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Three arrested after machete attack in Times Square

A trio of people were taken into police custody in New York's Times Square after they reportedly used a machete to stab a man in both legs.

May 31, 2024

Volcano erupts in Iceland, forcing evacuations

The Sundhnukur row of craters on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted this week, forcing road closures and evacuations, including of the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

May 31, 2024

U.S. Postal Service ranks worst cities, states for dog attacks on its workers

The U.S. Postal Service released the list of the states and cities where its workers suffered the most dog bites in 2023, ahead of an awareness week beginning Sunday.

May 30, 2024

House collapses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, sixth in four years

An unoccupied house collapsed in the Outer Banks in North Carolina this week, the sixth dwelling lost in the past four years, according to officials for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

May 30, 2024

Houston police find an alligator with a dead woman in its jaws

A search for a missing woman in a bayou in Clear Lake, Texas, ended in horror when a Houston Police sergeant came upon an alligator chewing on the woman's remains.

May 30, 2024

American Airlines plane narrowly avoids collision at Reagan National

American Airlines Flight 2134 to Boston barely missed hitting another plane on the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday, the second such incident in six weeks.

May 30, 2024

Panda-mania 2.0: D.C.’s National Zoo to get two new pandas from China

Great news, D.C. panda fans -- the lovable, bamboo-eating Chinese black-and-white bears are returning to the Smithsonian National Zoo. A new pair of pandas are set to arrive by the end of the year.

May 29, 2024

Backpack tied to a pole outside D.C. Superior Court spurs road closures, police investigation

Police closed roads around D.C. Superior Court just blocks from the Capitol Wednesday morning after an unattended backpack was found tied to a pole outside the building.

May 29, 2024

Ohio real estate billionaire to go down to Titanic wreckage in a submersible

Close to a year after the implosion of the OceanGate Titan submersible killed all five people aboard, an Ohio real estate billionaire is planning to go down to the wrecked Titanic in his own craft.

May 28, 2024

Scammers impersonated Best Buy the most in 2023, says FTC

Scammers looking to obtain payment methods through impersonation imitated Best Buy or its Geek Squad tech support service the most compared with other companies in 2023, per the Federal Trade Commission.

May 28, 2024

19-year-old man survives 400-foot fall into canyon in Washington state

A 19-year-old man has escaped with minimal injuries after falling 400 feet into a canyon beneath the High Steel Bridge near Shelton, Washington.

May 28, 2024

Chinese military shows off rifle-mounted robot dogs at joint exercise with Cambodia

China's army has a new weapon in its arsenal: four-legged robot dogs with rifles mounted on their back, exhibited during its Golden Dragon training with Cambodia.

May 28, 2024

Octogenarian arrested, accused of vandalizing windows with a slingshot for a decade

An 81-year-old man was arrested in Azusa, California, for using his slingshot to shoot out windows and windshields in his neighborhood for 10 years.

May 25, 2024

Monkey or ape is running wild in South Carolina

An unidentified primate is on the loose in Walterboro, South Carolina, the Colleton County Sheriff's Office said on social media Friday.

May 25, 2024

Jell-O throws its hat onto the ice as a name option for Utah’s NHL team

With the NHL's Arizona Coyotes sold and relocated north to Salt Lake City, the new owners are looking to rebrand the franchise. Snack brand Jell-O thinks the "Utah Green Jell-O's" is the way to go.

May 25, 2024

Coast Guard saves mariner from burning boat off Virginia coast

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man from a boat that had caught fire 60 miles east of Chincoteague, Virginia, Thursday.

May 25, 2024

Researchers trying to figure out why almost 290 sea lion pups have washed up dead on Calif. island

Almost 290 dead sea lion pups have washed up on Ano Nuevo Island off the coast of northern California recently. Researchers are still working to find out why.

May 24, 2024

Priest bites woman at Mass to stop her from taking Communion wafers

A Catholic priest in Florida bit a woman at Mass when she reached her hand into a bowl of Communion wafers, but church officials said he was stopping a desecration of the sacrament.

May 24, 2024

‘Super Size Me’ documentarian Morgan Spurlock dead of cancer at 53

Morgan Spurlock, director and star of the 2004 Oscar-nominated documentary "Super Size Me" wherein he purportedly ate nothing but McDonald's 30 straight days, has died of cancer at the age of 53.

May 24, 2024

Multiple Metrorail Red Line stations to close 3 months for construction, maintenance

Multiple Metrorail stations on the Glenmont end of the Red Line will close from June 1 to Aug. 31 for the construction of the Purple Line light rail and repairs.

May 24, 2024