By chance, astronomer Christina Williams spotted a faint trace of light that led her to the discovery of a mythical galaxy. The University of Arizona astronomer saw the shimmering blob in new data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile. But something didn’t match up. The light was on its own in an area
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Click here for updates on this story SARASOTA, FL (WPTV) — A major crime crackdown has landed 95 people behind bars on a variety of drug and weapons charges, the Sarasota Police Department says. Operation SURGE was a partnership between Sarasota police, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and
Continue Reading A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the City of Chicago against actor Jussie Smollett, court documents show. A legal battle is being fought in federal court as Chicago seeks to recover more than $130,000 to cover police overtime during the investigation of Smollett’s report of a hate crime attack in January.
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US special envoy for Syria and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Jim Jeffrey said Tuesday that he was not consulted or advised in advance on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops from northeastern Syria. “I was not personally consulted,” Jeffrey said in response to a question from Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Following a chase Tuesday morning, authorities have been looking for a fugitive Nebraska State Patrol joined Council Bluffs Police on Tuesday morning in a door-to-door search in North Omaha for a man they believed to be wanted fugitive Jamie Kennedy. Authorities say Kennedy is
Continue Reading Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he never had — or at least doesn’t recall having — a conversation with President Donald Trump in which he described Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as perfect. McConnell’s statement comes after Trump asserted earlier this month that McConnell deemed the White House transcript of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — The search is on for a “guardian angel” who helped a tourist from Arkansas during an accident in the mountains. Robert and Jan Parsons were visiting Soco Falls in Jackson County on Thursday when Robert slipped and fell some 40 feet from a mountain
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Every birth story is one parents love to tell over and over, but Sekani’s is truly unique. She came into the world during a tornado — taking her first breath by candlelight in a laundry room. The day started out beautiful Sekani’s mom was a week overdue when she came to the Bump Birthing Center
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Come the end of the season, Tottenham could well view this evening as the crucial turning point in what has so far been a painful campaign for its fans. Memories of last season’s improbable run to the Champions League final have rapidly started to fade, as just two wins in its previous 11 matches has
Continue Reading Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Tuesday that political correctness is “going to destroy our nation,” when pressed by a Democratic lawmaker to apologize for comments he reportedly made at a meeting in September. At a House Financial Services Committee hearing on housing policy, Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia said she wanted
Continue Reading After nearly four decades on the run, Walter James Mason, 86, has been arrested in connection with a decades-old murder case. Mason was discovered in central Texas by East County Sheriff’s deputies living under the alias Walter James Allison, according to sheriff’s deputies in Idaho, where the killing happened nearly 40 years ago. It was
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In a letter, a lawmaker is urging the US Food and Drug Administration to issue its compliance policy that would clear the market of unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes. The letter follows President Donald Trump’s September 11 announcement that the FDA would be putting out “some very strong recommendations” regarding the use of flavored e-cigarettes in “a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WXMI) — A West Michigan community is rallying around a family devastated by a fire that killed a 7-year-old Calhoun County boy and left his parents severely burned in a Kalamazoo hospital. Harley Gibson, 62, and his wife Jackie, 48, have been medically sedated since
Continue Reading On October 11 the world watched as the former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch strode boldly into the Capitol. In a basement room away from cameras, she addressed the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees. Her deposition lasted more than nine hours. A foreign service officer for 33 years, Yovanovitch was directed this
Continue Reading Election results show Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party will return to power, but as a minority government after Monday’s general election, according to CBC News and CTV News. The victory ensures that Trudeau will serve as Prime Minister for a second term. Trudeau spoke to a cheering crowd in Montreal about his victory. “From
Continue Reading Top US diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor told lawmakers Tuesday that US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told him that President Donald Trump had said he wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly state he would investigate Bursima and the 2016 election in order to provide the Ukrainians with a meeting and security
Continue Reading A source close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has hit out at what they called the hysterical reaction to comments Prince Harry made about his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, in a recent television documentary. The source confirmed to CNN that the brothers have been in touch and that parts of the media
Continue Reading President Donald Trump continues to show disdain for the Constitution by his suggestion to hold the G7 summit at his Doral golf resort, lawyers for more than 200 Democrats in Congress told a federal appeals court Tuesday in an emoluments lawsuit. “Increasingly brazen, President Trump just last week announced that he was awarding the next
Continue Reading Months after President Donald Trump declared the GOP would become the “party of health care,” House conservatives are set to announce a sweeping health care proposal — one that has virtually no chance of becoming law. The Republican Study Committee on Tuesday unveiled what members described as a “framework,” nine months in the making, even
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORFOLK, VA (WTKR) — That close-knit feeling at the Ocean View Fishing Pier is now rattled after a robbery took place Monday. “It’s just an eerie feeling that people are out there like that,” one of the pier’s managers, Gene Parker, explained. Surveillance video shows the two suspects
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Baldwin County, AL (WALA) — Its International Walk to School Day, and Baldwin County School officials, teachers, parents, and students made the best of a cooler morning, hitting the sidewalks in Fairhope. Fairhope’s Walking School Bus began as a once a year event, but after students, parents, and
Continue Reading A federal appeals panel appeared to take issue on Tuesday with a decision by the Trump administration that could subject immigrants to indefinite detention. The challenge is to a ruling announced by Attorney General William Barr earlier this year that some asylum seekers who have established fears of returning to their origin countries and are
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Disney+’s upcoming live-action series “The Mandalorian” may be set in the “Star Wars” universe, but longtime obsessives aren’t the only audience filmmaker Jon Favreau is hoping to reach with the show. Speaking at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, the “Iron Man” director recounted his conversations with George Lucas, in which the “Star Wars” godfather expressed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WEST ALLIS, WI (WDJT) — West Allis police say four teens were arrested after fleeing officers in a stolen vehicle on Monday, Oct. 21. Officers attempted to stop a stolen vehicle near 60th and Walker Street in West Allis around 10:23 p.m. Monday night. The vehicle fled and
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A top Boeing executive left the company Tuesday, the first to do so in the wake of the 737 Max crisis. What the mounting crisis is costing the rest of the company will become clearer to investors on Wednesday when the company reports earnings. Out of a job is Kevin McAllister, who had been president
Continue Reading California voters registered with “no party preference” can choose among the Democratic, Libertarian, and American Independent parties to vote for a 2020 primary candidate, its secretary of state announced on Monday. The Republican, Green, and Peace and Freedom, however, have opted to keep their primaries solely for voters registered with their respective parties. The DNC’s
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(CNN Business) — Spotify premia a sus suscriptores Premium con un regalo gratis: un Google Home Mini. El minialtavoz de Google, con tecnología de Google Assistant, se considera un buen altavoz inteligente de nivel básico. Los suscriptores nuevos y existentes de Spotify Premium pueden reclamar uno de los parlantes inteligentes visitando el sitio web de
Continue Reading For the first time, advertisements for one brand of snus can say that using the smokeless tobacco product “instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.” The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday it was allowing the marketing through the
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The Houston Astros’ front office ought to be talking about World Series preparations after a thrilling win brought them the American League crown. Instead, the team is dealing with one of its executives verbally accosting women journalists. Hours after the team trashed a Sports Illustrated report accusing assistant general manager Brandon Taubman of yelling at
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