Year: 2022
ABC Entertainment News
Louie Anderson hospitalized with blood cancer
Dan MacMedan/Getty Images Comedian and Baskets Emmy winner Louie Anderson is in a Las Vegas hospital undergoing treatment for blood cancer. Glenn Schwartz, a rep for the 68-year-old tells ABC Audio that Anderson was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, which [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Microsoft to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Microsoft Corp. announced plans on Tuesday to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard Inc., the maker of immensely popular franchises including “Call of Duty” and [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Small yield of Florida oranges could mean higher juice prices
Matt Stroshane/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s peak citrus season in the U.S., but Florida orange groves had a bitter yield of the beloved sweet and tart winter fruit. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Woman goes viral for showing off tattoos in company headshot
Jessica Leonard (CLEVELAND) — Over the last few decades, it has been considered taboo to reveal tattoos, piercings or even unconventional hair colors in a professional work setting, but one woman is challenging that idea [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Wealth of 10 richest men doubled in pandemic as 99% of incomes dropped: Oxfam
iStock The 10 richest men in the world doubled their fortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report published Monday by advocacy group Oxfam said, highlighting how the global health crisis has deepened the divide between [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
NBA Social Justice Coalition vows to fight for voting rights
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the fight for voting rights stalls in Congress, the NBA Social Justice Coalition continues its call for lawmakers to act urgently to protect the right to vote. [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/17/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Boston 104, New Orleans 92 Charlotte 97, New York 87 Washington 117, Philadelphia 98 Cleveland 114, Brooklyn 107 Memphis 119, [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Novak Djokovic could be barred from playing in French Open
iStock/Pornpak Khunatorn (PARIS) — Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic could be barred from competing in the French Open following the French Parliament’s adoption of a vaccine pass on Sunday. Professional athletes, regardless of nationality, will [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Giuliani, other Trump allies who pushed election fraud claims
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Tuesday subpoenaed former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, who pushed unfounded claims of widespread election [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate begins debate on voting rights ahead of filibuster showdown
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — For the first time this Congress, the Senate started debating voting rights legislation on Tuesday, a day after Democrats failed to meet their hopeful, symbolic, deadline to pass an election reform [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
You can now order your government-supplied free at-home COVID tests
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration launched COVIDTests.gov on Tuesday, the website Americans can use to request free at-home rapid COVID tests mailed to their doorsteps, one day ahead of [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court takes up dispute over Boston flagpole and Christian flag
Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A dispute over a Boston flagpole, the Christian flag and the First Amendment is testing the limits of free speech on government property. The U.S. Supreme [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democratic Senate candidate smokes marijuana in new ad highlighting disparity and reform
Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Progressive activist and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers Jr. smokes marijuana in a field in New Orleans while talking about marijuana reform in his first [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge blocks hospital from turning off ventilator of severely ill COVID-19 patient
Google Maps Street View (COON RAPIDS, Minn.) — A Minnesota man with COVID who had been fighting for his life for months was transferred to a new hospital days after a judge blocked another hospital [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Biden administration website to order free tests goes live
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 851,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
ABC National News
DHS, FBI warn faith-based communities they ‘will likely continue to be targets of violence’
Nes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Faith-based communities have been and will “likely” be the target of violence “by both domestic violent extremists and those inspired by foreign terrorists,” according to a note sent nationwide to law [Read More…]
ABC National News
3 Pennsylvania officers charged in shooting death of 8-year-old girl at high school football game
Delaware County District Attorney’s Office (SHARON HILL, Penn.) — Criminal charges have been filed against three Pennsylvania police officers in connection with the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl and the wounding of three others [Read More…]
ABC National News
Alleged hostage-taker at Texas synagogue was known to British authorities, sources say
Obtained by ABC News (COLLEYVILLE, Texas) — The man who allegedly held people hostage at a Texas synagogue on Saturday may not have appeared on any American watch lists but he was known to British [Read More…]
ABC World News
Huge asteroid safely passes close to Earth
NASA (NEW YORK) — A comet more than three times the size of the Empire State Building got up close to Earth’s orbit Tuesday afternoon but was far enough to avoid turning into a sci-fi [Read More…]
ABC World News
Tonga government releases 1st statement since volcanic blast, described huge mushroom plume
Handout/New Zealand Defense Force via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time since a massive undersea volcano erupted and caused widespread damage, the government of Tonga released its first statement on Tuesday morning, [Read More…]