Gary Hershorn/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Parts of midtown Manhattan in New York City were hit with a power outage on Saturday evening, causing Times Square billboards to go dark, leaving people trapped in elevators and shutting down a Jennifer Lopez concert at Madison Square Garden. Just before midnight on Saturday, Consolidated Edison Inc., New York …
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Jul 13
Power outage in parts of New York City, officials say
(NEW YORK) — Parts of midtown Manhattan in New York City were hit with a power outage on Saturday evening, causing Times Square billboards and to go dark and disrupting subway service. Consolidated Edison Inc, New York City’s power provider, said in a post on Twitter that it is “responding to extensive outages on the …
Jul 13
Prominent journalist and an unnamed American among 26 dead in Somalia hotel attack
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images(KISMAYO, Sudan) — An attack in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo over the weekend killed 26 people, including the prominent Canadian-Somali journalist Hodan Nalayeh, who returned to her native country with a mission to tell its overlooked stories. The attack prompted an outpouring of grief on social media. Nalayeh, who founded Integration TV, …
Jul 13
Rifle-toting man throwing “incendiary devices” at ICE detention center fatally shot by police
Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images(TACOMA, Wash.) — A man armed with a rifle, flares and “incendiary devices” at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Washington state was fatally shot by police early Saturday, authorities said. The unidentified man was allegedly throwing lit objects at buildings at Tacoma’s North West Detention Center on Saturday …
Jul 13
Police bodycam footage shows fatal shooting of Hannah Williams in Anaheim
MIguel Marin/EyeEm/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — A call from a 17-year old southern California girl’s father after she was fatally shot by police served as a heartbreaking postscript to bodycam video showing the teen’s final moments, during which she was shot after appearing to aim a gun at a responding officer. Fullerton police released the bodycam …
Jul 13
Tropical Storm Barry expected to be hurricane at landfall
ABC News(NEW YORK) — With landfall hours away, Tropical Storm Barry was already lashing the southern coast of Louisiana with wind and heavy rain. Barry is forecast to be a low-end Category 1 hurricane when it comes on shore near Morgan City, Louisiana, Saturday morning. But it is the very heavy rainfall and major flash …
Jul 12
Prosecutors, arguing against bail for Jeffrey Epstein, claim he tried to buy off witnesses
Rick Friedman/Corbis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The allegations came Friday as prosecutors argued against a federal judge setting bail for the multi-millionaire. Epstein, who in 2008 served 13 months in jail after pleading to state prostitution charges in Florida, was arrested last weekend on charges that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at …
Jul 12
Marriott, Choice hotels say they would not serve as detention centers after ICE raids
Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As U.S. cities brace for President Donald Trump’s promised immigration raids this weekend, two popular hotel chains said they would not serve as detention centers for immigrants in the event of a housing shortage. Trump on Friday confirmed plans for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in major U.S. cities …
Jul 12
Tourists flock to sacred Uluru site before climb ban, leave mounds of trash behind
Chris Jackson/Getty Images(SYDNEY) — Australia’s landmark sandstone, considered a site of “great spiritual significance,” has been turned into something of a trash heap as tourists flock in droves trying to beat the upcoming climbing ban. Tourists who have made their way to Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, before it officially shuts climbing down on …
Jul 12
Half a million people pledge to storm Area 51 to ‘see them aliens’
DigitalGlobe/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Nearly half a million believers have declared they’re rushing Area 51 to “see them aliens.”By late Friday, 496,000 Facebook users RSVPd “yes” in hopes of catching up with their other-worldly friends at the event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” on Sept. 20 in the Nevada desert. An …
