Getty Images/ CBS Photo Archive(LOS ANGELES) -- Thirty years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation -- then the first new Trek series since the original Star Trek ended in 1969 -- debuted in first-run syndication. Set 100 years after the start of the original series, ST: TNG featured a new Enterprise and a new, more diverse crew, including an android, a Klingon, a female doctor, a half-alien ship's counselor, […]
WireImage/Earl Gibson III(LOS ANGELES) -- Former Playboy Playmates and other celebrities have sounded off on the death of Hugh Hefner. Jenny McCarthy tweeted a picture of herself in bunny attire on the magazine's cover, writing: "RIP #Hef Thank you for being a revolutionary and changing so many people's lives, especially mine. I hope I made you proud." Rob Lowe tweeted: "I had a number of great conversations and with Hugh […]
lightpix/iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- A second rock slide in just two days has occurred at Yosemite National Park, injuring one person.The rockfall happened one day after the first killed one park-goer and injured another Wednesday.A spokesperson for the park confirmed to ABC News that a significant rock slide released off of El Capitan, a summit above Yosemite Valley, on Thursday.No fatalities are known at this time, the spokesperson said.Wednesday's rockfall also […]
FBI(WASHINGTON) -- Special counsel Robert Mueller has now lost a second official that he brought in from the FBI to help investigate Russia’s alleged meddling in last year’s presidential election, ABC News has learned.The latest FBI veteran to leave, Lisa Page, was described by media accounts in June as a trial attorney with “deep experience [in] money laundering and organized crime cases.” She was part of what Wired magazine called […]
Ruskpp/iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- Air Force Academy officials are investigating racial slurs that were found written on the message boards of five African-American cadet candidates on an academy campus.Air Force Academy officials are investigating the incident which is believed to have occurred on the Air Force Preparatory campus sometime Monday, Lt. Col. Heritage, the academy's director of public affairs, confirmed to ABC News.News of the incident was first reported by […]
Photo by Jason Bean-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As O.J. Simpson prepares to be released following nine years in prison for a Las Vegas robbery, his attorney told ABC affiliate KTNV that when the imprisoned former NFL player was placed in a more secluded area after he was granted parole, he at first "was just bored to tears.""It was a little bit of a bummer for him for the first few […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Police say bullying is not necessarily being eliminated as a possible motive in the stabbing of two boys at a New York City school Wednesday.A 15-year-old boy was killed and a 16-year-old boy was injured when an 18-year-old fellow student allegedly stabbed them in the middle of class, police said. The attack happened at a Bronx building housing the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation and […]
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Accused National Security Administration leaker Reality Winner revealed she "screwed up royally" when she smuggled classified information -- hidden in her pantyhose -- out of an NSA facility in Georgia, according to documents of her FBI interview.Winner admitted numerous details in an FBI interview, the transcripts of which were made public Wednesday night in a court filing. The 25-year-old is facing charges of leaking government information to […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than half of Americans now see climate change as responsible for the severity of recent hurricanes – an about-face from 12 years ago, when most attributed it to happenstance.See PDF with full results here.The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds a near-universal shift in this direction, even among formerly skeptical groups, albeit with smaller gains among Republicans and Republican-leaning groups.In a Pew poll in early […]
