Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Florida man was arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) last month after he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade contraption similar to a human-sized hamster wheel. Reza Baluchi, 44, was arrested on Aug. 26 about 110 kilometres (70 miles) off Tybee Island
Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert. Organizers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival and attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet. The
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Tens of thousands of revellers attending the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert have been asked to shelter in place and conserve food and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the site into mud. Access to and from Black Rock City, the event’s site, was
A 16-year-old girl was stabbed and killed in Washington, D.C., on Sunday after an altercation began over a McDonald’s sweet-and-sour sauce, police said. Naima Liggon, of Waldorf, Md., was stabbed outside a McDonald’s in a busy area of D.C. known for its nightlife, according to a press release from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.Police were called
Idalia was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening as it moved over Georgia and along the Carolina coast after leaving a trail of devastation through northern Florida, where it brought a “catastrophic storm surge” as a Category 3 hurricane. Shortly after hitting Florida Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Idalia was packing
The top Republican in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, appeared to freeze up and was unable to answer a question from a reporter at an event in his home state of Kentucky on Wednesday, the second such episode in just over a month. Video taken by other reporters at the event appeared to show the
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of
An abducted woman was able to help rescue herself after she slipped a note to a customer at a gas station, asking them to call 911, according to a statement from police in Arizona. The incident took place on Tuesday at a Chevron gas station in Seligman, Ariz., a day after the woman was allegedly
Donald Trump posed for an unprecedented mugshot while surrendering at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia — a sobering image that underlined the stark legal threat against him that could nevertheless boost his political momentum. The former U.S. president, who is seeking a return
A 19-year-old from Ohio may spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was convicted and sentenced for intentionally crashing her car into a brick wall at 160 km/h (100 mph), killing her boyfriend and a friend. Mackenzie Shirilla was only 17 years old on the night she crashed her Camry into the