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Month: January 2021

Two Louisville police officers fired for roles in Breonna Taylor shooting

Two Louisville police officers fired for roles in Breonna Taylor shooting

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 […]

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Former Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields named Louisville’s top cop

Former Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields named Louisville’s top cop

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 […]

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New York man charged with hate crimes in series of attacks against women on subway

New York man charged with hate crimes in series of attacks against women on subway

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 […]

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Coronavirus live updates: US sees record death total

Coronavirus live updates: US sees record death total

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 […]

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UC San Diego introduces vending machines for COVID-19 tests

UC San Diego introduces vending machines for COVID-19 tests

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 […]

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Former SEAL Team 6 member to plead guilty in Green Beret’s death

Former SEAL Team 6 member to plead guilty in Green Beret’s death

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 […]

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Rev. Al Sharpton demands justice at Andre Hill funeral: ‘No more excuses’

Rev. Al Sharpton demands justice at Andre Hill funeral: ‘No more excuses’

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 […]

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Trump administration opens up more protected Arctic land for oil development

Trump administration opens up more protected Arctic land for oil development

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 […]

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Kyrie Irving leads undermanned Nets to 130-96 rout of Jazz

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 […]

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Coronavirus updates: Advisory group has new recommendations for Pfizer vaccine

Coronavirus updates: Advisory group has new recommendations for Pfizer vaccine

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. […]

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