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Man charged with hate crime after attack on Asian American woman caught on video
NYPDBy Morgan Winsor, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The alleged suspect who was caught on video repeatedly kicking a 65-year-old Asian American woman in New York City as witnesses seemingly stood by has been ...
ABC Audio Mar 31, 2021
New York legalizes recreational marijuana, expunges former pot convictions
Nastasic/iStockBy Ivan Pereira, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The New York state legislature formally voted to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults and expunge the records of people previou...
ABC Audio Mar 31, 2021
NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Jessica Meir talk about 2024 voyage to the moon
ABC NewsBy Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, Allie Yang and Andrea Amiel, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Just two years after they made history conducting the first all-woman spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ...
ABC Audio Mar 31, 2021
29 finches sealed inside hair rollers discovered in man's luggage as he arrives in US
U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionBy Jon Haworth, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A man has been sent back to Guyana after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered that he had tried to import 29 finc...
ABC Audio Mar 31, 2021
Asian American veteran bares scars in denouncing anti-Asian hate: 'Is this patriot enough?'
Lee WongBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(CINCINNATI, Ohio) -- An Asian American veteran lifted his shirt and bared his military scars, declaring, "Is this patriot enough?" in a powerful speech to denounc...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021
New York must offer vaccine to inmates 'immediately,' judge rules
Marilyn Nieves/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A judge has ruled New York must offer the COVID-19 vaccine to all inmates in state prisons and jails immediately, condemning their exclu...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021
'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star Jennifer Shah charged with running telemarketing fraud scheme
Chad Kirkland/BravoBy MARK OSBORNE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jennifer Shah has been arrested and charged with running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme, acc...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021
Wildfires force evacuations, shut down Mount Rushmore Memorial National Park
mphillips007/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(PENNINGTON COUNTY, S.D.) -- Three fires burning in the Midwest are threatening hundreds of homes and have forced the closure of Mount Rushmore Memorial Nat...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021
Key takeaways from Day 2 of the Derek Chauvin trial
Pool via ABC NewsBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- A Minneapolis firefighter broke down in tears on Tuesday at the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, testifying that she felt helpless and "desp...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021
Texas trooper 'no longer displays signs of valuable brain activity' after being shot
Texas DPS/TwitterBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(PLANO, Texas) -- A Texas state trooper and married father of children, who remains hospitalized after being shot while in the line of duty, "no longer displ...
ABC Audio Mar 30, 2021