US surpasses 400 mass shootings so far in 2023: National gun violence website
Bill Hutchinson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A shooting that erupted in a Houston park over the weekend that left a pregnant woman dead and four other people injured marked the 400th mass shooting in the United States in 2023, according to a national webs…
Sending F-16s to Ukraine in fight against Russia would take ‘months and months’: Blinken
Henry Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday cautioned that deliveries of the F-16s that Ukraine has long sought in its fight against Russia could take “months and months” once it’s determined the fi…
Alabama Republicans spark another legal fight by not creating 2nd majority-Black district
ilbusca/Getty Images(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has less…
3 injured in shooting outside Philadelphia bar, police say
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) — Three people have been hospitalized after a shooting took place outside a bar in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening.
All three people who were shot were listed in…
‘The Earth is screaming at us’: Gov. Inslee calls for climate action amid record heat
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The record-high temperatures recorded around the world show “the climate change bomb has gone off” and Americans must push “further and faster” for solutions — including voting against “climate deniers” like former President Do…
‘I worry’ about ‘price’ to get soldier Travis King back from North Korea, McCaul says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Sunday that he’s concerned North Korea will demand concessions from the United States in exchange for releasing American Travis King, the soldier who last week fled acros…
Severe heat forecast: Where scorching temperatures will persist over the next week
ABC News(NEW YORK) — An unrelenting heat dome continues to hover over the western United States this weekend, prompting heat alerts for tens of millions of residents.
Heat advisories and warnings were issued for 40 million Americans across 10 states …