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John Moore/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 803,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — After a series of strong and devastating tornadoes struck the Midwest and South this week, killing at least 89 people, a winter storm is threatening parts of the Northeast and [Read More…]

Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With COVID-19 “raging” in New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy said this latest surge could bring about the return of some restrictions. New Jersey reported back-to-back days [Read More…]

ED JONES/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York State reported 21,027 positive COVID test results on Thursday, a new single-day record, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday. This brings the positivity rate in New York [Read More…]

Getty Images (FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Police in Fort Myers, Florida, issued a missing child alert for 12-year-old Edilsy Roca from Lee County. According to police, Edilsy was last seen in Fort Myers at approximately [Read More…]

Andrew Merry/ Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With a rise in COVID-19 cases across the nation alongside spread of the new omicron variant, several major events this week have been rescheduled or canceled. New York [Read More…]

Tadas Kazakevicius Copyrigted/ Getty Images (HARRISONBURG, Va.) — Police in Virginia said they believe an alleged serial killer whom they’ve dubbed the “shopping cart killer” may be responsible for the deaths of four people — [Read More…]

Yuri Arcurs/Getty Images (DALLAS) — Mercedes Clement was last seen in surveillance video on Oct. 11, 2020, walking across the parking lot of the Koko Apartments in Dallas, Texas, with a man. She hasn’t been [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education on Thursday urged districts to combat pandemic-fueled teacher shortages by offering them more money from the pot of federal COVID-relief aid, in a letter sent to [Read More…]

John Moore/Getty Images As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 802,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s [Read More…]

GUNNAR WORD/AFP via Getty Images (BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) — Of the 244 people reported missing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after the deadly tornadoes, officials have now accounted for all except one. Nyssa Brown, 13, still [Read More…]

GUNNAR WORD/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A storm system that spawned possibly multiple tornadoes across America’s heartland on Wednesday night — rare for December — has left a trail of destruction and hundreds [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A storm system is impacting the Midwest and 29 states are on alert for damaging winds, heavy snow and avalanches. A tornado threat was issued for Iowa, Minnesota and [Read More…]

PinkOmelet/iStock (NEW YORK) — As Americans gather to toast the end of another particularly difficult year, many loved ones will be notably missing from holiday celebrations, a glaring reminder of the tragic realities of the [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/iStock (LAS VEGAS) — O. J. Simpson was granted an early discharge from his parole by Nevada state officials. Simpson, 74, has been on parole since October 2017 following a nine-year prison stint on [Read More…]

Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Muhammad Aziz, one of two men exonerated last month in the killing of Malcom X, filed a civil claim Tuesday against New York state, seeking $20 million [Read More…]

CasPhotography/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 798,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]

TSA (WASHINGTON) — The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 has confiscated the most guns ever in a single year — some 5,700, most of which were loaded. The report comes at a time when the [Read More…]

CHRISsadowski/iStock (NEW YORK) — At least 78 people across five U.S. states have been confirmed dead after a swarm of tornadoes tore through communities in the South and the Midwest over the weekend. There were [Read More…]

iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 797,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]