FooTToo/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas is set to move forward with the execution of an inmate Wednesday, its first since a five-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. Billy Wardlow, 45, was convicted of capital murder after he fatally shot an 82-year-old man, Carl Cole, in […]
solarseven/iStockBy OLIVIA RUBIN and LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to pummel states across the country, South Carolina is dealing with a brewing crisis of its own with daily case records akin to those in more notable hot spots across the south and west, […]
Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, JON HAWORTH and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 544,000 people worldwide. Over 11.8 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to […]
SteveChristensen/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News (CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif.) — A white California couple has been charged with a hate crime after they were seen on video defacing a Black Lives Matter mural, according to a statement from the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office. Two people, identified by the district […]
Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 544,000 people worldwide. Over 11.8 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 […]
Andrei Vasilev/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — During the first half of the year, 44 states and the District of Columbia introduced nearly 550 bills that protect reproductive health access, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. The National Institute for Reproductive Health’s annual “Gaining […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Flash flooding and severe weather moved through a large part of the country Tuesday, with up to 160 damaging storm reports from Montana to Pennsylvania. Winds gusted from 70 mph to almost 90 mph from the Dakotas to Montana, where tennis […]
Bloomington, Indiana, police are looking to question this man and this woman in a red car suspected of driving into protesters, injuring one, on July 6, 2020. (Blomington Police Department)By BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Protesters were injured in New York and Indiana by drivers who authorities say […]
Cristina Corujo/ABC NewsBy CRISTINA CORUJO, VICTORIA MOLL-RAMIREZ and DIANE MACEDO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Amid COVID-19 and drought, Puerto Rico has registered over 9,000 tremors in the last six months, according to a meteorologist’s summary. The island’s seismic sequence started late last year. Ever since Dec. 28, the U.S. […]
U.S. Supreme CourtBy DEVIN DWYER, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized overnight last month after suffering a head injury from a fall while walking near his home, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed. The incident was first reported by the Washington Post late Tuesday based on a […]
