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Child dies from suspected case of brain-eating amoeba in Nebraska, the state’s first
Larry Mayer/Getty Images (OMAHA, Neb.) — A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died from a rare case of brain-eating amoeba, health officials said Wednesday. If confirmed, it will be the first known death [Read More…]
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Biden signs into law bill named for toddler who died after swallowing a battery
flubydust/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill designed to help keep young children safe by strengthening safety requirements for products with button batteries was signed into law Tuesday by President Joe Biden. The legislation, known as [Read More…]
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Baby girl born with one lung and given 20% chance of survival goes home
Courtesy Joshua Valliere (SAN DIEGO) — A California girl has beaten the odds to reunite with her twin and return home with her family after a six-month stay at a San Diego hospital. Charlotte and [Read More…]
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Monkeypox vaccine not ‘a silver bullet’, WHO says, as breakthrough cases emerge
AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As demand for monkeypox vaccines increases, the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to receive preliminary reports on the efficacy of the shots, which suggests there are breakthrough [Read More…]
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Scoreboard roundup — 8/17/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Boston 8, Pittsburgh 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 4, Kansas City 0 Toronto 6, Baltimore 1 Seattle 11, LA Angels [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Treasury Department rejects GOP claims on new IRS agents
Zach Gibson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service does not plan to use the nearly $80 billion it’s set to receive in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to hire 87,000 new agents in [Read More…]
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What to expect from Thursday’s hearing on unsealing the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A magistrate judge in Florida is set to hear in-person arguments Thursday on a request from a coalition of media outlets to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant [Read More…]
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Weeks before Mar-a-Lago search, ex-Trump DOD official vowed to publish classified documents from National Archives
John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In June of this year, seven weeks before the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified materials, former Defense Department [Read More…]
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Prosecutor sues Florida governor over suspension, says 1st Amendment rights violated
David Taludkar/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Florida state attorney who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis this month sued the governor on Wednesday, claiming his removal from office violated his First Amendment rights. The lawsuit, [Read More…]
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp files motion to delay testifying in Fulton County election probe
Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp filed a motion on Wednesday looking to delay a subpoena for his testimony in front of the special grand jury as part of the [Read More…]
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Allen Weisselberg, longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer, pleads guilty to tax evasion
Aitor Diago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Allen Weisselberg, who first met Donald Trump in the 1970s when he began working for Trump’s father, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in New York that accused him of [Read More…]
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Strangers rally to help Uvalde students, teachers return to school after mass shooting
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — When students in Uvalde, Texas, return to school in September, they will have brand new picnic tables where they can sit and gather. Many of their classrooms will be [Read More…]
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Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs
Kobus Louw/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS) — Ahead of the new school year, Minneapolis Public Schools has defended its agreement reached with the teacher’s union this spring to prioritize retaining educators of underrepresented backgrounds when determining layoffs. [Read More…]
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Memphis man accused of fatally beating his wife at Fiji resort says couple ‘never had any physical arguments’
@ Didier Marti/Getty Images (LAUTOKA, Fiji) — Bradley Robert Dawson, a Memphis man police say fatally beat his wife last month at an exclusive resort in Fiji, told ABC News the couple “never had any [Read More…]
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5th set of human remains found in receding Lake Mead
Alfredo Alonso Avila / EyeEm / Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Another set of human remains were found in Lake Mead near Las Vegas, the second time this month that remains have been found in [Read More…]
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Russia-Ukraine live updates: Firefighter describes destruction after Kharkiv strikes
ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP 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 the [Read More…]
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Forest fires destroyed nearly 23 million acres of land in 2021, and it’s expected to get worse, experts say
Lucas Ninno/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The planet continues to experience a massive loss in forest land as the world warms and allows severe wildfires to run rampant in regions spanning the globe. Overall, forest [Read More…]
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Worker at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant warns of potential catastrophe
Westend61/Getty Images (ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine) — As Russia and Ukraine trade accusations over attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, a worker there told ABC News he fears not only for the safety of his family [Read More…]
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Restaurant owners face challenges to balance rising costs, keep customers happy
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Award-winning restaurateur Michael Scelfo has run kitchens post-9/11 and through the 2008 economic downturn, but he said the COVID-19 pandemic and soaring inflation have brought on prolonged issues businesses [Read More…]
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World Health Organization renames two known clades of monkeypox virus
mseidelch/Getty Images (GENEVA) — The World Health Organization renamed the two known clades, or lineages, of the monkeypox virus Monday. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the lineages will be referred to going forward using Roman [Read More…]