How trucks became America’s new luxury status symbol
Morgan Korn, ABC News(NEW YORK) — Isaac Marchionna had always been a loyal SUV owner until he upgraded his Toyota 4Runner to a Ford F-150 Raptor, a massive truck with 450 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque, three years ago.
Marchionna, who lives in O…
Gender equality celebrated at 50th anniversary of first women-only road race, Title IX
Paul Marotta/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Around the bends and over the hills of New York City’s Central Park, the world’s original women-only road race will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, just weeks before Title IX marks the same milestone….
Biden announces joint declaration on immigration in attempt to show unity across the Americas
Mario Tama/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Flanked by the leaders of several countries, President Joe Biden announced the Los Angeles Declaration of Migration and Protection on the final day of the Summit of the Americas on Friday.
20 different countries …
A year after Surfside condo collapse, investigators still don’t know the exact cause
Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Nearly one year after the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98 people, federal investigators said Thursday that there are “many factors” that likely contribute…
UK tests a four-day workweek
Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Thousands of employees in the U.K. will be working four days a week for the next six months, in the largest such pilot program to date.
ABC News’ “Start Here” podcast reported that 70 companies, ranging from fish-and-chip sho…
Disappearances of journalist, researcher in Brazilian Amazon spark international outcry
EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — International outcry continues over the disappearances of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, who have been missing in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon …
Biden’s mounting nuclear threats from North Korea, Iran
South Korean Defense Ministry/Dong-A Daily via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — While the world’s focus has been trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling over Ukraine, two other longstanding threats to U.S. national security have…
Causes of death released for Texas family likely killed by escaped inmate
Getty Images(Centerville, Texas) — Five family members believed to have been killed by an escaped inmate in their Texas vacation home last week were fatally shot and stabbed, cause of death reports show.
Four children and their grandfather were found…
‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ already stomping over global box office
Universal PicturesIf the water in your glass is trembling, it could be from the dinosaurs stomping over the global box office.
With a strong $18 million from Thursday night sneak previews in the States alone, Jurassic Park: Dominion is off to a dino-s…
Sarah Palin vies for Alaska’s only House seat in crowded nonpartisan primary
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — When Alaska’s only House member, Rep. Don Young, died in March, it opened the floodgates to replace him.
Since Young — the longest serving Republican in the House — was first elected in 1973, this is the first…