The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Diego Chargers player Vincent Jackson. The sheriff's office said Jackson, 38, was found dead on Monday at a Homewood Suites in Brandon, Florida. Hotel staff said Jackson checked into the hotel on Jan. 11 and...
British regulators said Friday that Instagram will clamp down on "hidden advertising" by social media influencers. The Competition and Markets Authority said Instagram's owner Facebook has committed to tightening policies to restrict influencers who don't disclose they're being paid to promote businesses on its platform. It's part of an investigation into...
At least 20 people were arrested as pro-Trump demonstrators and counterprotesters gathered in the nation's capital on Saturday. The majority were arrested for minor incidents. However, late in the day, as the crowds thinned and the scene got more violent, police said one protester was stabbed multiple times. Seven guns...
Democrat Joe Biden has won the statewide vote in northeastern Maine, US media projected, with at least three of the four electoral votes up for grabs projected to go in the former vice-president’s column. The race was called by Fox News and The New York Times. Both have yet to...
Back in February, Jeffrey Bezos posted a picture of the Earth on Instagram. In the caption, the world’s richest man announced his new project to save the world: the Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative to support scientists, activists, nonprofits, and anyone else who seems to have a good idea...
Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing talk show host who gleefully stoked division in America, helped polarize our national politics and made a career trafficking in bigotry and cruelty, died Wednesday at the age of 70. The cause of death was lung cancer. His wife, Kathryn, confirmed the host’s death on...
A Mansfield hunting last weekend at a state park in Alaska was attacked and killed by a grizzly bear, according to reports. The Mansfield Police Department confirmed that Austin Pfeiffer, 22, died in the attack Sunday in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the Mansfield News-Journal reports. Pfeiffer was...
A 12-year-old girl whose story touched people around the world has died from traumatic brain injuries, 16 days after her bike accident. Molly Steinsapir, was critically injured on January 31 and had been undergoing treatment in LA. Her mother Kaye Steinsapir had been updating her condition with thousands of people...
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe – better known as the Yorkshire Ripper – has died at the age of 74. Mr Sutcliffe, who was serving a life term for murdering 13 women across England’s northwest and Yorkshire between 1975 and 1980, was moved from a maximum-security prison in County Durham to...
Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The experts will arrive on Thursday and meet with Chinese counterparts, the National Health Commission said in a one-sentence statement that...