GMA honors teacher who went from lead custodian to substitute teacher
ABC News(PLYMOUTH, Minn.) — In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week , “GMA” is honoring educators, including educators like Mike Peterson, a custodian-turned-substitute at Plymouth Middle School in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Before becoming the school’s favo…
American Film Institute tribute to Nicole Kidman delayed over writers strike
ABCOn Monday, the American Film Institute announced its 49th AFI Life Achievement Award gala, which was to honor Oscar and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman on June 10, will be postponed because of the Writers Guild of America strike.
In a statement obtained …
Attorneys for Jordan Neely family, Daniel Penny speak out on NYC subway killing
Jason Marz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The family of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who died after allegedly being put into a chokehold by Daniel Penny during an altercation on a New York City subway on May 1, has responded to Penny’s statement on the deat…
Buffalo shooting: Remembering the 10 lives taken a year ago in Tops massacre
Courtesy of Amanda Drury(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Ten people, all African American, were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, a year ago this week, an attack that shook the nation and underscored a rise in white …
Exclusive: Bill Gates on the future of nuclear energy, AI
ABC News(KEMMERER, Wyo.) — TerraPower, founded by billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2008, is opening a new nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The plant will be the first of its kind, with the company hoping to revolutionize the…
Former Navy reservist sentenced to additional four years for Jan. 6 riot
Mint Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A former Navy reservist who the government said expressed admiration for Hitler, among other antisemitic views, was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capito…
Suspect arrested for Dallas train shooting that killed one, injured two
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(DALLAS, Texas) — One person is dead and two are injured after a fight broke out between two people Sunday on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train, a spokesperson said.
A man involved in the altercation was transported but has …
‘Mayhem inside’: Texas shooting shows challenge of protecting malls
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(DALLAS, Texas) — A mass shooting at a mall near Dallas on Saturday — which left nine dead, including the suspect, as well as seven injured — turned a shopping destination into a site of horrifying carnage.
The attack comes …
A year after racist shooting rampage, Buffalo struggles to correct decades of segregation and systemic racism
ABC News(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — While testifying in front of a federal commission last summer, Professor Henry Louis Taylor issued a startling summation of the evidence he said he’s drawn from the racially motivated May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a supermar…
Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than previously thought, scientists say
Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — One of the coldest regions on the planet appears to be losing its ability to retain the frigid climate necessary to regulate temperatures in the rest of the world.
Scientists have determined that in th…