Month: May 2022
ABC Business News
Reebok launches new adaptive footwear line with Zappos
Courtesy of Reebok (NEW YORK) — Everyone deserves a shoe that’s functional, fashionable and inclusive. Reebok’s latest release embodies all three. The athletic brand has partnered with online shoe retailer Zappos to release brand new [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Nation’s latest COVID-19 wave largely hidden from view, health experts say
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Current COVID-19 cases are just a fraction of what they were at the peak of the omicron wave. But many people in the country may be noticing what seems [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How to talk to kids after 19 children, two adults killed in Texas school shooting
ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 19 children and two adults are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. [Read More…]
ABC Health News
FDA warns against storing avocados in water as seen in viral social media hack
Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A recent viral TikTok food hack has been dubbed unsafe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Videos of halved avocados submerged in bowls or containers of water have bubbled [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Wife of Brittney Griner speaks on WNBA star’s detention in Russia
Todd Wawrychuk/ABC (NEW YORK) — Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who has been detained in a Russian prison for nearly 100 days, spoke on Tuesday in an interview with ABC News’ [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Sonny day: Gray’s 7 shutout innings send Twins past Tigers
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sonny Gray was fully aware of the solid start the Minnesota Twins needed from him, with injuries piling up on their pitching staff. He delivered a gem, showing just why the Twins [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 5/24/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Tampa Bay 4, Miami 0 Toronto 8, St. Louis 1 Arizona 8, Kansas City 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 2, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Three key takeaways from Tuesday’s primary elections
Grace Cary/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Historic early turnout meant knockout political races in Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas primary and runoff elections. With the backdrop of another massacre in which at least 19 schoolchildren and [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Baby formula execs face Congress as second shipment arrives from overseas
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A plane carrying some one million bottles’ worth of specialized infant formula from Europe was set to arrive at an airport in Virginia on Wednesday, the same day top industry executives [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Primary election updates: Brad Raffensperger wins primary as Trump’s picks fall in Georgia
Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — May ends with another round of notable primary elections on Tuesday, this time in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Texas. The most-watched races will be in Georgia, with primaries [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas school shooting live updates: Nation mourns ‘carnage’
ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — A small town in rural Texas is reeling after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school on Tuesday, killing 19 children. Two teachers were also among [Read More…]
ABC National News
At least 19 children, two adults dead after shooting at Texas elementary school
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — At least 19 children and two teachers are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Southern Baptist president says sexual abuse rumors were ‘always out there’
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, said the damning independent investigative report on sex abuse allegations is “long overdue.” “The rumors were always out there that these [Read More…]
ABC National News
Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos remembered three years after disappearance
New Canaan Police Department (NEW YORK) — Three years after Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos dropped her children off at school and vanished, her family members said they “feel immeasurable loss” as they await the prosecution [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Exxon Mobil must face environmental allegations, court rules
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday the state attorney general can pursue a civil lawsuit that accused Exxon Mobil of misleading investors about its products [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Coca-Cola unveils new bottles with attached caps in the UK
Coca Cola Great Britain (NEW YORK) — New Coke bottles have started appearing in the U.K. as the popular soda brand continues on its path toward more sustainable packaging. “As part of Coca-Cola’s journey towards [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Former NFL player charged with simple assault following fight with airline worker
Abbie Parr/Getty Images, FILE (NEWARK, N.J.) — A United Airlines employee was fired and a former NFL player was arrested following a physical altercation at Newark Liberty International Airport last week. Brendan Langley, former player [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Primary election updates: Marjorie Taylor Greene projected GOP winner in Georgia’s 14th district
Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — May ends with another round of notable primary elections on Tuesday, this time in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Texas. The most-watched races will be in Georgia, with primaries [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden addresses nation on ‘horrific’ Texas school shooting
Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the U.S. still reeling from the mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, not even two weeks ago, President Joe Biden addressed Americans in the terrible [Read More…]
ABC National News
After yet another mass shooting, lawmaker pleads to his colleagues: ‘What are we doing?’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Every single mass shooting in America is not just a tragedy, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy said, it is a political — a moral — failing by the country’s leaders who must [Read More…]