Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — After a 17-year hiatus, the second federal execution since 2003 put to death convicted killer Wesley Purkey at 8:19 this morning. Purkey was found guilty of the brutal rape and murder of Jennifer Long. He was also convicted of using a claw hammer
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LEE’S SUMMIT, MO (KCTV) — A local Muslim woman is hoping the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct an investigation on a Missouri gun range due to what she calls racial discrimination. KCTV5’s Greg Payne spoke with the CEO of the range, who believes they did nothing wrong.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Demand for food assistance has surged since the pandemic began, according to the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank. It’s part of the reason the organization decided to establish, and then expand, a home delivery program. The service allows individuals who are homebound the ability to receive the essential service
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has joined US President Donald Trump and Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro in presiding over a country that has reported more than 1 million cases of the novel coronavirus. More than 25,000 have died after contracting the virus in India. The country’s marginalized communities are suffering the most from the epidemic
Continue Reading “I can’t breathe,” George Floyd said to Minneapolis Police officers on Memorial Day while in custody, with an officer’s knee pressing on his neck. Minutes later the 46-year-old Black man was unresponsive, pronounced dead later that afternoon. Video of the incident then went viral. Five years earlier and over a thousand miles away in Baltimore,
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Retail sales in the United States, an important data point on the health of the economy, are nearly back to where they were before the pandemic hit. But without additional government stimulus, economists caution that the nascent recovery could be in jeopardy — especially as Covid-19 cases in the country continue to rise. What’s happening:
Continue Reading Seven police officers and a senior local official have been fired in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after footage of a violent encounter between police and two farmers went viral on social media. The incident took place in the state’s Guna district on July 14, as authorities attempted to clear the farmers from
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At the same time Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane was being joyously thrown into the air by his team, Barcelona’s dejected players trudged off the pitch at the Camp Nou. Barca had just suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to 10-man Osasuna, its first on home soil since November 2018, and if that wasn’t bad enough
Continue Reading NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says he’s still learning to “embrace” the idea of being an activist after finding himself at the center of the race debate in recent weeks. In a passionate essay published in The Players’ Tribune this week, the 26-year-old addressed issues of racism in sport and society but stated he never went
Continue Reading Tuk-tuks are three-wheeled motor vehicles widely used in Sri Lanka and southern Asia. The vehicle has also gained popularity worldwide, including Africa and the Middle-East. But these three-wheelers can race — as Sri Lankan tuk-tuk drivers showed at the Red Bull Tuk It earlier this year. The fourth edition of the Tuk It race covered
Continue ReadingFor the first time in history, Latino students make up the largest ethnic or racial group of Californians admitted to the University of California for the upcoming school year. Latinos surpassed Asian Americans to comprise 36% of the 79,953 students from California who were offered admission to at least one of the nine UC campuses,
Continue Reading It’s gonna be a hot one this weekend. Close to 90% of the country is looking at temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or more. Stay hydrated, everyone. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior. Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on
Continue Reading Las Vegas police arrested a suspect they said goaded a homeless man into doing a backflip that led to a fatal injury. Keonte Jones, 28, was arrested this week. The incident happened on June 20 after Larry Coner, 55, approached the suspect asking for money. Jones told him he’d pay him $6 to perform a
Continue Reading A seeming lack of considerable outrage from Black people over recent high-profile, anti-Semitic controversies stems from the desire to not be accused of “undermining and undercutting” the current racial justice movement, journalist Jemele Hill said. “There are people who give no care about the Jewish culture, who are using DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson and some
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For the first time since March, India is allowing scheduled international flights into the country. During a press conference on Thursday, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri confirmed the establishment of “air bubbles” between India and the US, France and Germany. “Until international civil aviation can reclaim its pre-Covid situation in terms of numbers,
Continue Reading Former game show host Chuck Woolery’s son has Covid-19, a spokesperson for Woolery said Thursday. “Chuck’s son is fine and asymptomatic,” Mark Young, with Jekyll and Hyde Advertising, told CNN. Woolery made news late Sunday when President Donald Trump retweeted Woolery saying everyone is lying about Covid-19. “The most outrageous lies are the ones about
Continue Reading The Arthurian legend represents a fertile screen playground, explored and revised from practically every conceivable angle. Yet other than its visual style, Netflix’s “Cursed” represents a pale addition to that mythology, approaching the story from the perspective of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, without yielding many dramatic ripples. Adapted by Tom Wheeler (creator of
Continue Reading Sometimes the world seems so upside-down, so irrevocably messed up and bizarre, there are hardly words to describe it. Thank goodness we have emojis. In honor of World Emoji Day, let’s look at some of the latest stats from Emojipedia, the most sacred source of emoji knowledge. In April 2020, the most popular emojis on
Continue Reading Two US Navy aircraft carriers have resumed rare dual exercises in the South China Sea, the second time this month the massive warships have teamed up in the contested waters. The USS Ronald and USS Nimitz carrier strikes groups, comprising more than 12,000 US military personnel among the two aircraft carriers and their escorting cruisers
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso is in the middle of a surge of Covid-19 infections. ABC-7 anchor Stephanie Valle spoke to virologist Dr. German Rosas Acosta, who said the science is constantly changing — which is normal because this is a new virus — but he gave a look at what we know about
Continue Reading India passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, after its health ministry reported a record 34,956 new infections in just 24 hours. As India becomes the third nation after the United States and Brazil to hit that milestone, it is the country’s marginalized who are suffering the most from the devastating economic toll of lockdowns
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EL PASO, Texas — It could be a prime delivery for the Sun City. Construction has started at an east El Paso site that is proposed to be a new distribution center for online retail giant Amazon. The site is located between Rojas and Interstate 10 near Eastlake. El Paso Inc. reports that the building
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The New York Police Department arrested a 24-year-old female in connection with an attack on police officers that left three with “serious injuries,” the department said. The suspect, from New Jersey, is charged with two counts of assault on a police officer, the NYPD said in a release Thursday night. The officers were attempting to
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BALTIMORE, Maryland — For the first time, the number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single-day in the United States passed 70,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. There were 71,135 new cases reported Thursday, topping the previous high of 67,791 new coronavirus cases reported across the country two days ago. Florida
Continue Reading The cast of “30 Rock” got back together on Thursday night, but unlike some of the higher-minded reunions mounted during the coronavirus pandemic, the stunt had an overt commercial motivation to it — serving as an infomercial for all things NBC and its new streaming service, Peacock. Yes, the whole cast appeared — under the
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is delaying the release of new reference documents on safely reopening schools, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN Thursday night. The CDC was expected to release the information by the end of this week, but the spokesperson told CNN: “They’re not ready to come out this week.” The
Continue Reading Ever since the world went into lockdown back in March, many of us have been furiously making a mental list of all the places we’ll go once we’re finally able to travel again. Now borders are reopening and restrictions are slowly being lifted, hotels and resorts are reopening, and the prospect of travel has become
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EL PASO, Texas — While the politics behind face coverings is divisive, most medical experts agree the science behind masks is clear. ABC-7 put masks to the test with an experiment in conjunction with University Medical Center of El Paso. “We’re going to do the experiment without the mask to see what we capture on
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As of Thursday, 3,156 New Mexicans in their 20s have tested positive for Covid-19. Among them, 20-year-old New Mexico State University student Katie Calentine – who is urging people in her age demographic to take the virus seriously. Calentine said she thought she had a sinus infection and found out
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