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COVID-19 live updates: US at ‘inflection point’ heading into winter months
CasPhotography/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 751,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
Live updates: Ahmaud Arbery murder case underway
DNY59/iStock (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — The murder trial of three white Georgia men charged in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man prosecutors allege was “hunted down” and shot to death while out [Read More…]
Four ways to combat climate change with a fork
Grandbrothers/iStock (NEW YORK) — As leaders from nearly every country in the world converge upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference — the climate crisis is at center stage, as well as [Read More…]
Search continues for missing 14-year-old in New Jersey
ABC News (EAST ORANGE, N.J.) — 14-year-old Jashyah Moore has been missing since Oct. 14. Her family is pleading with her community for answers that would help bring her daughter home. “I cannot imagine what she [Read More…]
Bond raised for mom of 8-year-old boy left dead in Houston apartment
Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HOUSTON) — A bond was raised Friday for the mother of an 8-year-old boy whose remains were left in his Houston home, along with three malnourished siblings. Gloria Williams, 35, was arrested [Read More…]
Text from McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of Jaslyn Adams and Adam Toledo for their deaths
Tony Baggett/iStock (CHICAGO) — Protests erupted at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago this week after a text exchange between the fast food giant’s chief executive and Mayor Lori Lightfoot seemed to blame the parents of two [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Don’t give kids pain reliever before vaccine, CDC says
AlxeyPnferov/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 750,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
FAA refers 37 of the ‘most egregious’ unruly passenger cases to FBI for criminal review
guvendemir/iStock (WASHINGTON) — With the rise in airline passengers has come a rise in violence and aggression in the nation’s airports and onboard flights. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been sounding the alarm on [Read More…]
Juror booted in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial over Jacob Blake joke
imaginima/iStock (KENOSHA, Wis.) — A juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin was booted from the case Thursday morning after he acknowledged that he told a tasteless joke to a deputy. The man, [Read More…]
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother ‘very’ discouraged by makeup of nearly all white jury
isayildiz/iStock (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery said it is “very, very discouraging” that the jury impaneled in the trial of the Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing her son is [Read More…]
Scientists investigate the steep costs of climate change and US wildfires
f00sion/iStock (LOS ANGELES) — Climate change is making wildfires in the western United States larger and more destructive, and the effects are felt across the country, according to a study by Steve Davis, a professor [Read More…]
Striking John Deere workers vote against tentative new contract
iStock/Wolterk (NEW YORK) — Members of the United Auto Workers Union voted Tuesday against a tentative agreement that would have ended the ongoing strike of more than 10,000 John Deere workers. The vote came up 55% [Read More…]
Democrat Eric Adams projected to win New York City mayoral race
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Democrat Eric Adams is projected by ABC News to win the New York City mayoral race. The win, while expected in a city with many more registered Democrats [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: CDC panel votes ‘yes’ on Pfizer vaccine for young kids
peterschreiber.media/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 747,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
New theory about mysterious LAX ‘jet pack man’ released by police
Los Angeles Police Department (LOS ANGELES) — Following nearly two years of reported sightings of a man flying at relatively high altitudes around aircrafts landing at Los Angeles International Airport, the police department released a [Read More…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]