Tourist boat capsizes in Italy leaving at least 1 dead, several missing

PHILADELPHIA - Three more victims struck by gunfire as another weekend shooting erupted in a Philadelphia neighborhood early Sunday morning.Several shots were fired shortly after 1 a.m.

A labourer quenches his thirst on a hot summer day in Amritsar on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) (Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images) At least 96 people died in two of India's most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave.The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities warned residents over 60 and others suffering various maladies to stay indoors during the daytime.All the fatalities in Uttar Pradesh, totaling 54, were reported in Ballia district, some 300 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Lucknow, the state capital.

Juneteenth celebration shooting in Willowbrook, Ill. (WBBM) WILLOWBROOK, Ill. - At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot in suburban Chicago, authorities said.TV news video showed the strip mall lot filled with debris and police tape in Willowbrook, about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) southwest of Chicago."There were at least 20 individuals shot.

Scene of deadly shooting in St. Louis (KMOV) ST. LOUIS - An overnight shooting in a downtown St.

BEIJING - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday kicked off two days of high-stakes diplomatic talks in Beijing aimed at trying to cool exploding U.S.-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge.Blinken opened his program by meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang for an extended discussion to be followed by a working dinner.

disability benefits she receives due to her rheumatoid arthritis.I’m constantly behind (on bills), especially as things get more and more expensive,” Davidson said.“And it’s getting harder and harder just to do anything. Some weeks, I have to decide on eating healthy or skipping meals or tightening things down because it’s just getting harder.”Davidson’s situation is typical of Canadians receiving disability benefits across the country.

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - A group of baby ducks found themselves in a tight situation this weekend, but lucky for them some local heroes were nearby!Officers in Upper Makefield Township sprung into action Saturday morning when they found six ducklings trapped in a storm drain."Needless to say, you know we weren’t leaving until we got them all out," the department said in a Facebook post.And 90 minutes of "finagling" later, they did just that!Police say they had to remove five storm gates to rescue all the ducklings, and return them to mom.The whole brood took a quick dip in a neighbor's pool to celebrate, then went on their way!

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Peak morning hours saw a child and man become more victims of gun violence in Lower Merion Township this weekend.The double shooting happened near City Avenue and 47th Street in Bala Cynwyd around 8 a.m.A man and child were both shot, according to authorities.

Bohol province in the central Philippines with 65 passengers and 55 crewmembers, the coast guard said. It added that it deployed two vessels for rescue and to help put out the flames, which raged for more than five hours.READ MORE: Hundreds missing in migrant boat sinking; EU Commissioner says 'worst ever tragedy' in MediterraneanPhotos and video released by the coast guard show flames and black smoke billowing from two decks at one end of the ferry.

CALEXICO, Calif. - A tractor-trailer meant to be shipping Brussels sprouts was found to have millions of dollars worth of meth hiding inside of it, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.On June 2 around 7:30 p.m., authorities at the Calexico East Cargo Facility stopped a 51-year-old man driving a tractor-trailer "with a shipment manifested for brussels sprouts."The driver and his truck were referred for further examination."At the inspection area, a non-intrusive inspection was conducted of the tractor-trailer and its shipment, when irregularities were observed.

QUINCY, Wash. - A person has been taken into custody after the Grant County Sheriff's Office issued an ‘active shooter’ alert at a campground near the Gorge Amphitheater. Around 8:48 p,.m., the sheriff's office posted on Facebook: "Active shooter at Gorge Amphitheater. If at the Gorge, seek cover.

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Sunwing Airlines, integrating the low-cost carrier into its mainline business within two years as part of a plan to streamline operations.In an internal memo obtained by The Canadian Press, Sunwing Airlines president Len Corrado says the change will unlock growth opportunities for the 18-year-old company as well as its employees.The decision comes barely a week after WestJet opted to fold budget subsidiary Swoop’s operations under its flagship banner as well.Both moves magnify the major consolidation of the Canadian aviation market that followed WestJet’s acquisition of Sunwing’s main airline and vacation divisions last month.The memo gave no indication that Sunwing Vacations would also shut down, suggesting that WestJet planes could be flying Sunwing tour package customers to their destinations.Last week, WestJet announced it would fold Swoop into its main business by late October as the country’s second-biggest airline recalibrates amid a fiercely competitive market.

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Amanda Bynes is going through some hard times again.

coronavirus restrictions. It is said that the video was shot on December 14, 2020, when socializing was banned in parts of the United Kingdom.

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - Gunshots pierced the calm South Philadelphia evening as four people, including a 4-year-old child, were the victims of gun violence.The shooting happened Saturday night, just before 8 p.m., on the 1700 block of South Ringgold Street, in South Philly, officials said.Three adults and the child were all shot on the street. Philadelphia police and first responders were on the scene within minutes of the gunfire.MORE HEADLINES:The 4-year-old boy is in critical condition at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center after sustaining a gunshot wound to the chest.The adult victims are all stable and at Penn Presbyterian.Police say an active investigation is underway.

PHILADELPHIA - A rideshare driver on route taking a passenger through North Philadelphia was shot and severely injured on Wednesday night, authorities say. He later succumbed to his injuries and died.According to police, the incident happened just after 11 p.m.

President Biden on Saturday claimed that a Chinese spy balloon that drifted across the U.S. and caused a major international incident was "more embarrassing than it was intentional" by the communist regime. The president also said he hopes to talk to China's President Xi Jinping about how the U.S.

AMES, IA - FEBRUARY 27: Head coach Bob Huggins of the West Virginia Mountaineers reacts to a call by an official in the first half of play against the Iowa State Cyclones at Hilton Coliseum on February 27, 2023 in Ames, Iowa. (Photo by David Purdy/Ge West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, a month after the university suspended him for three games for using an anti-gay slur while also denigrating Catholics during a radio interview.Huggins, 69, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was pulled over by police in Pittsburgh on Friday night.

MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. - Two state troopers were shot, one of whom was killed, in central Pennsylvania on Saturday, authorities said.Officials with the Pennsylvania State Police said one trooper encountered an armed person sometime around 12:45 Saturday afternoon near Mifflintown in Juniata County.The trooper was shot and wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment. The trooper was said to have serious injuries.Authorities said the suspect was located at about 2:45 p.m.

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A video taken of a waterspout in Clearwater Beach on Friday afternoon shows beachgoers running as equipment goes flying in the air in just a matter of seconds. The beginning of the video — which was taken by BK Adventure, Florida Bioluminescence Tours — shows the waterspout moving quickly through the water. Some people appear to remain oblivious, while others are keeping a keen eye on what's about to unfold. As the waterspout approaches the shore, several people can be seen running from the water toward the beach line. Within 10 seconds, debris, beach umbrellas, and chairs can be seen flying in the air and tumbling across the sand. It is unknown if anyone was injured during the waterspout. MORE WILD VIDEOS: Waterpouts can fall into two categories — fair-weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts are tornados that form over water, and move from land to water. They have the same characteristics as a land tornado, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in the U.S., Americans are set to gather this weekend at events filled with music, food and fireworks. President Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 to make June 19 the nation’s 12th federal holiday. "Juneteenth" calls back to June 19, 1865 – the day the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. On that day, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved Black people in the state.

LEWISTOWN, Pa. - A state trooper was shot and wounded in central Pennsylvania on Saturday, authorities said.Trooper Jaccob Rhymestine said the trooper encountered an armed person sometime after 11 a.m. near the Lewistown barracks in Juniata County.Rhymestine said the trooper was shot and wounded.

an induced coma. On June 10, a family member confirmed that the Celebrity Big Brother star had spent five days in an induced coma after undergoing brain surgery. However, in a new update issued by the 45-year-old's family, it said that the TV personality is still unable to walk.

A new Partygate police probe could be launched as previously unseen footage has been released showing Tory staff partying and breaking lockdown rules in December 2020. A bombshell video reveals how officials mocked strict Covid regulations at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London.

GRAND CANYON. Ariz. - A man fell to his death this week while touring the Grand Canyon and walking across its viewing platform. The 33-year-old plummeted from the edge of the canyon's "Sky Walk" attraction — a walkway that extends out over the chasm and allows tourists to look down to its bottom.The unidentified man fell over 4,000 ft, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said."About 9am Monday (6/5) morning, the technical rope rescue team from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue responded to Grand Canyon West Skywalk for a 33-year-old male who went over the edge at the Sky Walk into the canyon," said the sheriff's office.GRAND CANYON, AZ - MARCH 20: Members of the media and the Hualapai tribe take a preview walk on the Skywalk, billed as the first-ever cantilever-shaped glass walkway extending 70 feet from the western Grand Canyon's rim more than 4,000 feet above the Officials launched a rescue effort, including helicopter support, but found the victim dead at the scene."Two short-haul technicians (rope specialists) responded with Kingman DPS Ranger helicopter to the scene and determined the man was deceased," the sheriff's office said.

Medical staffs carry a survivor on a stretcher outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, on June 15, 2023, after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea. Greece has declared three days of mourning, th The sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece may have been the deadliest of modern times.An undetermined amount of people numbering in the hundreds remained missing and were likely killed when the migrant vessel sank earlier this week. "We don’t have all information yet on what has happened but it seems like this is the worst ever tragedy we’ve seen in the Mediterranean," EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson told a press conference in Brussels on Friday.A survivor stands as other survivors of a shipwreck sit inside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, on June 15, 2023, after a boat carrying migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea.

VALLEY MILLS, Texas – A Texas boy has died after he was struck by lightning last month while walking home from school with his father.Grayson Boggs' death was the fifth lightning fatality of the year in the U.S. and the second in Texas.

Suspect Robert Wayne Grayson was arrested by the Tulsa County Sheriff's Department after allegedly beating a woman in a moving car. (Tusla County Sheriff's Office ) A good Samaritan in Oklahoma followed a suspect who was allegedly beating a woman in a traveling car while simultaneously providing 911 dispatchers a play-by-play of what he was witnessing, leading to the suspect’s arrest. "Thank you to the Good Samaritan who assisted us in apprehending Robert Wayne Grayson," the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office posted to Twitter of the incident. Deputies said the good Samaritan called 911 on Saturday after witnessing a car swerve on Highway 75 near the town of Owasso, a Tulsa suburb. "As he got closer to this vehicle to see what was going on, he could see the male driver physically attacking the female passenger.

(File photo) Bush plane delivers essential provisions needed for survival in the wilderness and most remote parts of the country, Alaska. (Photo By: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Bush pilot Jim Tweto, known for his starring role in the Discovery Channel’s "Flying Wild Alaska" series, was killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after takeoff, Alaska State Troopers said.Tweto’s family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the television series a decade ago.

WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - JUNE 16: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford on June 16, 2023 in West Hartford, Connecticut.

An injured person is treated at a local clinic after an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School. The death toll from an attack on a school in western Uganda by militants linked to the Islamic State group KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday.At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into Congo after the raid on Friday night, according to the Ugandan military.Authorities blamed the massacre at Lhubiriha Secondary School in the border town of Mpondwe on the Allied Democratic Forces, a shadowy extremist group with ties to the Islamic State, which has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo.RELATED: Searchers who found children missing for 40 days turned to ayahuasca for helpThe victims included the students, one guard and two members of the local community who were killed outside the school, Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze told The Associated Press.Mapoze said that some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory and others were shot or hacked with machetes.TOPSHOT - A boy is conforted at the scene of an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School.

BALTIMORE, Md. - A Baltimore area bus crashed into a building Saturday afternoon, injuring 17 people, according to reports.The bus reportedly crashed into a building at 500 W Franklin St. in central Baltimore.Emergency responders are reporting an initial 17 injured in need of care and requesting an additional five medics, according to Baltimore Metro News.The scene has been declared a Level 1 Mass Casualty Incident (MCI), and emergency responders are requesting additional resources, according to local reports.

Big Brother star Lauren Harries’ family have updated fans on her health, after she was put into an induced coma due to a mystery illness, after undergoing brain surgery. After falling ill with a mystery illness back in April, Lauren underwent brain surgery and was placed into an induced coma following a seizure. On June 10, her family updated her fans that she was now awake however she was “unable to walk”.

Medical staffs carry a survivor on a stretcher outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, on June 14, 2023, after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea. (Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Ima The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country's south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.

ATLANTIC COUNTY, N.J. - A shooting in Atlantic County has prompted a death investigation by local law enforcement.Police responded to the 200 block of St. Louis Avenue in Egg Harbor around 5 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA - Police are looking a man they say pulled a gun on another man just moments before picking up a to-go order in Roxborough last month.The alleged aggravated assault unfolded in the parking lot of Domino's Pizza on the 5700 block of Ridge Avenue.The suspect and victim were arguing when the suspect armed himself with a handgun and threatened to shoot the man, according to authorities.MORE HEADLINES:Surveillance video showed the suspect picking up his food order following the altercation, appearing to casually speak to an employee.He then fled in a gold, older model sedan.No injuries were reported, but it is unclear if any shots were fired.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - JUNE 14: Kyle Schwarber #12 of the Philadelphia Phillies follows through on a swing against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on June 14, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) OAKLAND, Calif. - Kyle Schwarber homered on the first pitch of the game, J.T. Realmuto and Alec Bohm also went deep and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Oakland Athletics 6-1 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory.Oakland lost its third in a row following a season-high, seven-game winning streak.