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Production on ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ begins, official cast revealed
Disney+ It’s a Halloween miracle: Production on Hocus Pocus 2 is officially underway. Disney announced Monday that the long-awaited sequel to the beloved 1993 movie has begun filming in Rhode Island, with stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy returning [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Why the John Deere strike is being viewed as harbinger of a new labor market
iStock/Wolterk (NEW YORK) — Members of the United Auto Workers Union are set to vote Tuesday on a tentative agreement that would end the ongoing strike of more than 10,000 John Deere workers. News of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
COVID-19 live updates: Biden tests negative after press secretary contracts virus
iStock/Prostock-Studio (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 746,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Justices take up Texas abortion law in fast-tracked hearing
iStock/leekris (NEW YORK) — Exactly two months after allowing Texas to impose a near-total ban on abortions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday was taking a closer look at the groundbreaking state law deliberately designed [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden reflects on American leadership, progress made at G-20 summit
Antonio Masiello/Getty Images (ROME) — President Joe Biden reflected on progress he made with other world leaders at this weekend’s G-20 summit, including ways to combat climate change, as the event wrapped up in Rome on [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Kids’ shots not widely available until Nov. 8
iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 746,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
ABC National News
Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Ahmaud Arbery case both expected to hinge on video
ABC obtained video (NEW YORK) — Two trials over killings that have garnered national attention are now going on simultaneously and legal experts said they expect both will hinge on video evidence. Jury selection in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Dia de Los Muertos offers healing for COVID-19 victims’ Latinx families
iStock/Cavan Images (NEW YORK) — This year, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, many Mexican Americans will find solace in celebrating Día de los Muertos. The holiday, which is celebrated from Oct. 31 through Nov. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Robert Durst indicted on murder of first wife, Kathleen
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — A grand jury indicted Robert Durst on a second-degree murder charge Monday in connection with the 1982 death of his first wife, Kathleen Durst. Westchester County prosecutors charged the real estate [Read More…]
ABC National News
SpaceX prepares to send another NASA crew to International Space Station
iStock (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to send a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station for the fourth time. The mission, dubbed Crew-3, will carry NASA astronauts Raja Chari, [Read More…]
ABC World News
COP26 live updates: Biden emphasizes urgency to fight climate change: ‘The science is clear’
iStock/Kinwun (GLASGOW, U.K.) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]
ABC World News
COP26 live updates: World leaders converge upon Glasgow for historic climate summit
iStock/studio023 (NEW YORK) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]
ABC World News
S. Madagascar on the verge of climate change-induced famine: How to help
ABC News (AMBOVOMBE, Madagascar) — “Kere” is a word that echoes around southern Madagascar. It means hunger, and the people here know it all too well. For the past four years, the lack of food [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ginger Zee helps explain climate change
iStock/chonticha wat (NEW YORK) — As the first piece of ABC News Radio’s series on the global climate crisis, Ginger Zee helps us understand the global impact of climate change. The signs and symptoms of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard Roundup 10/31/21
iStock/Motortion (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from yesterday’s games: —— MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS Final Atlanta 3 Houston 2 —— NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Final 2OT Washington [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 10/30
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS Atlanta 2 Houston 0 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Toronto 110 Orlando 109 Miami 114 Charlotte 99 Brooklyn 105 Indiana 98 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Buttigieg defends bipartisan infrastructure bill, ‘optimistic’ it will pass
levkr/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is “optimistic” that the bipartisan infrastructure bill will pass the House and Senate, he said Sunday. “We’re very optimistic the president put forward this framework because he believes [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Kinzinger speaks out on leaving Congress, ‘cancer’ in the Republican Party
uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Sunday he, Rep. Liz Cheney and “a few others” are the only House Republicans “telling the truth.” “You can fight to try to tell the truth, you [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What you need to know about the COP26 climate summit
iStock/slowmotiongli (NEW YORK) — For the next two weeks, governments around the world will convene for a highly anticipated summit on climate change that has been billed as the “last best chance” to meet the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people: POLL
iStock/lamontak590623 (NEW YORK) — Negotiations on the infrastructure and social program bills have consumed Capitol Hill for months. Still, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday finds Democrats are failing to sell the legislation to [Read More…]