Amazon is set to buy Whole Foods, the high end food retailer, in a deal worth $13.7 billion. Amazon will pay out shareholders the maximum amount of $42 a share. Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey will remain in his position and continue to operate out of home base in Austin, Texas. ... [Read Full Story]
Former NBA star, Dennis Rodamn goes to North Korea to have some “basketball talk” with Kim Jong Un. Rodamn gifted the totalitarian leader with some light reading as well, “Trump: The Art of the Deal.”... [Read Full Story]
A San Francisco UPS driver who had killed 3 people, had previously complained about getting too much overtime, and asked to get less. He even filed a formal complaint about it. Jimmy Lam, 38, also shot 2 other co-workers, who survived, before he turned the gun on himself.... [Read Full Story]
A fire erupted at the 24-story Grenfell Tower in London around 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning. While help responded within 6 minutes of the fire, there has already been six confirmed fatalities, and that number is expected to rise as most of the 50 injuried will have complex recoveries. ... [Read Full Story]
Top US Republican, Steve Scalise, and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia. They were practicing for the annual congressional ballgame between the Democrats and Republicans scheduled for Thursday at Nationals Park. The suspect in the shooting is currently in custody. ... [Read Full Story]
Two prison guards were shot and killed during an inmate escape at Baldwin State Prison. Inmates Donnie Russell Row and Ricky Dubose were both serving a life sentence for armed robbery, allegedly overpowered the guards while being transported by bus to a work assignment. ... [Read Full Story]
The American university student who has been held captive in North Korea since January 2016 has been released. Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia, is on his way back to the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.... [Read Full Story]
More than 97% of voters have favored attempting to join America as the 51st state instead of staying a self governing territory. The final decision is up to U.S. Congress, which has... [Read Full Story]
First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron finally move into the White House five months after President Trump took office. Mrs Trump wanted to stay in New York for Barron, 11, to finish the school year. She’s the first First Lady to delay the move to Washington in recent years, with Michelle Obama actually moving early to get her children settled.... [Read Full Story]
After 26 years on the lam, Gustavo Falcon is charged in a 1991 indictment claiming he was part of a major cocaine smuggling operation during the 1980s. He’s dubbed as Miami’s last “cocaine cowboys” and face charges that could land him in prison for life.... [Read Full Story]
It’s a he said, she said debate between President Donald Trump and then-FBI head James Comey. Thursday, Mr. Comey went on record to discuss discrepancies over his meetings with President Trump. ... [Read Full Story]
A couple who worked for Boeing for more than 30 years asked to pay the entire lunch debt of their neighborhood elementary school. When Tom and his wife, Christy, found out it was only $259, they asked what it would cost them to erase the lunch debt at all 10 elementary schools in the Marysville School District, which totaled $5,495.... [Read Full Story]
Hawaii is the first state in the country to implement laws than mirror portions of the Paris climate deal. Gov. David Ige signed two laws that will aim to reduce greenhouse emissions on Tuesday.... [Read Full Story]
Roy Larner, 47, a fan of the London football club Millwall, has been dubbed the “Lion of London Bridge” after he single handedly fought three knife wielding jihadis with his bare hands during the London Bridge terror attack. The football fan was stabbed eight times while distracting the terrorist and buying time for people in the pub to evacuate. A petition online is asking to award him the George Cross, an award for bravery that is the second highest honor in the UK. ... [Read Full Story]
A Las Vegas police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man put in a chokehold. The chokehold was an unapproved method of subduing. ... [Read Full Story]
A year ago, a Maryland judge overturned Adnan Syed’s conviction and ordered a new trial but it is still in the appeal process. Adnan was introduced to the public in the podcast “Serial” which centered around the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and has since been the most downloaded podcast ever. Adnan was convicted of her murder and has been sentenced to life in prison.... [Read Full Story]
The trial of a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter is underway. Michelle Carter, 17 years old at the time, allegedly sent text messages in 2014 encouraging her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. One text allegedly said, “The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it!”... [Read Full Story]
See the most important parts of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 keynote. Over three hours of announcements, updates, and new products including the HomePod have been condensed into fifteen minutes. ... [Read Full Story]
Apple’s big developer lovefest, WWDC, kicks off Monday with a keynote that’ll set the stage for software updates, developer platforms and possibly some hardware reveals like a Siri Speaker to do battle with Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, delivering the news in a Rose Garden speech.... [Read Full Story]
The six-engine, dual-hulled Stratolaunch aircraft is designed to launch satellites into orbit has been launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.... [Read Full Story]
NASA plans to launch a probe to ‘touch the Sun’. Scientists will investigate how the corona reaches blistering temperatures, how the solar wind gets its speed and how space weather affects Earth.... [Read Full Story]
President Trump tweeted Wednesday night that he’ll announce his decision on the Paris climate change accord at 3 p.m. Thursday in the White House Rose Garden.... [Read Full Story]
The site of the infamous partial nuclear meltdown will close nearly 40 years later, the Pennsylvania plant announced it will shut down the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in September of 2019. ... [Read Full Story]
The United States successfully shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile target using its upgraded long-range interceptor missile in a missile test on Tuesday.... [Read Full Story]
The Navy said Monday the weekend death of a member of its skydiving team was because of “an equipment malfunction, though the specific nature and cause is currently unknown.”... [Read Full Story]
Woods, the 14-time major champion who had back surgery five weeks ago, was arrested on suspicion of DUI at about 3 a.m. Monday and taken to Palm Beach County jail. He was released on his own recognizance.... [Read Full Story]
General Motors is facing a lawsuit over alleged programming of some of its heavy-duty pickup trucks to cheat on diesel emission tests.... [Read Full Story]
Maddi Runkles, 18, has been banned from attending her graduation from Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland, because she is pregnant. ... [Read Full Story]
A massive landslide dropped a mountainside of dirt and rocks on the Pacific Coast Highway 1 in rural southern Monterey County, California this past weekend. The highway is buried under 40 feet of debris for 1/4 to 1/2 mile and will likely be closed for more than one year for repairs.... [Read Full Story]
