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Over 40 flights have been cancelled in Phoenix, Arizona because it is too hot for the planes to fly. Most of the cancelled flights were  in the middle of the day when the heat was at it’s

The Commerce Department said  the deficit in the U.S. current account rose 2.4 percent. . A deficit in means the U.S. is not selling more abroad than it is consuming from overseas. US current account deficit expands

In a race for the juniors division of the Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb Sunday, a teenage boy was mauled by a black bear. The 16 year old was running between Anchorage and Girdwood and was at

The 10,000-ton USS Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal, a 29,000-ton container ship collided early Saturday local time off Japan’s Izu Peninsula. Seven missing sailors were found dead in flooded compartments after the warship’s collision with a merchant

The pair of inmates that escaped from a Georgia prison and suspected of killing two corrections officers have been captured in Tennessee after a chase that involved gunfire. Police were called when two Tennessee residents held the

Amazon is set to buy Whole Foods, the high end food retailer, in a deal worth $13.7 billion. Amazon will pay out shareholders the maximum amount of $42 a share. Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey will

Former NBA star, Dennis Rodamn goes to North Korea to have some “basketball talk” with Kim Jong Un. Rodamn gifted the totalitarian leader with some light reading as well, “Trump: The Art of the Deal.” U.S. News

A San Francisco UPS driver who had killed 3 people, had previously complained about getting too much overtime, and asked to get less. He even filed a formal complaint about it. Jimmy Lam, 38, also shot 2 other

A fire erupted at the 24-story Grenfell Tower in London around 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning. While help responded within 6 minutes of the fire, there has already been six confirmed fatalities, and that number

Top US Republican, Steve Scalise, and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia. They were practicing for the annual congressional ballgame between the Democrats and Republicans scheduled for Thursday at Nationals Park. The suspect in

Two prison guards were shot and killed during an inmate escape at Baldwin State Prison. Inmates Donnie Russell Row and Ricky Dubose were both serving a life sentence for armed robbery,  allegedly overpowered the guards while being

The American university student who has been held captive in North Korea since January 2016 has been released. Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia, is on his way back to the United States, U.S. Secretary of State

More than 97% of voters have favored attempting to join America as the 51st state instead of staying a self governing territory. The final decision is up to U.S. Congress, which has Puerto Rico votes in referendum

First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron finally move into the White House five months after President Trump took office. Mrs Trump wanted to stay in New York for Barron, 11, to finish the school year. She’s

After 26 years on the lam, Gustavo Falcon is charged in a 1991 indictment claiming he was part of a major cocaine smuggling operation during the 1980s. He’s dubbed as Miami’s last “cocaine cowboys” and face charges

It’s a he said, she said debate between President Donald Trump and then-FBI head James Comey. Thursday, Mr. Comey went on record to discuss discrepancies over his meetings with President Trump.  Trump v Comey Via www.bbc.co.uk A

A couple who worked for Boeing for more than 30 years asked to pay the entire lunch debt of their neighborhood elementary school. When Tom and his wife, Christy, found out it was only $259, they asked what

Hawaii is the first state in the country to implement laws than mirror portions of the Paris climate deal. Gov. David Ige signed two laws that will aim to reduce greenhouse emissions on Tuesday. Hawaii enacts laws

Roy Larner, 47, a fan of the London football club Millwall, has been dubbed the “Lion of London Bridge” after he single handedly fought three knife wielding jihadis with his bare hands during the London Bridge terror

A Las Vegas police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man put in a chokehold.  The chokehold was an unapproved method of subduing.  Cop charged in death of man put in

A year ago, a Maryland judge overturned Adnan Syed’s conviction and ordered a new trial but it is still in the appeal process. Adnan was introduced to the public in the podcast “Serial” which centered around the

The trial of a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter is underway. Michelle Carter, 17 years old at the time, allegedly sent text messages in 2014 encouraging her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. One text

See the most important parts of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 keynote. Over three hours of announcements, updates, and new products including the HomePod have been condensed into fifteen minutes.  Watch Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote in 15

Apple’s big developer lovefest, WWDC, kicks off Monday with a keynote that’ll set the stage for software updates, developer platforms and possibly some hardware reveals like a Siri Speaker to do battle with Amazon’s Echo and Google’s

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, delivering the news in a Rose Garden speech. The president stated he has no interest in remaining in a deal he considers

The six-engine, dual-hulled Stratolaunch aircraft is designed to launch satellites into orbit has been launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. With wings spanning 385 feet, it is the world’s largest airplane by wingspan. World’s largest airplane is rolled out

NASA plans to launch a probe to ‘touch the Sun’.  Scientists will investigate how the corona reaches blistering temperatures, how the solar wind gets its speed and how space weather affects Earth. NASA’s first mission to the

President Trump tweeted Wednesday night that he’ll announce his decision on the Paris climate change accord at 3 p.m. Thursday in the White House Rose Garden. Word is Trump has already made the decision, fulfilling a campaign

The site of the infamous partial nuclear meltdown will close nearly 40 years later, the Pennsylvania plant announced it will shut down the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in September of 2019.  Three Mile Island to close

The United States successfully shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile target using its upgraded long-range interceptor missile in a missile test on Tuesday. This coincides with aggressive missile testing by North Korea. US conducts successful missile intercept