Month: October 2022

A makeshift memorial in the Astoria neighborhood where FDNY Lt. Alison Russo-Elling worked and was killed called to “Defund the Politicians,” as neighbors ripped her accused killer as “a little cuckoo.” A stack of signs left among the flowers and candles on 20th Avenue, where the 61-year-old paramedic was slain Thursday, read “Defund the Politicians
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Angry protesters attacked the French Embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital Saturday after supporters of the West African nation’s new coup leader accused France of harboring the ousted interim president, a charge French authorities vehemently denied. A group of soldiers appearing on state television late Friday had announced that Lt. Col. Paul
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A veteran teacher was arrested this week on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl at a Santa Ana elementary school, police said. The girl alleged that Joseph Frances Deluca, 47, touched her inappropriately in a classroom at Edison Elementary School, Santa Ana police said. School officers reported the incident on Thursday to police, who
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Artillery craters are seen in the field from an aerial view in the recently liberated area of Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Friday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption toggle caption Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Artillery craters are seen in the field from an aerial view in the recently liberated area of Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Friday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP KYIV,
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Pierre Suu/Getty Images Model Bella Hadid got dressed at Paris Fashion Week quite literally—she closed Parisian ready-to-wear brand Coperni’s show by having a white evening gown sprayed onto her. She walked on stage Friday night, covering her breasts with one hand and wearing nothing but a thong, while a team of technicians sprayed a self-hardening
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Russia withdrew its troops from the strategic city of Lyman in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, a day after President Vladimir Putin hailed the annexation of Donetsk. The retreat, announced by the Defense Ministry in Moscow, comes as Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion makes further gains and presents a big setback for Putin. Due
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This version of our live blog is stripped of anything that makes it difficult to load on your mobile device. Click here to see the latest Hurricane Ian maps, videos and photos. Hurricane Ian’s U.S. death toll rose to at least 31 people Saturday as rescue crews in Florida painstakingly searched for survivors and the Carolinas began
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A civilian convoy in eastern Ukraine was found Saturday after allegedly being attacked by Russian forces, resulting in the death of 24 people, including 13 children and one pregnant woman, Ukrainian officials said. According to the head of the Kharkiv military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, a convoy of at least six cars traveling west from the
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Ukrainian soldiers near Lyman, Ukraine, on September 22.  (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times/Redux) Ukrainian forces have entered Stavky, a village neighboring Lyman in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk, Serhii Cherevatyi, the military spokesperson for the eastern grouping of Ukrainian forces, told local media on Saturday. “The Russian group in the area of Lyman is surrounded. The
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