Houston storm: At least five killed, more than 600,000 without power
Getty Images - STOCK(HOUSTON) -- At least five people were killed when a powerful storm tore through Houston on Thursday night, officials said.Fallen trees appeared to cause at least two of the deaths, according to officials.Straight-line winds peaked ...
May 17, 2024
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools remain segregated: Data analysis
Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State's country highways.In some ways, the region looks on the surface in 2024 as it did in 1954. Yet a quick...
May 17, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola slams studio system at 'Megalopolis' press conference
Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesOne day after premiering his passion project Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, director Francis Ford Coppola gave his thoughts on the state of the current studio system.During a press conference on Friday, May 17, Coppola...
May 17, 2024
Photo of upside-down flag at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house raises concerns: Report
Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a photo of an upside-down American flag flying at ...
May 17, 2024
Missing 23-year-old climber found dead in Rocky Mountains
Getty Images - STOCK(GRAND LAKE, Colo.) -- The body of 23-year-old Lucas Macaj was recovered in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday after he took a "significant fall," according to an initial investigation, the park said.Search and resc...
May 17, 2024
'Overlooked' workers who train AI can face harsh conditions, advocates say
ABC(NEW YORK) -- Krystal Kauffman, a gig worker, spent one workday watching footage captured by a camera that had been placed on a baby's head, labeling objects as they came into view, she said. For another job, she said she looked at images of feet, w...
May 17, 2024
Betrayal turned deadly: The killing of a celebrity hair stylist
ABC(WOODLAND HILLS, Ca.) -- When famed stylist and hair care executive Fabio Sementilli' was found him stabbed to death on the patio of his home in Woodland Hills, California, on January 23, 2017, the crime was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong. Sinc...
May 17, 2024
How experts are trying to save the Florida panther
Getty Images - STOCK(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- The fate of the endangered Florida panther, also known as the North American cougar, could depend on a network of wildlife corridors and panther crossings currently being established by conservation groups and...
May 17, 2024
'I can't believe this': Truck driver recounts harrowing moments dangling off bridge
ABC(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- The driver of a semi truck that careened off the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisiana is speaking out for the first time since her miraculous 40-minute rescue."It happened so fast," Sydney Thomas told ABC News Louisville affiliate...
May 17, 2024
Exclusive: Members of 'Little Rock Nine' reflect on 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education
Getty Images - STOCK(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of the "Little Rock Nine" -- the first group of African American students to ...
May 17, 2024