Month: June 2021

A passenger attempted to breach the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Nashville on Friday, forcing the plane to make an emergency stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to officials. The cockpit was never breached, and the passenger was taken into federal custody, Stephanie Kitts with the Albuquerque International Sunport

In a ruling that compared the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, a federal judge overturned California’s longtime ban on assault weapons on Friday, ruling it violates the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. Assault weapons have been banned in California since 1989, according to the ruling. The law has been updated several times since

This summer is bringing back a lot of what we used to call “normal,” including greeting long-lost friends and maskless strangers. For many of us it’s long overdue. But for people still anxious about socializing after more than a year in isolation, the rituals around greeting someone can be nerve-wracking. Do you go in for

Every year, on the first breath of summer, Pride collections emerge like a horde of brightly-colored locusts. They blanket every storefront and Instagram feed in June, promising solidarity and celebration for LGBTQ communities. “Yaas, Queen!” the shirts proclaim. “Love is love,” the decorative buttons affirm. Then there are the rainbow-printed suits and shoes, which bear

Scientists have found that, even though right whales are protected from direct catch, they are significantly shorter compared to 40 years ago due in part to commercial fishing, according to a new study. The study — written by Joshua Stewart of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and his colleagues at the New England

Two of the three deputies disciplined in the shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr. have returned to work and the third intends to resign, the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release on Friday. Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on April 21 by Pasquotank County deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina,

Almost five decades later, police have arrested and charged a man in the death of an Illinois teen whose body was found in a field stabbed multiple times. Barry Lee Whelpley, 76, of Mounds View, Minnesota, was arrested on June 2 for the 1972 killing of Julie Ann Hanson, a 15-year-old resident of Naperville, Illinois,

Four people were arrested and seven suitcases with more than 170 pounds of marijuana was seized after it arrived in Atlanta on a flight from Seattle last week, according to Atlanta police. On May 26, an Atlanta Police Department K-9 dog alerted authorities to five suitcases that were unloaded from the flight and on their