Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Kim Potter trial updates: Potter testifies in her own defense
Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter charged in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot d...
Dec 17, 2021
DHS recommends schools 'remain alert' amid unfounded threats on TikTok
SOPA Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Department of Homeland Security is urging schools to stay vigilant Friday amid unfounded threats of violence spreading on social media. "DHS is aware of publi...
Dec 17, 2021
Behind-the-scenes of criminal profiling and what it takes to catch a killer
TheaDesign/iStock(NEW YORK) -- For centuries the world has been fascinated by serial killers. Who are they? What makes them tick? What do they choose to kill? To try to answer those questions the...
Dec 17, 2021
Breonna Taylor gets immortalized in an augmented reality app
Jon Cherry/GettyImages(NEW YORK) -- Breonna's Garden is an augmented reality app memorializing Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old who died in her own apartment on March 13, 2020 when police unleashed a b...
Dec 17, 2021
Inside the fight for 'honest teaching' about race in New Hampshire schools
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images(PLAISTOW, N.H.) -- Since the start of the school year, some teachers in New Hampshire said they've been on edge due to a new policy that they said punishes those who teach a...
Dec 17, 2021
Ninety dead across five states: The deadly tornado outbreak by the numbers
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The devastating twisters that tore through the South and the Midwest this weekend marked the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. in a decade. Here's a closer l...
Dec 17, 2021
Winter holiday travel rush likely to approach pre-pandemic levels
dan_prat/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The holiday travel rush is well underway and experts are predicting U.S. airports and roadways will be nearly as busy as they were pre-pandemic. About 109 million tr...
Dec 17, 2021
Kim Potter trial: Prosecution tears into Potter's police training
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) -- The prosecution wrapped up its arguments in the trial against Kim Potter, who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a t...
Dec 16, 2021
Workers of candle factory destroyed in tornadoes file class-action lawsuit against company
Runstudio/Getty Images(MAYFIELD, Ky.) -- Workers at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory where eight people were killed by tornadoes last weekend filed a class-action lawsuit against their em...
Dec 16, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell's defense begins after judge denies request for witness' anonymity
David Dee Delgado/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, began to present their case on Thursday after a judg...
Dec 16, 2021