A file photo of a ship sailing through the morning fog along the Yenisei River near Galanino village, about 250 km north of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 13, 2013.Ilya Naymushin/Reuters Russian tanker ships turned off their tracking systems 33 times last week, Bloomberg reported. The US Treasury has flagged the “deceptive” maritime tactic […]
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had 10 different substances in his system when he died, Colombia’s attorney general said Saturday in a statement. Hawkins, 50, was found dead in his hotel room in Bogotá on Friday night, shortly before the band was set to perform in the capital city. Among the drugs found by a […]
When a North Carolina nurse drove to the lottery headquarters in Raleigh to cash her ticket, she had no idea she was transporting such precious cargo. The $2 ticket carried by Nikita Adeogun ended up being worth $113,715, according to lottery officials. Adeogun said she was completely caught off guard. “I thought maybe $600 or […]
An Omicron subvariant known as BA.2 is expected to become dominant in the U.S. in the coming weeks. BA.2 is at least 30% more transmissible than its cousin BA.1, and it has been driving new COVID-19 surges in the United Kingdom and other European countries. According to a World Health Organization report, the highly contagious […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was ripped for missing some crucial context as he tried to attack his onetime good friend, President Joe Biden, on Thursday. Biden, speaking at an emergency summit of NATO leaders about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, explained how he’d been inspired to run for the White House following former President Donald Trump’s […]
A Florida woman was fired from her job as a bridge tender after authorities deemed her criminally responsible for the February death of a 79-year-old woman. Her supervisor, who happened to be her boyfriend’s mother, was also relieved of her position on Tuesday, March 22, because both women violated the company’s safe operations procedures. Artissua […]
Polices have arrested a man they say assaulted a gate agent at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Video of the incident has gone viral on Twitter. Officers responded to reports of a fight at a Southwest Airlines gate around 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] A gate agent […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in the troubled Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen said Thursday they found the bodies of four men dumped near a housing development. The prosecutors office in the state of Quintana Roo said the mens’ bodies did not show signs of bullet wounds, so it was unclear how they died. […]
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz (right) was one of Sen. Ted Cruz’s law professors at Harvard University.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Mario Tama/Getty Images Prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz slammed his former student Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday. Dershowitz criticized Cruz’s “absurd” questions posed to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Dershowitz took issue with Cruz’s question on whether he […]
A Chinese father had the shock of his life when a supposedly dead snake inside a jar of snake wine he bought a year ago suddenly bit him. The man from Heilongjiang Province, China, reportedly bought three jars of snake wine, believing that the drink could help cure his son, who has been suffering from […]