Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesBy JON HAWORTH, ELLA TORRES and IVAN PEREIRA, 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 and […]
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 383,000 people worldwide. Over 6.39 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by […]
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesBy 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 and across the […]
Jennifer Kovalevich/iStockBy ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to formally designate antifa as a terrorist group have generated new questions about the nature of the movement and how, or even whether, officials could clearly define members of what has been described by experts as more […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — BY: JACK ARNHOLZ and IVAN PEREIRA Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have activated their National Guards, with nearly 80 localities implementing curfews in response to the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd. The historic orders follow a weekend that saw protests erupt […]
Twitter/@JaredGoyette(WASHINGTON) — BY: CATHERINE THORBECKE The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit on behalf of journalists that it says were attacked by law enforcement while covering the protests over the killing of George Floyd. The suit was filed on behalf of journalist Jared Goyette who was shot […]
iStock/Toa55(BOSTON) — BY: LAURA ROMERO After bearing the emotional weight of nearly 10 weeks of being physically separated from their most vulnerable loved ones amid a deadly pandemic, family members could soon be allowed cautious visits to elderly residents in some nursing homes in Massachusetts, the first state to loosen […]
ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) — BY: CHRISTINA CARREGA and WHITNEY LLOYD A week after George Floyd was seen on a bystander’s cellphone video gasping his last breaths with the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer pinned on his neck, three of the four former officers at the scene hadn’t been charged. […]
Utah is seeing a spike in new COVID-19 cases about a month after many businesses were allowed to reopen, leading state health officials to issue renewed pleas for people to maintain social distancing. Protests over the death of George Floyd have brought hundreds of people together in downtown Salt Lake […]
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah say a father killed his two children and himself at their home in a Salt Lake City suburb. The South Jordan Police Department responded to a medical call Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. at the home. Police Lt. Matt Pennington says officers […]
