Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 60.2 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 […]
iStock/narvikkBY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Health care workers across the country are pleading with the public to follow COVID-19 guidelines as the nation struggles to contain another wave of the virus. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached 260,000 on Wednesday, and almost every state in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Physicians in Utah are warning that Thanksgiving could become a major super spreader event for COVID-19 transmission if people don’t follow public health guidelines. An increased number of hospitalizations across the state has prompted doctors and public health officials to advise against attending Thanksgiving gatherings […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Andy Larsen is a sports writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, but with so many games scratched during the pandemic he has spent a lot of time digging into coronavirus data and its sobering implications. Then on Monday, while he was sorting his spare change, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The parents of a 13-year-old Utah boy with autism have filed a federal lawsuit against the Salt Lake City Police Department alleging an officer shot the teenager 11 times. The lawsuit filed in Utah District Court claims the boy was severely injured when police responded […]
Michael Dobuski/ABC NewsBy MICHAEL DOBUSKI, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Street performers are a common sight in New York City. Passersby can regularly catch a jazz performance on a Harlem street corner, a spoken word poet in the subway, or, as was the case on a warm Saturday afternoon last […]
PROVO, Utah-In news that broke late Tuesday evening, BYU men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope has been signed to an extension by the Cougars’ athletics department. This extension lasts through the 2026-2027 season. Because the athletics department is wading through budget concerns caused by covid-19, Pope has opted to defer […]
Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 59.8 million people and killed over 1.4 million worldwide. Here’s how the news is developing Wednesday. All times Eastern:Nov 25, 9:22 amWeekly unemployment filings surge […]
Massimo Giachetti/iStockBy ABC News (NEW YORK) — Food banks have seen a spike in demand since the pandemic struck. In communities across the country, millions of Americans — even those who are employed — are becoming more food insecure. A report issued last month by the nonprofit Feeding America found […]
John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesBy DEENA ZARU and TONYA SIMPSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, and other police-involved shootings of Black people, the movement to “defund the police” became a rallying cry at […]
