Lauren Smith Fields, 23, died after a date with an older man she met on the dating app Bumble.
A massive wildfire currently burning east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is now the largest in the state's history as thousands of firefighters continue to battle the blaze. The Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire -- made up of two fires that merged into one giant blaze last month -- has burned 299,565 acres, state fire officials said Tuesday. It officially surpassed the Whitewater-Baldy Fire as the largest fire in New Mexico's history on Monday.
As Democrats have ratcheted up condemnation of "replacement theory" in the wake of Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, some Republicans on Capitol Hill have shied away from rejecting the racist idea that some members of their own party have espoused. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked repeatedly about his views of "replacement theory," a conspiracy theory that holds that Democrats are trying to replace white Americans with undocumented immigrants and people of color in order to win elections. McConnell was asked whether he, as the party leader, had a responsibility to speak out against the theory, which authorities say was adopted by the 18-year-old white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a local food market.
One person is dead and another has been rescued after the siblings became trapped under sand while digging at a Jersey Shore beach Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Police and emergency medical services responded to a barrier island beach in Toms River, New Jersey, shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday "for reports of juveniles trapped in the sand as it collapsed around them while digging," the Toms River Police Department said on Facebook. The victim was identified by police as Levi Caverly of Maine.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the front-runner in the state's Democratic Senate primary race, completed a "successful procedure" to get a pacemaker and defibrillator on Tuesday afternoon, his campaign said later that day, after he suffered a stroke late last week. The procedure began at 3:15pm, John was released at 5:56pm, and he has been given the all-clear that it was successful. Fetterman's campaign announced his procedure earlier Tuesday, saying it would "help protect his heart and address the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation (A-fib), by regulating his heart rate and rhythm."
One out of every six deaths in 2019 were attributed to pollution, according to a new estimate published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Experts said it's not clear how the global pandemic will impact the analysis moving forward. Despite improvements made in water pollution in recent years, a rise in air and chemical pollution means the death rate has been relatively unchanged since 2015.
As the baby formula shortage continues to impact parents and children across the country, there is renewed interest in donor breast milk, or donor human milk, with some considering it as another option in addition to formula. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America said it has seen an “unprecedented” number of calls to its member milk banks from people inquiring about donor milk, especially in Texas, Illinois and California. “In the height of this formula shortage crisis, we are absolutely seeing a surge in demand and inquiries from families who are stressed and wondering if donor milk is a safe option for them to explore,” Lindsay Groff, the organization's executive director, told “Good Morning America.”
A person of interest is being sought in the slayings of a retired New Hampshire couple found shot to death last month on a hiking trail near their Concord home, authorities announced on Tuesday. The New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Concord Chief of Police Bradley Osgood said in a joint statement that the man investigators want to speak with was seen in Concord on April 18 in the vicinity of where the bodies of Stephen Reid, 67, and his wife, Djeswende "Wendy" Reid, 66, were found three days later.
Dallas police arrested a suspect in connection with the May 11 shooting of three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime and could be linked to a series of recent shootings at Asian-run businesses in the city, police said. The victims, the salon owner, an employee and a customer, are all Korean, according to ABC affiliate station WFAA in Dallas.
While much of the focus this midterm cycle has been on statewide races and the momentum behind Republicans amid dismal approval numbers for President Joe Biden, several Democratic House primaries could be emblematic of the direction of the party ahead of November. In these contentious primary races in North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania, voters will choose between progressive and more moderate candidates. In many cases, moderate candidates have been the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in spending by controversial outside groups like Protect Our Future, a PAC funded by a billionaire cryptocurrency boss Sam Bankman-Fried, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel super PAC.
The China Eastern Airlines plane crash that killed 132 people is believed to have been caused by an intentional act, according to U.S. officials who spoke to ABC News. The Boeing 737-800 passenger jet was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou on March 21 when it plunged into a mountainous area in Guangxi, China. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the news.
Depp, 58, is suing Heard, 36, for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post. In response, Heard has filed a $100 million countersuit against Depp. The former couple was married from 2015 to 2017, but met when Depp cast Heard in the 2011 film "The Rum Diary."
Before your next run, consider checking out Allbirds' latest launched sneakers. The sustainable direct-to-consumer footwear brand, famously worn by everyone from Lady Gaga to Hilary Duff, released its all-new Tree Flyer shoe on Tuesday, and it's ideally designed for high-performance distance running. A slight upgrade from the brand's previous performance footwear offerings, the new style features a brand new midsole: SwiftFoam -- a foaming process that creates a low-energy midsole product process, the company says.
The dress appeared to be the same one Heidi wore to HBO's 1998 Comic Relief fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Since posting, Leni's photos have garnered more than 265,000 likes and a heart-eye emoji comment from Heidi herself. Others chimed in as well, stating how great Leni looked and sharing charming notes such as "absolutely stunning," "perfection" and "gorgeous."
Ten people, all of whom were Black, were killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, in an attack authorities are calling a "racially motivated hate crime." The victims included four grocery store employees as well as six customers, several of them regulars at the store, according to the Buffalo Police Department and those who knew them. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden mourned those who were lost in the attack with the Buffalo community on Tuesday, describing them as "the best of our community."
Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel of possible encounters with UFOs -- a significant increase from the 144 tracked in a major report released last year by the U.S. intelligence community. Indiana Rep. André Carson, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, called Tuesday's hearing, the first in more than 50 years focused on the aerial incidents. UAPs, Carson said, "are a potential national security threat and they need to be treated that way."
The Justice Department special counsel investigating the origins of the probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election is facing his first major test in federal court this week, with the start of a criminal trial against a Democrat-linked lawyer charged with lying to the FBI. Prosecutors are seeking to convince a jury that lawyer Michael Sussmann lied in bringing forth a tip to a senior FBI official in September 2016 about potential connections between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's company and a Russian bank, by allegedly telling the official that he was not working on behalf of any client at the time. According to John Durham, who has been investigating the Russia probe for more than three years and was appointed special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr just before Barr’s resignation in 2020, Sussmann was in fact bringing the info to then-FBI general counsel James Baker as part of Sussmann's work for Hillary Clinton's political campaign and a technology company executive who had worked to assemble the data.
A fire and explosion at a suburban Baltimore nail salon that injured seven people was deliberately set by an "emotionally distressed" man, authorities said Tuesday. Four police officers and two emergency medical workers were wounded in the incident. The suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was critically injured in the blast at the Libra Nails & Spa salon in Windsor Mill about 23 miles northwest of Baltimore, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.
Assuming his role as consoler in chief, President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to visit a community in mourning and call out the dangers of white supremacy on the national stage following Saturday's racially-motivated mass shooting at a supermarket that left 10 Black people dead, three wounded and others fearing for their lives. Biden wanted to meet with victims' families to "try to bring some comfort to the community, particularly to those who lost loved ones" and "grieve with them," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. During an afternoon address, Biden called on Americans to reject white supremacy, calling it a "poison" that's "running through our body politic."
Lizzo is manifesting her Broadway dreams. The track has gone viral on TikTok, with users fawning over Broadway star Aaron Tveit's vocals. Tveit won a Tony Award in 2020 for playing the musical's male lead, Christian.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years old, at least five months after completion of a primary series, officials announced Tuesday. "While it has largely been the case that COVID-19 tends to be less severe in children than adults, the omicron wave has seen more kids getting sick with the disease and being hospitalized, and children may also experience longer term effects, even following initially mild disease," FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf said in a statement Tuesday. "The FDA is authorizing the use of a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for children 5 through 11 years of age to provide continued protection against COVID-19," he added.
