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Two dead as Zeta batters South, now a tropical storm
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, EMILY SHAPIRO, MELISSA GRIFFIN and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least two fatalities have been reported so far after fast-moving Hurricane Zeta, a Category 2 storm, m...
ABC Audio Oct 28, 2020
Ice storm to combine with Zeta Remnants bringing heavy rain and snow Northeast
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- More than 300,000 people are without power overnight as ice storms continue for Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas in what is the earliest ice storm ev...
ABC Audio Oct 28, 2020
Coronavirus updates: Space Force's second in command tests positive
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide.Over 44 million people a...
ABC Audio Oct 28, 2020
San Francisco passes CAREN Act to criminalize phony 911 calls based on race
LordRunar/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(SAN FRANCISCO) -- San Francisco leaders voted to crack down on so-called "Karens" who use 911 calls to discriminate against minorities.The San Francisco Board...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
7-year-old student, driver killed in school bus crash in Tennessee
carlballou/iStockBy MARK OSBORNE and MATT FOSTER, ABC News(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) -- At least two people have been killed in a school bus accident in Meigs County, Tennessee, according to officials.The T...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
Looting, protests underway in Philadelphia for second night after fatal police shooting
kali9/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON and JOSH HOYOS, ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- A knife-wielding Black man was in the throes of a mental health crisis, according to his family, when two Philadelphia police o...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
Almost half of South Dakota's prison population tests positive for COVID-19
pinkomelet/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(PIERRE, S.D.) -- Nearly half of South Dakota's 3,347-person prison population has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the most recent data released ...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
NXIVM founder Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison
Marilyn Nieves/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Keith Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison at a Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday for running NXIVM, a self-help organization pros...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
Virginia Military Institute leader resigns after state opens investigation into ongoing racism
wellesenterprises/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(LEXINGTON, Va.) -- The superintendent of Virginia Military Institute has resigned after state officials alleged there's "ongoing structural racism" a...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020
Thirty officers injured in protests after shooting of knife-wielding man by Philadelphia police
WPVI-TVBy MARC NATHANSON and JON HAWORTH, ABC News (PHILADELPHIA) -- At least 30 police officers have been injured and 33 people have been arrested as protests continued overnight in Philadelphia over...
ABC Audio Oct 27, 2020