North Korea reportedly launched ballistic missile tests
Japanese and South Korean media showed early reports indicating North Korea fired two short-range missiles over the weekend. The reports have not yet been confirmed.
Japanese and South Korean media showed early reports indicating North Korea fired two short-range missiles over the weekend. The reports have not yet been confirmed.
Katy Perry did not mince words when recently expressing her feelings about social media. Posting from her Twitter account on Thursday, which has almost 110 million followers, the 36-year-old singer launched into a rant about online culture. "Social media is trash," she tweeted, providing no further context.
Eight people were shot and killed and several others were injured in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis Thursday night, according to authorities. The suspect was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Craig McCartt, deputy chief of Criminal Investigations at Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, said at a Friday news conference. When officers arrived at the FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport just after 11 p.m., they found a "chaotic and active crime scene," McCartt said.
Jeannie Mai and Jeezy recently tied the knot, but on Thursday, the "Dancing with the Stars" alum shared the adorable way her husband got down on one knee and proposed to her last year. Appearing on the new episode of "Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump," Mai, 42, disclosed a few details about her engagement to the rapper. "He was going to propose to me in Vietnam and because of the pandemic, he ended up recreating a kind of Vietnamese experience," the 42-year-old stylist shared, saying he whisked her away on a date night in April 2020 and asked her to wait outside his home.
Dwayne Johnson said he believes he would not be where he is today had it not been for one "life-changing" handshake. On Thursday, the "Jumanji" star shared a clip from his television show "Young Rock," which honors his late football coach who taught him the importance of second chances.
Former "Bachelor" star Colton Underwood is fully embracing his sexuality since coming out as gay earlier this week to Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview on "Good Morning America." Since Underwood's announcement, a clip from his season of "The Bachelor," one in which Billy Eichner appeared as a guest, has resurfaced and gone viral on social media.
After the brutal murder of his first wife, Mark Winger moved on. Police quickly concluded the 1995 killing of Donnah Winger was a tragic incident, committed at the hands of a seemingly mentally unwell driver who'd once driven her home from the airport. It was an earth-shattering tragedy for Donnah's family and Winger went on to marry the beautiful young nanny that he'd hired to care for his and his late wife's recently adopted newborn.
An April snowstorm is raging in the Rockies, Plains and the Northeast, with some areas getting more than a foot of snow. Snow will continue Friday in the central and southern Rockies, all the way to New Mexico, where some areas could see up to a foot of snow. Meanwhile in the Northeast, a nor’easter is bringing heavy snow from upstate New York into New England, where a winter storm warning and winter weather advisory have been issued.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause, likely to last another seven to 10 days while a federal advisory committee evaluates a possible link to a rare but severe blood clotting disorder, may deal a blow to vulnerable populations -- the homebound, homeless and incarcerated among them -- because it had been easier to get those individuals one shot than two, health experts said. In addition to being a single dose, the J&J vaccine "is easier to store than the two mRNA vaccines that require freezing," said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University. "That adds to the complexity of trying to set up vaccinations in settings that are not clinical."
Stun guns -- less lethal use-of-force electroshock weapons that use up to 50,000 volts of electricity to temporarily incapacitate and immobilize targets -- are widely used by police departments around the country. Critics say stun guns may also be at odds with police de-escalation policies, which the Department of Justice defines as "using the least amount of force necessary to resolve a situation." The use of stun guns has come into focus once again in the case of the shooting of Daunte Wright, who was killed by an officer in Minnesota who may have mistaken her firearm for a stun gun during a traffic stop.
When the pandemic hit more than a year ago, rates of depression soared, with 28% of respondents in one survey reporting depressive symptoms compared with 9% before COVID-19. As levels of depression rise, public health experts typically expect suicide rates to follow. After one study, published in JAMA, found that suicide rates declined in the United States from 2019 to 2020, a second study, published in Lancet Psychiatry and which included data from 21 different countries, suggested that suicide numbers were unchanged or lower in the pandemic's early months.
When President Joe Biden sat down with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos last month, Biden said Russian president Vladimir Putin would "pay a price" for involvement in the far-reaching SolarWinds cyber hack and election interference. In brief, careful remarks on Thursday, the president addressed those new sanctions imposed on Russia, emphasizing that the actions aren't intended to be overly inflammatory.
A traffic stop quickly turned deadly Sunday when a white Minnesota police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man. Kim Potter, 48, meant to deploy her Taser instead of her gun when she fatally shot Wright in his car, according to then-Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon. Two days after the incident, both she and Gannon resigned, and Potter has since been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
"It becomes a burden because you have to buy more air filters for each room," she said. Oliver, a field organizer for Moms Clean Air Force, lives in north Denver, which at one point was one of the most polluted zip codes in the U.S. The Suncor refinery, located just north of where she lives, is located in a predominantly Black and brown community. Dr. Myrriah Gómez, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, said to understand environmental racism, it's important to understand precedent.
You might not know Chris Housman's name yet, but the independent country music singer-songwriter is making waves with his new song, "Blueneck" -- one he said he wishes he had heard when growing up. The song, which dropped April 7, features progressive lyrics -- especially for one in the genre -- such as: "Can't a country kid wanna see the glass ceiling shatter / Wanna see a world where Black Lives Matter." In "Blueneck," Housman, who is gay, describes a person like himself, who is a "liberal redneck," someone who is liberal in political and social ideology but lives or grew up in a conservative setting or a "red state."
April 11-17, 2021, is Black Maternal Health Week, a time to put a spotlight on and have a national conversation about Black maternal health in the U.S., according to Black Mamas Matter Alliance, a nonprofit organization that founded the initiative four years ago. Dr. Sharon Ingram, a board-certified OBGYN in Florida, was in medical school when her four-month-old son, Alton Jr., died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) while at a day care center. The death of Alton Jr., who was called A.J., was considered a case of infant mortality because he died before his first birthday.
Body camera footage of the fatal Chicago police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo was released Thursday by the city's Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The March 29 footage shows an unidentified officer chasing Toledo down a street. Cook County Assistant State's Attorney James Murphy initially claimed that Toledo had a gun in his hands, but Cook County State's Attorney spokesperson Sarah Sinovic later told ABC News that Murphy "failed to fully inform himself before speaking in court" and that "the video speaks for itself."
The United States on Thursday announced a sweeping series of sanctions against Russia over election interference, cyber hacking and other "harmful foreign activities," it said, including reports of Russia offering "bounties" for Taliban attacks against U.S. troops, and Russia's occupation and alleged human rights abuses in Crimea. "I was clear with president Putin that we could have gone further, but I chose not to do so, I chose to be proportionate," President Joe Biden said Thursday afternoon from the East Room of the White House.
Police shot and killed an individual who began firing indiscriminately at people outside San Antonio International Airport in Texas on Thursday, police said. The person, described as being in his 40s, drove up to Terminal B at about 2:30 p.m. local time and was confronted by a police officer, who had been warned of the vehicle driving the wrong way into the terminal. When confronted by the officer, the man got out of the car and started shooting wildly at the officer, the terminal and behind him, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
Everlane, the creator of eco-chic apparel, is now diving into the world of swimwear. The beach-ready lineup includes three bikini top styles (square-neck, tie-front and triangle), two bikini bottoms (hipster and traditional bikini style) and two one-pieces (square-neck and V-neck). Everlane fit-tested the bathing suits on 112 different women to make sure each one felt comfortable, looked flattering and stayed put, making for an inclusive sizing range of XXS through XXL.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, pressed by a Republican lawmaker Thursday over when Americans will "get their liberties back," gave his clearest explanation yet as to when COVID-19 restrictions could be safely lifted, saying the U.S. must get its infection rate under 10,000 new cases a day. When asked by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at a congressional hearing to give an answer about when Americans can return to their pre-pandemic lives, Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, explained that the nation has a lot of work to do before it reaches that point. "That would be that the number of infections per day are well below 10,000 per day," Fauci said.