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A still from a U.S. Coast Guard video showing the rescue of four people who became trapped on an ice floe during a seal hunting expedition naer Chefornak, Alaska, on April 12, 2026. (U.S. Coast Guard) (ALASKA) -- Four people, including a child, who got trapped on an ice floe during a seal hunting expedition in Alaska were safely rescued, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, calling it one of […]

(NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors arrested the organizer of New York City's controversial SantaCon bar crawl Wednesday after they say he allegedly kept a lot of the holiday joy for himself.Stefan Pildes, 50, is facing federal wire fraud charges that accuse him of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable funds for his own use, including for concert tickets and vacations.SantaCon is an event held annually in December in […]

The seal of the Department of Homeland Security (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (ATLANTA) -- A Department of Homeland Security employee was "brutally shot and stabbed to death," Monday, according to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, in a shooting spree across the Atlanta area, in which one other person was killed and a third is in critical condition.Lauren Bullis was walking her dog on Monday, when she was randomly […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Federal authorities are investigating after a California resident reported that a large chunk of ice fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a house and landed on a couch.The incident occurred around 11:15 a.m. on Friday at a home in Whittier in Los Angeles County, according to local officials. The resident reported hearing "what sounded like an explosion" and found a large block of dirty-looking […]

A suspected Molotov cocktail incendiary device was used to start a fire at the front door of a Tesla sales office in Louisiana, April 14, 2026, according to officials. (ATF New Orleans Field Division) (NEW ORLEANS) -- An apparent Molotov cocktail was used to start a fire outside a Tesla sales office in New Orleans, according to federal officials.The incendiary device sparked a blaze at the office's front door just […]

The Hookers' boat, "Soulmate," is seen in Marsh Harbor on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, April 8, 2026. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- Cadaver dogs are heading to help with the search for Lynette Hooker, an American woman who's missing in the Bahamas, according to police.The K-9 team from the U.S. Coast Guard will be on the ground in Hope Town on Wednesday morning, Advardo Dames, assistant commissioner of […]

(NEW YORK) -- A rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye in a rare celestial event, according to astronomers.Asteroid 99942 Apophis – named after the Egyptian deity of chaos, darkness and fire – is expected to safely pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029, according to NASA.The asteroid will pass within roughly 20,000 miles of Earth – nearly 12 times closer than the moon's average distance […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday halted a criminal contempt inquiry into former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials for last year's deportation of more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, marking the second time in less than a year that the probe has been frozen. A divided panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an end to the inquiry, concluding that the […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than 50 million people across the Midwest are bracing for severe weather on Tuesday, a day after baseball-sized hail and multiple tornadoes were reported in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kansas.The threat of damaging storms has shifted slightly south from where strong winds blew the roofs off several buildings on Monday, including the collapse of a nursing home roof in Lodi, Wisconsin.A level 3 out of 5 "enhanced risk" for severe storms […]