes of Trump’s Putin meeting be useful?
Chris McGrath/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Marina Gross, a State Department interpreter, was the only other American in the room during President Donald Trump’s one-on-one meeting with Russian President Putin in Helsinki last summer. ABC News has learned new details about the 64-year-old interpreter with the State Department’s Office of Language Services who is at the center …