Brianna Sacks
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New Zealand Police Say They Stopped The Mosque Shooter From Carrying Out Another Attack
"Lives were saved," police commissioner Mike Bush said. Officers stopped the suspect by ramming into his car as he swerved through traffic.
Brianna Sacks
• 3 hours ago
California Wildfire Survivors Say They’re Living In Dire Conditions And There’s Little Help
Residents living in the aftermath of the Camp fire, the deadliest blaze in state history, say it feels like they've been forgotten.
Brianna Sacks
• One day ago
Trade Me, New Zealand's Largest Classifieds Site, Says It Will Stop Selling Semiautomatic Guns After Mosque Attack
"But it is clear public sentiment has changed in relation to semi-automatic weapons and we acknowledge that," Trade Me CEO Jon Macdonald said.
Brianna Sacks
• 2 days ago
The Victims Of The Christchurch Attack Include Parents, Children, And Refugees
Still waiting for official confirmation and for the bodies of loved ones, family members and friends of victims have taken to social media, posting photos of loved ones they can no longer get a hold of.
Brianna Sacks
• 3 days ago
USC Says It Will Deny Admission To All Students Connected To The Cheating Scheme
The school will also begin a "case-by-case review of current students and graduates that may be connected to the scheme."
Brianna Sacks
• 5 days ago
The Leader Of An Alleged Secret International Sex Cult Has Been Charged With Child Porn
Keith Raniere, a self-help guru who allegedly recruited women into his group and forced them to be sex slaves, also victimized teenage girls, according to new court filings.
Brianna Sacks
• 6 days ago
Southern California Edison Has Been Blamed For Starting One Of The Largest Wildfires In California History
A power line snapped and created an "electrical arc," sparking one of the largest wildfires in modern California history, investigators said.
Brianna Sacks
• 6 days ago
Felicity Huffman And Lori Loughlin Are Among Dozens Charged In A Massive College Admissions Scam
The scheme involved facilitating cheating on college entrance exams and bribing administrators to designate students as athletic recruits.
Julia Reinstein
• 7 days ago
Tucker Carlson Made Racist And Misogynist Remarks In Newly Surfaced Audio. He's Refusing To Apologize.
Women are "like dogs," Iraqis are "primitive monkeys," and Obama wouldn't have been president if he were white, the Fox News host said.
Brianna Sacks
• 7 days ago
An Unvaccinated Boy Got Tetanus And It Cost Over $800,000 To Save His Life
A new federal report details the frightening, exhausting, and extremely expensive experience of one family whose child contracted a vaccine-preventable disease.
Brianna Sacks
• 11 days ago
Chris Watts Revealed Heartbreaking New Details About How He Killed His Pregnant Wife And Two Young Daughters
The 33-year-old who confessed to strangling his family in November told investigators how he committed the murders in a newly released report.
Brianna Sacks
• 12 days ago
R. Kelly Is Back In Jail After Failing To Pay $161,663 In Child Support
The R&B singer was ordered held until he comes up with the full amount to pay his ex-wife.
Brianna Sacks
• 13 days ago
A Teen Girl Allegedly Stabbed And Killed A Former Classmate And Then Posted About It On Snapchat
Kaitlin Leonor Castilleja, 18, died early Friday morning from her stab wounds after the two got into a fight in the suspect's driveway, police said.
Brianna Sacks
• 13 days ago
Police Have Charged An 11-Year-Old Girl With Child Abuse After A Baby Boy She Was Watching Died
“This is one of the hardest things to have to endure,” the baby’s family said. The boy, Paxton Davis, had recently turned 1, according to his aunt.
Brianna Sacks
• 18 days ago
Photos Show California Residents Paddling Around As Catastrophic Floods Turn Towns Into Islands
An intense atmospheric river event sparked catastrophic floods, stranding Northern California communities and damaging thousands of homes.
Brianna Sacks
• 18 days ago
California's Largest Utility Company Believes Its Equipment Started The Deadliest Fire In State History
The utility company "believes it is probable that its equipment will be determined to be an ignition point" for the Camp fire, which killed at least 85 people and reduced a town to ashes.
Brianna Sacks
• 19 days ago
A Man Was Found Guilty Of Strangling His Childhood Friend For Her Inheritance Money
The New Jersey murder case was almost derailed after a juror posted about the trial on Facebook.
Brianna Sacks
• 21 days ago
There’s Going To Be A New Election In North Carolina After Evidence Of Fraud Was Revealed
The state’s election board voted unanimously to redo the November midterm election at the center of an elaborate, chaotic voting fraud scandal.
Brianna Sacks
• 26 days ago
Immigrants At A Detention Center Were Fed Slimy Meat And Lived In "Inhumane" Conditions. Now There's A Special Hearing
Inspectors found moldy bread, blood from raw chicken leaking in refrigerator units, and other conditions that posed "significant threats" to immigrant detainees.
Brianna Sacks
• 26 days ago
Trump Said He Ordered His Administration To Withhold Wildfire Aid To California. FEMA Says He Never Did.
The president tweeted that he was cutting off disaster assistance to wildfire survivors to punish California officials. But no record of such an order exists.
Brianna Sacks
• 27 days ago