Big wave wipes out wedding reception
A big wave put a damper on a wedding reception in Hawaii. No injuries were reported, but the cake was destroyed.
A big wave put a damper on a wedding reception in Hawaii. No injuries were reported, but the cake was destroyed.
Maybelle Blair "could talk about baseball forever," she likes to say. Weeks later, speaking with ABC News, Blair said she hadn't planned on announcing her sexuality that day. Blair herself was a player for the Peoria Redwings in 1948.
With the number of cases of monkeypox rising across the world, and descriptions of rashes from the virus varying from person-to-person, people are concerned that any new bumps might be monkeypox. There are many skin bumps which can be totally normal which can appear like monkeypox, including zits, acne, skin reactions to heavy metals, ingrown hairs or even eczema or psoriasis.
JC Chasez made his TikTok debut with a full head of gray hair. The 'N Sync singer posted a short video on the social media app wearing a pair of glasses, a tan jacket and a white shirt while he looks into the camera asking how this works. "Am I doing this right?" Chasez captioned the clip, tagging fellow band members Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake and Joey Fatone.
Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are fundraising off Monday's FBI raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, providing another platform for Trump to capitalize financially on government investigations related to him. Trump's Save America PAC sent out a fundraising email Tuesday morning in which Trump urged supporters to "rush in a donation IMMEDIATELY to publicly stand with me against this NEVERENDING WITCH HUNT."
The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds will take to the cornfields of Iowa for a game fit for dreams on Thursday night in the second edition of the MLB’s homage to the 1989 classic film starring Kevin Costner. The "Field of Dreams" game will feature players wearing uniforms modeled after the ones each club wore a century ago, and walking out of the cornfields onto a baseball field adjacent to the original movie’s location. The Reds will be the designated home team for the regular season game.
A 3-month-old boy has died after being left in a hot car in Washington, D.C., authorities said. Officers responded to a home shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday and found the baby, Aaron Boyd Jr., unconscious and not breathing, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department said. It was not clear how long Aaron had been left in the black Honda Accord, police said.
Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford revealed that he was sexually abused when he was just 6 years old -- and he is addressing the traumatic experience through his music. "Like lots of people -- and I'm learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people -- I was sexually abused as a child," he said. Mumford said writing "Cannibal" allowed him to talk about what happened with his mother.
Albuquerque police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of four Muslim men in the past nine months. Muhammad Atif Syed, a 51-year-old man originally from Afghanistan, has been charged with two of the murders, while investigators are left to gather enough evidence to possibly charge him with the remaining two. "We think there might be involvement in two other homicide cases," Albuquerque Deputy Cmdr. Kyle Hartsock told reporters during a news conference Tuesday.
Halle Bailey is opening up about her barrier-breaking role as Ariel in Disney's forthcoming live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid." News of a Black actress playing the lead role was initially met with some backlash, but Bailey pushed through. Bailey also pondered what it would have felt for her younger self if the cartoon Ariel in Disney's 1989 animated classic had been depicted as someone who looked like her.
The Food and Drug Administration announced an emergency use authorization to move forward with their plan to stretch out the current monkeypox vaccine supply with a new injection method that will try to stretch one dose into five. "In recent weeks, the monkeypox virus has continued to spread at a rate that has made it clear our current vaccine supply will not meet the current demand," FDA Commissioner Bob Califf said Tuesday during a press briefing. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator for the White House Monkeypox Response, sought to reassure gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men -- the group most affected by the outbreak right now -- that the new strategy is evidence-based.
Josie Hull and Teresa Cajas are celebrating a huge milestone many didn’t think would happen. Hull and Cajas were just girls when they traveled from a small village in Guatemala to undergo a high-risk separation surgery at UCLA in 2002, a journey ABC station KABC in Los Angeles followed over the years. Dr. Mark Urata, an oral and plastic surgeon at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, was on the team that operated on Hull and Cajas.
Since the first case of monkeypox was detected in the United States in mid-May, the outbreak has led to more than 10,300 reported cases across the country as of Wednesday. The evolving situation moved the Department of Health and Human Services to declare a public health emergency last week. Many questions have emerged over the last 2 1/2 months including how the disease spreads, how it's treated and which vaccines can prevent infection.
In the wake of a mass shooting that killed 21 in its hometown of Uvalde, Texas, a prominent local paper announced it would be happy for the day when the nation's media spotlight would shine anywhere else. It is an initiative called "Uvalde:365" and is being led by the ABC News Investigative Unit. "The usual trajectory for mass shooting coverage involved an invasion by the national media, followed by a hasty retreat," the newspaper reported.
Law enforcement agencies around the country are actively monitoring online threats and rhetoric that has emerged in the wake of the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday, sources tell ABC News. Agencies are also preparing for possible acts of violence they fear could occur at or near pro-Trump demonstrations that some supporters are calling for, law enforcement sources said. Authorities on Monday morning searched Trump's Florida estate in what sources told ABC News was part of a probe into documents that Trump improperly took to Mar-a-Lago when he departed the White House, some of which the National Archives has said were marked classified.
The national average price for a gallon of gas fell below $4 on Thursday for the first time since early March, according to AAA data. The national average price for a gallon of gas, which stands at $3.99, has fallen more than 20% since it reached a peak of $5.01 in mid-June, according to data AAA provided to ABC News. In Texas, the state with the lowest average gas price, a gallon costs $3.49, AAA data showed.
A Nebraska mother and teenage daughter are facing criminal charges after the teen allegedly got an illegal abortion and police say the two buried the fetus. While the abortion allegedly occurred before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion, a state law on the books since 2010 bans abortions in Nebraska at 20 weeks. According to police, Celeste Burgess received help from her mother Jessica Burgess, 41, in taking abortion pills to end the pregnancy and the two allegedly buried and reburied the fetus together three times at different locations.
As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to deal with staffing issues on a nearly daily basis, the agency says it has received 57,956 applications for this year's 1,500 open air traffic controller positions. The median annual salary for air traffic controllers (ATCs) was $138,556 in 2021. "In 2011, there were over 11,750 Certified Professional Controllers and additional trainees yielding over 15,000 total controllers on board at the FAA," Rich Santa said at an industry conference last week.
Three people are dead after a house exploded Wednesday in southern Indiana, officials said. Dozens of firefighters responded to the scene in Evansville, after the blast occurred Wednesday afternoon on the 1000 block of North Weinbach Avenue, officials said. The home where the explosion occurred was destroyed and 39 other structures were "damaged severely or suffered minor damage," Evansville Fire Chief Mike Connelly told reporters Wednesday evening.
Answering questions at the FBI Omaha, Nebraska field office, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday he couldn't talk about FBI agents searching Mar-a-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump, but did say that he is "always concerned" about the threats to law enforcement. "Well, as I'm sure you can appreciate that's not something I can talk about," Wray said, becoming the first senior Justice Department official to decline to comment on the record and on camera about the search of the former president's estate.
Millie Bobby Brown is shining bright on the cover of Allure's September 2022 issue. The "Stranger Things" star is seen with colorful, accessorized eye appliques, green eyeliner and blushed-toned gloss along with the cover line, "At Least 11 Reasons to Love Her." Brown spoke with Allure about everything from growing up feeling lonely to navigating through the public eye and more.