Americans are marking the Thanksgiving holiday amid an unrelenting pandemic that has upended traditions at dinner tables all around the country. Zoom and FaceTime calls are fixtures this year, and people who have lost family members to the virus are keeping an empty seat to honor their loved ones. Far […]
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 61 million people and killed over 1.4 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins […]
ABC NewsBy DANIEL MANZO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — After a relatively quiet Thanksgiving across much of the U.S., the weather pattern is about to turn quite turbulent in the coming days. A new storm system is going to develop this weekend and track across the Southern and Eastern U.S. […]
Courtesy Ben Crump LawBy ANTHONY RIVAS and ALLIE YANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Six months after George Floyd was killed in police custody, his brothers said they still feel compelled to fight for justice every day and that when they sit down for Thanksgiving dinner they’ll be remembering some […]
RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty ImagesBy CRISTINA CORUJO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — After the National Scientific Foundation (NSF) announced last Thursday the demolition and decommission of the iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, scientists, experts and many Puerto Ricans have taken to digital platforms to plead with the government […]
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 60.7 million people and killed over 1.4 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins […]
ABC NewsBy DANIEL MANZO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The holiday storm that has been tracking across the country brought some severe weather and heavy rain to parts of the Midwest and the south on Wednesday. There was one reported tornado in Mississippi that did some damage as well as […]
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 60.4 million people and killed over 1.4 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins […]
cosmonaut/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (DENVER) — The mayor of Denver apologized for traveling on Wednesday after having urged residents to stay home for Thanksgiving as COVID-19 cases surge. On Wednesday, Mayor Michael B. Hancock headed to Mississippi to join his wife and daughter there, he said. Earlier that day, […]
Ben Harding/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The head of one of the largest regional health systems in the Midwest announced his retirement this week, following a controversy over recent statements he made about COVID-19. Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health announced Tuesday it has parted ways with […]
