Religious Leaders Bless Opening of New Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic, Call It “Sacred Work”

Blessing an abortion clinic may seem antithetical to religious beliefs about the sanctity of life. But various religious leaders came together to do just that on Tuesday at Planned Parenthood’s newest abortion facility in Washington, D.C.

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Supervised injection site for addicts

Addicts regularly use drugs on the streets of San Francisco, and some people there say giving addicts a safe, clean place to shoot up – and clean needles – could help curb overdose deaths and diseases. But critics object to enabling addicts to shoot illegal drugs in a supervised injection facility in San Francisco – or anywhere in the U.S.

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The World burns while Obama Golfs

With the dual breaking news events surrounding potential terrorism and a foreign diplomat being shot to death, White House pool reports showed that President Barack Obama headed to a country club in Hawaii near his rental house, where he is vacationing.

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National Geographic promotes trans kids

As part of its January 2017 issue exploring our evolving understandings and definitions of gender, National Geographic is featuring nine-year-old transgender rights activist Avery Jackson on its cover—the first time a trans person has made the cover of the magazine.

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Partygoers feared dead after massive fire in club

Several party-goers are believed to have died in a massive fire that has destroyed a northern California warehouse during a party early Saturday morning. It is believed that more than 20 people who were attending the party in Oakland, advertised as a 'Rave Cave', are unaccounted for.

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Fires in North Carolina burn more than 66,000 acres

As of Wednesday, the North Carolina Forest Service says 8 fires in the state have burned over 66 thousand acres and more than 18 hundred personnel are involved in fire fighting operations.

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Spiritual healer tricked woman into sex to save her marriage and then took her money

A spiritual healer tricked a woman into having sex with him to solve her marriage problems — and then made her pay $7,500. Syed Shah conned the 28-year-old mom into believing he could “purify” her relationship.

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Massive explosion could create a toxic cloud across European continent

There has been a massive explosion at an Italian oil refinery, amid fears that thousands of tonnes of fuel could ignite. The blaze, at plant in the Italian town of Sannazzaro dei Burgondi, north of Milan is engulfed in flames following the blast earlier today. A huge cloud of black smoke that can been seen miles away has covered the area.

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South African pastor sprays insecticide on congregants 'to heal them'

Images of a South African Pastor spraying insecticide into the faces of his congregants are circulating on social media. Lethebo Rabalago, of the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA), in Limpopo, has openly posted photographs on his Facebook page of him spraying congregants with Doom Super Multi Insect Killer to cure various ailments.

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Plane carrying 81 crashes in Columbian, 6 survive

Rescuers have started the grim task of removing bodies from the site of an air crash in Colombia as it emerged the pilot circled in a desperate attempt to burn off fuel before attempting to land.

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Food crises: Venezuelans stoping trucks to steal crates of chickens

A shocking video lays bare the severe food crisis confronting Venezuela. Food shortages in the South American country has meant people have resorted to desperate attempts to source their next meal.

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Hate graffiti spray-painted on wall and in yards in Tampa

Deputies found graffiti in Hillsborough County at two different locations. One wall was hit along Gornto Lake Road in Brandon, with the phrase "kill white people" spray painted. Other tags read "black lives matter" and "BLM."

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12 police officers injured during riots in North Carolina

All lanes of Interstate 85 were reopened early Wednesday but still littered with some rocks and glass after a night of protests over an officer-involved shooting of an African-American man in the University City area. The officer was also African-American.

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US mistakenly grants citizenship to over 800 immigrants with security risks

The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.

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Venezuela: Over 15% of People Eat Garbage to Survive

A new study finds Venezuela on the brink of famine, with an alarming fifteen percent of citizens saying they can only feed themselves with “food waste discarded by commercial establishments,” while nearly half say they have had to take time off work to search for food.

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200 million gallons of radioactive water leaks into Florida's drinking water

A massive sinkhole at a Florida fertilizer plant has caused more than 200 million gallons of radioactive water to leak into a main source of the state's drinking water.

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Explosion rocks Manhattan 25 injured

An explosion has ripped through Manhattan leaving more than a dozen people injured on Saturday night. 

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Chicago hits 500 homicides for 2016

The nation’s third largest city reached the grim toll of 500 homicides for the year after tallying 13 fatal shootings over the Labor Day weekend, police said.

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ISIS-Inspired Knife Attack in Virginia

The FBI has launched a federal terrorism investigation into a weekend stabbing in Roanoke, Va., looking at whether the attacker may have been trying to behead his victim in an alleged ISIS-inspired assault, sources tell ABC News.

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Police shoots dead an unarmed deaf mute using sign language

A North Carolina state trooper shot dead a deaf and mute man who was apparently trying to communicate using sign language after he was pulled over for a speeding violation.

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