Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (MINNEAPOLIS) — Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen pinned down in a video by a white police officer and later died, escalated overnight, with the governor warning the situation was “extremely dangerous.” Police said that they responded to […]
Sgt. Simon Zamudio of the U.S. Army Reserve is seen in this undated photo. – (U.S. Army Reserve)By PIERRE THOMAS, SONY SALZMAN and DR. JOHN BROWNSTEIN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — One hundred thousand. But this is not about numbers. This is about us. This is about incalculable loss. About […]
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 355,000 people worldwide. Over 5.6 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Bertha moved through South Carolina Wednesday, bringing up to 5 inches of rain to the states with record rainfall reported in Charleston of more than 2 inches. What’s left of Bertha is now moving through the Ohio Valley and […]
RiverNorthPhotography/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (FRANKFORT, Ky.) — Democratic and Republican leaders denounced gun rights supporters for hanging an effigy of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree outside the state capitol building during a Memorial Day weekend demonstration. The symbolic lynching occurred on Sunday at a rally by gun […]
Chainarong Prasertthai/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Domestic violence has seen a dramatic increase during the novel coronavirus pandemic, with victims cooped up with their abusers under stay-at home orders and unable to access services they normally would utilize for support, according to officials. As resource centers face […]
Evghen_Prozhyrko/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON and WHITNEY LLOYD, ABC NEWS(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — The mayor of Minneapolis called on prosecutors Wednesday to file criminal charges against a white police officer seen in a viral video pressing his knee into the neck of an African American man who is repeatedly heard in the footage […]
Pennsylvania State PoliceBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The University of Connecticut student who’s alleged to have killed two people and injured a third was taken into custody in Maryland Wednesday night, police said. Connecticut State Police said Peter Manfredonia, 23, was taken into custody in Hagerstown, Maryland, […]
Pro soccer returns to America next month when the National Women’s Soccer League plays a 25-game tournament in a near-empty stadium in Utah. Players from the nine teams will train and live at two Salt Lake City-area hotels in an attempt to control the environment. All players will be tested […]
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 355,000 people worldwide and at least 100,411 people in the United States. Over 5.6 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the […]
