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Month: June 2020

Tropical Storm Cristobal makes landfall in southeast Louisiana

Tropical Storm Cristobal makes landfall in southeast Louisiana

ABC News By DANIEL MANZO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (ORLANDO, Fla.) — Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in Southeast Louisiana Sunday evening. The National Hurricane Center announced that the center of the storm made landfall at 6 p.m. ET along the coast of southeast Louisiana between the mouth of […]

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Utah posts largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases

Utah posts largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah logged its largest single-day increase in the number of COVID-19 cases Friday, with many of those coming in connection with an outbreak at a meatpacking plant in northern Utah. Health officials are investigating the “ongoing outbreak” at the unnamed facility and expect to see […]

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Footage shows cops shot at fleeing man over 20 times in Utah

Footage shows cops shot at fleeing man over 20 times in Utah

Body camera footage shows Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a man as he ran away. Twenty-two-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was shot and killed May 23 after police who were responding to a call of a gun threat chased him when he ran from a motel. […]

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Doctors demonstrate to honor George Floyd and decry racism

Doctors demonstrate to honor George Floyd and decry racism

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label  White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]

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Statues of Confederate figures, slave owners come down amid protests

Statues of Confederate figures, slave owners come down amid protests

iStock/traveler1116By: MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — After years of civil rights activists calling for the removal of Confederate monuments, they’re falling like dominoes amid nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. Politicians on Thursday announced Confederate monuments will be removed from Indianapolis and […]

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US Marine Corps issues details on ban of Confederate battle flags

US Marine Corps issues details on ban of Confederate battle flags

iStock/mariusz_prusaczykBy: ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Marine Corps has issued details on its ban of public depictions of the Confederate battle flag on Marine installations. The depictions that are banned include clothing, a flag, poster, bumper stickers and mugs. “The Confederate battle flag has all too […]

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NWSL consulted players with kids in developing tournament

NWSL consulted players with kids in developing tournament

When the National Women’s Soccer League was devising plans for a summer tournament later this month in Utah, it reached out to the players in the league who are moms. There are just a handful of mothers who play professionally in the NWSL. But when the league asks players to […]

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Tracking Tropical Storm Cristobal as it heads toward the US coast

Tracking Tropical Storm Cristobal as it heads toward the US coast

ABC News By: DANIEL MANZO, ABC News (ORLANDO, Fla.) — Tropical Storm Cristobal is about 140 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and is headed north towards the U.S. coastline at 12 mph. The maximum sustained winds with Cristobal are currently 50 mph. Tropical storm force winds […]

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George Floyd protest updates: UK protesters throw slave trader statue in river

George Floyd protest updates: UK protesters throw slave trader statue in river

iStock/ChiccoDodiFCBy: JON HAWORTH and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The death of George Floyd, a black man who died on Memorial Day after he was pinned down by a white Minnesota police officer, has sparked outrage and protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and around the world. […]

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George Floyd protest updates: Cop arrested after video shows him use stun gun on downed man

George Floyd protest updates: Cop arrested after video shows him use stun gun on downed man

iStock/ChiccoDodiFCBy: JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The death of George Floyd, a black man who died on Memorial Day after he was pinned down by a white Minnesota police officer, has sparked outrage and protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and across the world. Second-degree murder, third-degree […]

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