City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade amid nationwide demands spurred on by the Black Lives Matter movement to shift money away from law enforcement agencies.
YouTube download / AP video / What's a puggle? A spiky, beaky but cute zoo baby. It has beady little eyes and a beak. It's an Australian animal called an echidna (uh-KID-nah) and a baby, known as a puggle, was born recently at the San Diego Zoo. (June 30)
-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer - Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, FL
Milton Glaser, the groundbreaking graphic designer who adorned Bob Dylan’s silhouette with psychedelic hair and summed up the feelings for his native New York with “I (HEART) NY,” died Friday, his 91st birthday.
Facebook says it will flag all "newsworthy" posts from politicians, including President Donald Trump, that may incite violence, suppress voting or break its other content rules.
After peaceful protests celebrating Juneteenth, protesters on Friday night pulled down and burned the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in Washington D.C's Judiciary Square.
YouTube download / AP video / Jimmy Kimmel to host the Emmys; Famous feline of "A Street Cat Named Bob" dies ; Stassi Schroeder announces pregnancy. (June 17)
-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer - Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, FL
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday in a dramatic display of anger that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff's deputy was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a protest last month. Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo was charged with murder and attempted murder in the killing of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53.
Highlights of this day in history for June 17: The Watergate scandal begins to unfold; The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution; O.J. Simpson arrested in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman; Singer Kate Smith dies.
The Six-Day War ends in the Middle East; Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo after NATO's campaign of airstrikes; Alcoholics Anonymous founded; Actress and singer Judy Garland born; Singer Ray Charles dies.
