Month: August 2021
ABC Politics News
Nearly a dozen new state laws shift power over elections to partisan entities
adamkaz/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Among the dozens of election reform laws changing rules regarding how voters cast ballots, several have also diminished secretaries of states’ authority over elections or shifted aspects of election administration to highly [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Gaetz associate providing feds intel, documents as probe into congressman continues: Sources
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz’s one-time wingman has been steadily providing information and [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What’s next for Gov. Cuomo? Investigations, charges, potential impeachment
Photo by Carlo Allegri-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent shockwaves across New York when he resigned on Tuesday. But the 63-year-old Democratic stalwart still faces potential legal challenges, investigations and a potential [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House: Trying to fight COVID-19, not FL Gov. Ron DeSantis
Bet_Noire/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden White House is continuing to push back against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. ABC News reported earlier this week that the state of Florida [Read More…]
ABC National News
Over 1 million without power in wake of severe storms in Midwest
MattGush/iStock (NEW YORK) — Over 1 million customers are without power in the Midwest Thursday morning after severe storms slammed the region. The storms included several reported tornadoes. Power was knocked out in Michigan, Wisconsin, [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Mississippi asks Biden administration to send military hospital ship
Lubo Ivanko/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads. More than 618,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and over 4.3 million people [Read More…]
ABC National News
Why school districts nationwide are facing bus driver shortages
DavidPrahl/iStock (NEW YORK) — At the start of the school year, it’s not uncommon for school districts to be short bus drivers. Before the pandemic, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia had been down [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Alarming’ increase in law enforcement officers killed this year
amphotora/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Pentagon Protection Force Agency Officer George Gonzalez was a beloved son, brother and friend. He was a Yankees fan and a “one of the good guys,” according to an obituary shared by [Read More…]
ABC National News
FDA poised to authorize 3rd vaccine dose for immune-compromised people: Sources
Bill Oxford/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration is planning to authorize a third shot for the immune-compromised on Thursday, two sources familiar with the plans confirmed to ABC News. If the FDA green-lights [Read More…]
ABC World News
US military analysis says Kabul could fall to Taliban in 90 days: Official
omersukrugoksu/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the Taliban sweeps across Afghanistan and claims at least nine provincial capitals in just days, a new U.S. military analysis warns that the country’s capital, Kabul, could become isolated in [Read More…]
ABC World News
Iran facing its deadliest coronavirus surge after banning import on US vaccines
da-kuk/iStock (NEW YORK) — Eight months after Iran banned imports of any vaccines developed in the United States or the United Kingdom, the country is in the grips of its deadliest coronavirus surge yet, prompting [Read More…]
ABC World News
California man arrested in connection with the deaths of his two young children, authorities say
Cesar Okada/iStock (TIJUANA, Mexico) — A California man has been charged with the murder of his two young children in Mexico, authorities said. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, of Santa Barbara, California, was charged Wednesday with [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel to require U.S. travelers to self-quarantine for seven days
chameleonseye/iStock (JERUSALEM) — Beginning Wednesday, all travelers from the United States arriving in Israel will be required to quarantine for seven days, regardless of their vaccination status. Israel’s Knesset Labour and Health Committee approved the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Biden sends envoy in urgent effort to stop Taliban offensive in Afghanistan
KeithBinns/iStock (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s envoy for Afghanistan will meet with the Taliban’s political leadership this week to urge them “to stop their military offensive and to negotiate a political settlement,” the State Department [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
NCAA hands Baylor probation, fine in sex assault scandal
The NCAA said Wednesday that its long investigation of the Baylor sexual assault scandal would result in nothing more than probation and other relatively minor sanctions because the egregious, “unacceptable” behavior at the heart [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Field of Dreams: Inspired by 1989 film, MLB makes Iowa debut
More than three decades after “Field of Dreams” seeped into the country’s cultural consciousness, with a one-year delay caused by the pandemic, one of the most famous cornfields in Hollywood history finally gets the opportunity to [Read More…]
Latest News
Widow of man killed by South Dakota AG wants records private
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The widow of a man struck and killed on a South Dakota highway by the state’s attorney general is attempting to block the release of her husband’s mental health records. A [Read More…]
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Minnesota man arrested on suspicion of South Dakota homicide
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old Minnesota man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a 2019 homicide in eastern South Dakota. Clay County, Minnesota, Sheriff Mark Empting says the Moorhead man is being [Read More…]
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South Dakota virus cases double, hospitalizations jump
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Coronavirus cases in South Dakota more than doubled in the last week, health authorities reported Wednesday, as hospitalizations also saw a large jump in people with COVID-19. The Department of [Read More…]
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Pacific Northwest braces for another multiday heat wave
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People in the Pacific Northwest braced for another major, multiday heat wave starting Wednesday, just over a month after record-shattering hot weather killed hundreds of the region’s most vulnerable people when [Read More…]
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