Dame Esther Rantzen has died at 86 following a public battle with stage four lung cancer. The veteran British broadcaster and charity founder passed away on Tuesday, her family confirmed in an emotional statement. Rantzen, 86, had spent her final…
Yaniv Hayoun met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still wearing the bloodstained T-shirt he had on when he wrestled a knife-wielding co-pilot from the cockpit of a plunging flydubai jet. Hayoun, an Israeli plumber, was among the passengers who rushed…
The Supreme Court has dissolved a last-minute stay and cleared Tennessee to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row. Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted the application to vacate the injunction on Wednesday evening, overturning an emergency ruling…
Nina Pacchia is speaking out about her husband, firefighting pilot Ryan Cutter, after he was killed battling a Yosemite wildfire. Cutter, a Utah helicopter pilot, and Greg King, an Alaskan pilot, both died when their aircraft crashed while fighting the…
Rebel Wilson’s legal team is pushing back after producers of her film “The Deb” accused her of lying under oath and manipulating evidence in their ongoing defamation battle. The producers’ attorney leveled the explosive claims in court papers filed Tuesday,…
T.J. Maxx has permanently closed its longtime Ellsworth Place location in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, after roughly a decade in operation. The 24,000-square-foot storefront on Colesville Road first opened in late 2015 and had served as a key foot-traffic anchor…
Police in Santa Ana, California, are hunting a woman who allegedly used food to lure a puppy beneath her minivan before crushing it with the vehicle and driving away. The pit bull mix was found dead in the street near…
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a last-minute stay and allowed Tennessee to proceed with executing Christa Pike. Pike, 50, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.…
A student died Wednesday after falling from a fourth-floor building at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, police said. The boy’s fatal plunge was reported around 1 p.m. At the Highland Park campus, according to the Los Angeles Police…
San Francisco’s Ferry Building sat dark for three hours Wednesday morning after an unplanned Pacific Gas & Electric outage cut power to the landmark waterfront hub. The blackout began at 6:42 a.m. And stretched until 9:30 a.m., affecting roughly 455…
A newly revealed police transcript shows the Cornell student who accused seven fraternity brothers of sexual assault told campus investigators she could say “with 100% confidence I was raped,” undercutting the district attorney’s explanation for why no criminal charges were…
A 72-year-old man has been arrested in the hit-and-run death of former Nickelodeon actress Kianna Underwood. Michael Griffiths was taken into custody in Brooklyn on Tuesday and charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, according to…
A pod of killer whales drew stunned reactions from passengers on a Newport Beach whale-watching cruise this week. The group aboard a Newport Landing Whale Watching trip spotted 10 to 13 orcas swimming alongside their boat on Monday in waters…
Yaniv Hayun has spoken publicly about the moment he stormed the cockpit of a plunging Boeing 737 and placed a knife-wielding co-pilot in a chokehold. The Israeli passenger, whose actions helped save 174 lives aboard flydubai flight FZ1073, recounted the…
A top-hatted assailant remained at large Wednesday evening after stabbing three men during a predawn confrontation over food at a busy Lower East Side intersection. The NYPD released a photo of the suspected attacker, last seen wearing a black stovepipe…
The outlet analysis published Thursday found that only 13 percent of investigated sexual misconduct claims at Cornell University end with the accused student or staffer expelled or dismissed. The data review examined more than 1,200 allegations of sexual assault, domestic…