Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Two Louisville police officers have been fired from the department for their roles in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. The terminations of officer Myles Cosgrove and Det. Joshua Jaynes were made official on Tuesday in letters […]
Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Former Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields was named the new police chief of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday after nearly one year of the department in the national spotlight in the wake of the Breonna Taylor case. Shields […]
Ben185/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A New York man has been charged with hate crimes over a series of attacks on women. Since August, Brooklyn resident Khari Covington, 29, has been accused of attacking nine different women — seven of whom were on the subway, according to […]
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 86.1 million people worldwide and killed over 1.8 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins […]
InnaPoka/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (SAN DIEGO) — Lengthy waits for COVID-19 tests are a thing of the past at the University of California, San Diego now that the school is distributing test kits — for free — from on-campus vending machines. Schools officials attributed the success in mitigating the […]
U.S. ArmyBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 intends to plead guilty next week for his role in the strangulation death of Army Green Beret Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar. That would make Chief Special Warfare Operator Tony DeDolph the third of […]
STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty ImagesBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — In a eulogy for Andre Hill, the Black Ohio grandfather killed in a police-involved shooting two days before Christmas, national civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton demanded the now-fired officer who fatally shot Hill, face criminal charges and […]
stanley45/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has finalized plans to open a vast amount of protected land in Arctic Alaska to oil development. The Bureau of Land Management on Monday released its plan for the 23 million acres on the western North Slope of the Arctic […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving scored 20 of his 29 points in the first half to lead the undermanned Brooklyn Nets to a 130-96 win over the Utah Jazz. Brooklyn, which entered the game having lost two straight and four of five, never trailed. The Nets led 35-14 after […]
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 86.1 million people worldwide and killed over 1.8 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. […]
