Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal fraud trial for allegedly misleading investors as well doctors and patients about her blood-testing company is scheduled to start next summer. A federal judge at the U.S. District Court in San Jose set a trial date for Aug, 4, 2020, for Holmes and …
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Jun 29
Mother charged in death of missing 2-year-old Virginia boy
iStock(HAMPTON, Va.) — Police in Virginia now believe a 2-year-old boy missing for almost a week is dead, and they charged his mother with three counts of felony child neglect on Saturday. Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult said at a news conference late Friday evening that authorities believe Noah “to be deceased.” “Tonight we are …
Jun 29
Temperatures soar as severe weather threatens major Northeast cities
ABC News(NEW YORK) — It was another hot day across much of the U.S. on Friday, including the parts of the Northeast, where the region’s first official heat wave of 2019 was recorded. Philadelphia and New York’s LaGuardia Airport both reached 93 degrees on Friday, while Newark, New Jersey, reached 90. It was the third …
Jun 29
Trump wraps G-20 summit, says he may cross into North Korean territory
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images(OSAKA, Japan) — During a wide-ranging press conference that lasted just over an hour at the conclusion of the G-20 summit, President Donald Trump said he just may step across into North Korean territory when he visits the DMZ on Sunday, and he hopes Kim Jong Un will meet him there. “I understand …
Jun 29
Newark International Airport reopens after grounding flights for an hour
iStock(NEWARK, N.J.) — Newark Liberty Airport reopened Saturday morning after it grounded all flights into and out of the airport due to an “airport emergency.” “#EWR Airport reopened. Expect delays. Please check with your carriers,” the airport tweeted at 9:37 a.m. Saturday. At about 8:20 a.m., United Flight 2098, which is an Airbus 319, landed …
Jun 29
Trump, Xi strike diplomatic tone during US-China trade talks
iStock(OSAKA, Japan) — In the most anticipated — and perhaps most consequential — meeting of his time at the G-20, President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China sat down for talks Saturday amid an ongoing trade dispute. Both presidents struck a diplomatic tone in their remarks. Trump said his meeting with Xi was …
Jun 28
‘Entitled’ son faces life in prison for killing his hedge fund dad for reducing his allowance
iStock(NEW YORK) — A Manhattan, New York, jury took a little over two days to convict a Princeton University graduate for killing his hedge fund father, after the father threatened to reduce his allowances and not pay his rent. Thomas Gilbert Jr. is facing 25 years to life in prison for shooting his father, Wainscott …
Jun 28
Operation ‘Broken Heart’: 51 arrests made in Texas child sex crime sting
iStock(HOUSTON) — 51 arrests have been made in a sting operation covering three Texas counties in relation to online child sex crime. Officers from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force posed as underage children online for the sting, dubbed Operation “Broken Heart,” which took place over several months in Montgomery, Fort Bend and …
Jun 28
Memorial garden dedicated for Capital Gazette newspaper employees killed in shooting
Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun/TNS via Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — A memorial garden was dedicated in Annapolis, Maryland, Friday in honor of the five newspaper employees shot dead in their newsroom in a “senseless attack” one year ago. On June 28, 2018, four journalists — Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara — and a …
Jun 28
Mother arrested after allegedly leaving her 14-month-old in hot, locked car to enter liquor store
iStock(OWASSO, Okla.) — A woman is facing a possible charge of child endangerment in Oklahoma, after police say she left her 14-month-old child in a car for 15 to 20 minutes so that she could go into a liquor store. Police in Owasso said officers were called to the Owasso Wine and Liquor a little …