Month: July 2022
ABC Health News
The future of COVID vaccines could be sprays, not shots
Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The future of COVID-19 vaccines might not be shots in the arm or leg. Instead, picture a nasal spray or a patch stuck onto the skin for a few [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Amid a national tampon shortage, here are some doctor-approved alternatives
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A tampon shortage in the U.S. this summer has put a spotlight on menstrual product alternatives. Over the past several weeks, major retail chains across the country [Read More…]
ABC Health News
US has one of the highest levels of monkeypox in the world: CDC
Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States has one of the highest levels of monkeypox in the world, new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed. The U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Brittney Griner testifies in Russian court as US works to secure her release
Pavel Pavlov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Brittney Griner testified on Wednesday in a Russian court more than five months after she was detained in the country, saying she did not mean to [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 7/26/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Toronto 10, St. Louis 3 NY Mets 6, NY Yankees 3 San Diego 6, Detroit 4 Milwaukee 7, Minnesota [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Brittney Griner shares message to wife as WNBA star’s drug trial in Russia resumes
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Brittney Griner returned to court in Russia on Tuesday for her drawn-out trial on drug charges, the American basketball star told ABC News she has a [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
All-female team breaks world record by rowing from California to Hawaii
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Four female rowers made history Tuesday morning when they arrived in Hawaii after rowing more than 2,400 nautical miles from California to Hawaii. Libby Costello, Sophia Denison-Johnston, Brooke Downes and [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 7/25/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Detroit 12, San Diego 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 3, Cleveland 1 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City 7, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden addresses public from Rose Garden after negative COVID tests, ending isolation
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning and will end “his strict isolation measures,” according to the physician to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Bronze statue of Amelia Earhart unveiled in the Capitol
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) – Nancy Pelosi was the guest speaker at the unveiling of a new statue at Statuary Hall of Amelia Earhart, the famous aviator born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, has recently cooperated with the Department of Justice investigation into the events of Jan. 6, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Blinken meets family of slain Al Jazeera journalist
Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the family of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Tuesday amid renewed demands for justice. Blinken had previously spoken [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden and Trump seem set for 2024 rematch — why do their bases say they want anyone else?
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI,JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been headed for another face-off since the day Trump lost to Biden in 2020 — but voters say they are upset [Read More…]
ABC National News
Two former cops convicted in George Floyd’s death sentenced to prison
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ST. PAUL, Minn.) — Two former police officers convicted on federal charges in the death of George Floyd were both sentenced Wednesday to prison terms. Former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng [Read More…]
ABC National News
Two arrested in alleged road rage shooting involving young child
Benjamin Greene and Nazly Ortiz are seen in a video retweeted by the Harris County Sheriff’s Dept. The two people charged in a wild road rage shooting that was caught on camera. – Harris County [Read More…]
ABC National News
Heat warnings issued for Pacific Northwest as temperatures break records
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Excessive heat warnings are in effect for parts of the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday as temperatures top 100 degrees. Portland, Oregon, hit 102 degrees, while in Redding, California, [Read More…]
ABC National News
America’s nun population in steep decline
Sister Kelly Williams pictured with her roommates, who are also becoming nuns, in Chicago, Illinois. – ABC News (NEW YORK) — Across the United States, young adults are becoming less religious. A 2018 and 2019 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Deaf Broadway returns to Lincoln Center with ‘Sweeney Todd’ in American Sign Language
Deaf Broadway (NEW YORK) — Deaf Broadway returns to Lincoln Center, following the 2021 production of Into the Woods, featuring an entirely deaf cast. This year they perform Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, the chilling story [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine strikes key bridge in Russia-held Kherson
Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Having survived a Russian invasion once, an Afghan refugee now fights for Ukrainian freedom
Jalal Noory (KYIV, Ukraine) — Jalal Noory, an Afghan refugee in Ukraine who serves in the Ukrainian armed forces, defended the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from being captured by Russian troops at the onset of [Read More…]