Stocktrek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A balloon intercepted by fighter aircraft over Utah on Friday was a “likely hobby balloon” and has since left United States airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Saturday. The “small balloon” was allowed to continue to fly above the U.S. after being interceptedRead More →
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Flaco, the rare Eurasian owl that captured the attention of New York City and dubbed “the most famous owl in the world,” has died after an apparent collision with a building, the Central Park Zoo said in a statement. “We are saddenedRead More →
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (OWASSO, Okla.) — Newly released body camerage footage shows Nex Benedict, a nonbinary 16-year-old who died one day after a physical altercation with several other students in a bathroom at their Oklahoma high school, describing what led up to the fight during an interview with police fromRead More →
Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday submitted a request to enter new evidence in his Georgia election interference case based off Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade’s cellphone records, which the filing claims show that Wade visited the area of the home of Fulton County DistrictRead More →
Augusta University (ATHENS, Ga.) — A suspect was taken into custody a day after a woman who went for a run on the University of Georgia’s Athens campus was found dead due to “foul play,” school officials said Friday. The victim, Laken Hope Riley, 22, was found in a woodedRead More →
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Laura McGarraugh, an emergency room nurse from Austin, Texas, is confident Democrats will replace President Joe Biden atop their ticket this year. She’s just not sure with whom. Speaking to ABC News at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a longtime Republican cattle call thatRead More →
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Brian Gray, a black South Carolinian, said he isn’t affiliated with a particular political party, but has tended to vote more blue than red. He has one exception: Nikki Haley. Gray said he voted for her the two times that she ran to beRead More →
Jason Marz/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall does not intend to prosecute in vitro fertilization providers or families in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that embryos should be considered children — a decision that has thrown the whole process into chaos. “Attorney GeneralRead More →
Brett Carlsen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As this week’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling raised concerns on protections for in vitro fertilization treatments, former President Donald Trump is finally breaking his silence, calling on the state legislature “to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability ofRead More →
Leon Neal/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two years into the war on Ukraine, the economic sanctions against Russia leveled by the Biden administration are working, according to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, but she said there is more to do. “We’re working with 30-plus other countries all around the globe, to workRead More →
