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Noah Minnie/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — NASA kicked off its first Earth Day celebration since the COVID-19 pandemic Friday at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. The weekendlong event allows attendees to navigate informational exhibits led by NASA [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Textbook publishers say they have been left in the dark about why their mathematics books were rejected by the Florida Department of Education, with the state claiming the textbooks sought [Read More…]

Nicolas Resille / EyeEm/Getty (PHOENIX) — There are at least 11 large wildfires currently raging in the Southwestern U.S. — largely in Arizona and New Mexico. The Tunnel Fire in Arizona has burned 21,087 acres [Read More…]

skaman306/iStock (NEW YORK) — Dozens of New York City Education Department employees are being placed on unpaid leave as of Monday for submitting fake coronavirus vaccine cards. “Fewer than 100″ employees submitted the fake vaccination [Read More…]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — The New York City mother of two whose body was found inside a duffel bag had asked her alleged killer to leave her house “multiple times” before she was stabbed to [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Nearly three weeks after the killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, his family, friends and activists are coming together to celebrate his life and call for justice in his [Read More…]

James O’Neil/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The megadrought that has plagued the West for several decades is not only expected to persist, but drought conditions will also likely intensify and expand east, according to the [Read More…]

Compassionate Eye Foundation/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Health officials in Philadelphia voted Thursday evening to drop the city’s indoor mask mandate, just days after the requirement officially went back into effect on Monday. “Due to decreasing [Read More…]

Dan Reynolds Photography/Getty Images (COVINGTON, Ga.) — A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia shortly after takeoff Thursday evening, killing all aboard, authorities said. The plane took off [Read More…]

kali9/Getty Images (DULUTH, Minn.) — A family of four, including two children, were fatally shot while sleeping in their Minnesota home in what police believe to be a murder-suicide incident, authorities said. The suspected gunman, [Read More…]

STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been charged by U.S. authorities with drug trafficking and weapons offenses that allegedly link him to tons of cocaine imported into [Read More…]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A wildfire inferno is setting up in multiple states as dangerous fire conditions threaten to spread the fires even further. At least 14 fires are currently burning through Arizona, [Read More…]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A New York City mother found stabbed to death inside a duffel bag was allegedly killed by a handyman she’d been having an off-and-on affair with for two years, the NYPD [Read More…]

Malka Abramoff, Mireya Villarreal, Seiji Yamashita and Leda Alvim, ABC News (DEMING, Wash.) — Hearing stories and learning about the Nooksack Indian Tribe has been a part of Santana Rabang’s life since she was a [Read More…]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A person is in custody in connection with the death of Orsolya Gaal, the New York City mother found stabbed to death inside a duffel bag, police sources told ABC News. [Read More…]

Megan Varner/Getty Images (ALANTA) — Attorneys for Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the Atlanta spa shootings case, are seeking to dismiss the death penalty as he awaits trial on multiple murder charges for the [Read More…]

Jeff Swensen/Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — As the investigation to identify suspects entered its fourth day in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh Airbnb house that left two teenagers dead, police amended the number of gunshot [Read More…]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — The man accused of pushing a New York City woman to her death in front of an oncoming subway train in January was deemed unfit to stand trial at a court [Read More…]

amphotora/Getty Images (BETHANY, Conn.) — A Connecticut State Police trooper was arrested on a felony manslaughter charge after a report by the state inspector general alleged his use of deadly force was not justified in [Read More…]

iStock/nirat (CHICAGO) — Chicago’s top prosecutor announced Wednesday that her office completed its Cannabis Expungement Project with over 15,000 cannabis convictions removed from the record. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said that her office [Read More…]