Year: 2021
ABC Entertainment News
Sex and the City showrunner: Kim Cattrall was “never on the radar” for revival
HBO Max Ever since Sex and the City fans learned that Kim Cattrall‘s Samantha would not be a part of the HBO Max revival, And Just Like That…, they wondered how the series could go on without her. However, SATC showrunner Michael [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Microsoft shareholders vote to force company to better report sexual harassment data
HJBC/iStock (NEW YORK) — Microsoft Corp. shareholders voted on Tuesday to force the company to more transparently address sexual harassment claims via independent investigations and public reporting. The proposal, approved during the company’s annual shareholder [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Texas law restricting access to abortion pills goes into effect: What to know
ELISA WELLS/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to weigh whether to leave Texas’s unprecedented six-week abortion ban, SB8, in place, a new law that also restricts abortion [Read More…]
ABC Health News
What’s behind the ‘dire’ COVID-19 surge in Michigan?
Tempura/iStock (OKEMOS, Mich.) — Michigan is in the midst of its fourth COVID-19 wave — and there is no end in sight, hospital officials said. Cases and hospitalizations are rivaling levels seen in earlier parts [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How your ZIP code determines your lung health
Darren Riley, 29, is the CEO and Co-founder of JustAir, which uses small sensors to map air quality on a neighborhood level. – JP Keenen/ABC News (NEW YORK) — This is the fourth and final [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Strangers donate breast milk after mom of newborn dies of COVID-19
Courtesy Brittany Eppenauer (OAK GROVE, Mo.) — Megan Richards, a mom of six, had planned to provide breast milk for her youngest child, 5-month-old Myles, through his first birthday. Richards died last month due to [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Amid spread of omicron variant, CDC expected to require negative COVID-19 test 1 day before flying to US
ronstik/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is preparing to implement new travel guidelines that would require proof of a negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying into the U.S., including for vaccinated people, a [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Neuropsychologists call for elimination of race-norming in clinical tests following NFL concussion controversy
Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychologists (AACN), the professional organization that sets standards and practices for the field of neuropsychology, has called for “the elimination of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 12/1/21
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Atlanta 114, Indiana 111 Orlando 108, Denver 103 Washington 115, Minnesota 107 Cleveland 111, Miami 85 Boston 88, Philadelphia [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Competitive congressional races on decline due to new redistricting maps
SDI Productions/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Competitive races across the country are expected to disappear as states begin to submit their re-drawn maps for this decade’s round of redistricting. While only 18 states have finished their gerrymandering [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
President Biden to make at-home rapid tests free in new COVID plan
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — As cases rise in the colder months and amid concerns of a new COVID-19 variant arriving in the U.S., President Joe Biden announced a new plan [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Dozens of states may restrict abortion almost immediately should Supreme Court uphold Mississippi ban
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday began to hear historic arguments over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden declines comment on report Trump tested positive for COVID days before debate
Oleg Albinsky/iStock (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday declined to comment on the claim former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows makes in an upcoming book, according to the Guardian, that Trump [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan. 6 committee will move to hold former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark in contempt
Elisank79/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Wednesday will recommend the full House hold former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in contempt for refusing to cooperate with their [Read More…]
ABC National News
2 Utah police officers shot by rape, robbery suspect: Authorities
ABC 4 News (TAYLORSVILLE, Utah) — Two Utah police officers are recovering after they were shot by a rape and robbery suspect Wednesday night, police said. One officer, with the West Valley City department, was [Read More…]
ABC National News
Family of Casey Goodson react to former sheriff deputy’s murder charges
Family of Casey Goodson (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Former Ohio sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade was charged with murder on Thursday in the fatal shooting of a Black man who was shot and killed while entering his [Read More…]
ABC National News
Florida teen stabbed to death by ‘homeless drifter,’ police say
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (MIAMI) — Investigators arrested a homeless man in Miami, who, they said, was responsible for the homicide of a 14-year-old boy in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Police said they took [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: First omicron case in US identified in California
Lubo Ivanko/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.2 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 780,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns [Read More…]
ABC National News
New York scientists double down on efforts to track new omicron variant
Niphon Khiawprommas/iStock (ALBANY, N.Y.) — With mounting concerns over the potential threat of the newly discovered omicron variant, U.S. scientists are racing to try to determine whether there are any confirmed cases of the new [Read More…]
ABC World News
Hundreds of migrants living in squalor in warehouse in Belarus amid ongoing border crisis
ABC News (BRUZGI, Belarus) — Parsa Akram now lives with her mother, father and brother under a warehouse shelf. The space is about 2 meters wide. The 18-year-old and her mother sleep in a tent, [Read More…]