Day: June 19, 2023

United Nations adopts landmark treaty to safeguard marine life

8:14 pm June 19, 2023

Members of the United Nations adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas on Monday, with the U.N.’s chief hailing the historic agreement as giving the ocean “a fighting chance.” Delegates from the 193 member nations burst into applause and then stood up in a sustained standing ovation when Singapore’s ambassador […]

Victims identified in rural North Carolina mobile home fire

8:09 pm June 19, 2023

Authorities have identified five people who died in a mobile home fire in a rural North Carolina town Sunday as a husband and wife, a family friend and his two young sons. The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as homeowners Michael Breymeyer, 74, and his wife, Tammy Breymeyer, 58; Daniel Garner, 39, and […]

Rhode Island district weighs policy some say would ‘out’ trans kids to parents: They ‘need to be involved’

8:07 pm June 19, 2023

A Rhode Island school district is weighing a policy that would reverse its existing practice of keeping a student’s preferred name, pronouns and/or restroom preference secret if the student doesn’t want their family to know. The new proposal would require teachers who suspect a middle or high school student is thinking about transitioning genders to […]

Bruce Willis’ first photo as grandpa with Rumer Willis’ baby girl: ‘Something I will treasure’

8:06 pm June 19, 2023

Rumer Willis is making every moment with her dad Bruce Willis count. On Sunday, she shared a sweet photo of Willis holding her daughter Louetta Isley, celebrating his first Father’s Day since his dementia diagnosis in February. “Seeing my father hold my daughter today was something I will treasure for the rest of my life,” […]

Inside ‘devil woman’ Kelly Cochran’s plot to kill lover, husband

7:13 pm June 19, 2023

Approximately nine years after a divorced father went missing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, investigators are detailing the steps they took to nab the suspect, known as the “devil woman of Michigan,” in his brutal murder. Christopher Regan’s 2014 disappearance took Iron River detectives down a rabbit hole that eventually led to the discovery of two […]