Athlete, rapper Flau’jae Johnson ready to profit from new NCAA rules
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Lakia Johnson, the mother of Flau’jae Johnson, remembers her daughter’s basketball journey like only a mother can.
“She goes, ‘I want to play basketball.’ And I said, ‘Basketball? Well, there’s no 4-year-old girls playing basketb…
Health officials fight monkeypox stigma as virus spreads
bymuratdeniz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Mark Hall, a nurse practitioner who was diagnosed with monkeypox, says he isn’t exactly sure who he contracted the disease from.
However, he found out he was exposed by someone a week before he started showing sy…
Seventy-six-million-year-old dinosaur heads to auction
RapidEye/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A skeleton of one of history’s most ferocious predators is headed to auction in July.
Sotheby’s announced that a fossilized Gorgosaurus, a relative of T. Rex, is set to be the highlight of the Natural History auction…
Who is Viktor Bout, the convicted arms dealer held in a US prison?
Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Shortly after U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers finally arrested him in a hotel in Thailand in 2008, Viktor Bout turned to one of the agents escorting him and said, “I guess the game is over.”…
Families of US citizens held abroad call for Biden administration to do more
Courtesy Li family (NEW YORK) — In September 2016, Kai Li stepped off a plane from the United States to his native China to visit relatives and attend a memorial for his late mother. He never returned.
The Chinese government had imprisoned the 59-yea…
Woman battling tumor fights for medical records from sperm donor
Courtesy of Saliyl Dotson(NEW YORK) — Laura High has a tumor at the base of her brain, but she says that’s not her defining characteristic.
High is a stand-up comedian whose routine consists of jokes about being a millennial and living in New York Ci…
Police release footage of suspects wanted in livestreamed robbery of Brooklyn bishop
NYPD(NEW YORK) — Police released footage of three suspects wanted in connection with the armed robbery of a Brooklyn, New York bishop during a livestream of his service.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead said he and his wife were robbed of “hundreds of thousand…
“The Resort” is a serious mystery that’s also a lot of fun
David Yeh/PeacockIt’s time to check in to The Resort!
Peacock’s new mystery series The Resort starts streaming today, starring William Jackson Harper and Cristin Milioti as a couple celebrating their anniversary at a fancy Yucatan Peninsula resort, bu…
Scoreboard roundup — 7/27/22
iStock(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Detroit 4, San Diego 3
Milwaukee 10, Minnesota 4
Colorado 6, Chi White Sox 5
St. Louis 6, Toronto 1
NY Mets 3, NY Yankees 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
LA …