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Coronavirus live updates: CDC announces alternatives to 14-day quarantine
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 64 million people and killed over 1...
ABC Audio Dec 02, 2020
Captain charged with seaman's manslaughter in California boat fire that killed 34
Kuzma/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the captain who piloted a boat that caught fire off the coast of Santa Barbara, Cali...
ABC Audio Dec 02, 2020
Florida boater rescued 86 miles off coast: 'I thought, this is it'
Motor vessel Angeles via U.S. Coast GuardBY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC NEWS (MIAMI) — The man who was rescued 86 miles off the coast of Florida after his boat capsized didn't think he would make it back...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
Hiker recounts seeing mysterious monolith removed from Utah desert site
Courtesy @TheMeowtainGiraffe via InstagramBY: IVAN PEREIRA AND DRAGANA JOVANOVIC, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The truth behind the pair of mysterious monoliths is out there, and investigators on two c...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
New York City advises elderly to remain at home as COVID cases grow
Brianna Mancini/iStockBY: IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — New York City officials are advising senior citizens to avoid as much nonessential travel outside of their households as the number ...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears Bill Cosby's plea to overturn sex assault conviction
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty ImagesBY: AARON KATESKY, ABC NEWS (PHILADELPHIA) — Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appeared open to one part of Bill Cosby's plea to overturn his sex assaul...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
CDC advisers to vote on who should get COVID-19 vaccine first
simon2579/iStockBy STEPHANIE EBBS and ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC News(ATLANTA) -- A group of independent experts is set to vote Tuesday on who should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine once it's ...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
Suspect in string of unprovoked attacks in Massachusetts likely enjoys 'thrill of the assault,' police chief says
Waltham Police Department via FacebookBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(WALTHAM, Mass.) -- Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward to find the person, or persons, responsible for a string of violent attacks ...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
Mother shot at funeral for teen son killed by Florida sheriff's deputy
vmargineanu/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(COCOA, Fla.) -- Nursing a bullet wound to her left leg, Quasheda Pierce said she remembers saying her final tearful goodbyes to her 18-year-old son whose...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020
Iconic Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico collapses before plans to demolish
RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty ImagesBy CRISTINA CORUJO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Scientists, students and Puerto Ricans are among those mourning the collapse of the iconic radio telescope in Arecibo, Pu...
ABC Audio Dec 01, 2020