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What to know about Paxlovid, the COVID-19 therapy that Biden is taking
Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When White House officials announced President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, they revealed he was prescribed Paxlovid. Here’s what to know about the COVID-19 [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
2022 ESPYS: Stephen Curry urges ‘global sports community’ to ‘stay energized’ for Brittney Griner
ABC via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The accolades continue for Stephen Curry. One month after winning the NBA Championship, the Golden State Warriors star hosted Wednesday’s ESPY Awards. Curry also took home two awards, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Bannon trial live updates: Defense rests its case after telling judge they were ‘stymied’
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select [Read More…]
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DHS inspector general opens criminal probe into deleted Secret Service texts
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has turned the inquiry into the Secret Service deleted text messages into a criminal investigation, three sources familiar with the situation confirmed [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
President Biden tests positive for COVID-19
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time Thursday morning, his office said. Biden, 79, has “very mild symptoms” and is taking Paxlovid, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House votes to guarantee contraception access in federal law
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Thursday passed a The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it — a move coming less [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane sentenced in George Floyd killing
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (ST. PAUL, Minn.) — Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in a federal court on Thursday morning for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Lane, 39, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Unrelenting heat wave spreads from South into Northeast: Latest forecast
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The unrelenting heat wave pounding the U.S. is still going strong, with 24 states and 103 million Americans on alert for dangerous temperatures Thursday. Triple-digit heat is still hitting the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Two men indicted for 53 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer
Mint Images/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) — Two men have been indicted in connection with the discovery of 53 people dead in an overheated tractor-trailer in one of the largest mass migrant casualty events in U.S. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mom opens up about turning her son in to police for mass shooting threat
ABC News (NEW YORK) — It may sound unthinkable, but one mom said reporting her son to the police felt necessary after she found signs her son was planning a killing spree and attack on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Local communities need violence intervention plans to help at-risk people, experts say
Grace Cary/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Highland Park, Illinois, experts say there is a lot that communities can do to improve how they [Read More…]
ABC World News
BBC issues apology to royal family for infamous Princess Diana interview
Pool Photograph/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (LONDON) — The BBC has formally apologized to members of the royal family for the bombshell 1995 interview between the late Princess Diana and then-BBC journalist Martin Bashir. A report [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Kurt and Wyatt Russell team up for ‘Godzilla’ series, and more
Father and son Kurt and Wyatt Russell have been tapped to star in Apple TV+ and Legendary Television’s Godzilla series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, part of Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise, is set in [Read More…]
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Dave Chappelle Minneapolis show canceled hours before performance
Stacy Revere/Getty Images Dave Chappelle‘s Minneapolis show was canceled Wednesday just hours before he was set to perform. Chappelle was set to take the stage at the city’s First Avenue venue in front of a sold-out [Read More…]
ABC Health News
DC to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Students over the age of 12 will be required to receive COVID-19 vaccines this fall in Washington, D.C., the district’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 7/20/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Chicago 78, Seattle 74 Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
ABC Politics News
What is witness tampering, and could Trump possibly be charged?
Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 is holding its second prime-time hearing on Thursday, which will focus on the Trump White House’s reaction to the insurrection as it [Read More…]
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Prime-time Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump’s riot response, with new testimony and evidence
Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold the eighth in its latest string of hearings on Thursday starting at 8 p.m. [Read More…]
ABC World News
World’s oldest giant panda in captivity dies at 35
Paul Souders/Getty Images, FILE (HONG KONG) — An An, the world’s oldest giant male panda in captivity and under human care, has died at the age of 35 in Hong Kong. According to officials at [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Expert predicts Kim Kardashian’s Marilyn Monroe Met Gala moment has “put the kibosh” on similar stunts
NDZ/Star Max/GC Images While there are conflicting reports as to whether Kim Kardashian‘s famous “assets” may have damaged the dress, one fashion expert says Kim wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress on the Met Gala red carpet [Read More…]