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More wildfires ignite in West, forcing evacuations from California to Colorado
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Nearly four dozen uncontained wildfires are burning in the West Thursday, with 20 of them burning in California alone.Winds gusted from 70 up to 104 mph i...
ABC Audio Oct 15, 2020
Grandmother declared blind after acid attack by stranger outside of her own home
Helen Jones/WPVI-TVBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (PHILADELPHIA) -- A 61-year-old grandmother and phlebotomist is now blind after she was randomly attacked by a stranger who splashed acid in her face as she...
ABC Audio Oct 15, 2020
Coronavirus live updates: Fauci calls 'herd immunity' declaration embraced by White House 'ridiculous'
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1 million people worldwide.Over 38.5 million people across the globe have been...
ABC Audio Oct 15, 2020
Suspect in fatal Portland shooting of Trump supporter had gun in pocket when killed by task force: Officials
kali9.iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(PORTLAND) -- The fugitive who allegedly gunned down a pro-Trump protester in Portland, Oregon, over the summer had his gun in his pocket when he was killed in ...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Man who recently ran for governor arrested for 1984 murder of 12-year-old girl
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(DENVER) -- An Idaho man who recently ran for governor has been arrested for the 1984 murder of a 12-year-old girl, prosecutors said.Steven Pankey is a...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Animal conservation groups to sue federal government over dwindling giraffe population
erenmotion/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Multiple animal conservation and protection groups plan to file a lawsuit against the federal government over what they say is a failure to co...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Bronze statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be unveiled in Brooklyn during Women's History Month
Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A bronze statue of hometown legend Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be unveiled in Brooklyn, New Yo...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Amy Cooper, woman in racially-charged Central Park birdwatcher 911 call, expected to plead guilty
Kuzma/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Amy Cooper, the woman charged with calling 911 and falsely accusing a Black man of threatening her in New York's Central Park, appeared in court vi...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Protester allegedly assaults officers inside Rochester police station
Ben185/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) -- Protesters entered the Rochester, New York, public safety building Tuesday and allegedly assaulted two police officers, the department sai...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020
Red flag warnings in West as record heat, gusty winds expected in California
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Offshore winds are drying air out and heating it up along the California coast as a record high temperature was broken at San Diego Brown Field Airport Tu...
ABC Audio Oct 14, 2020