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Kentucky governor takes action as state fights becoming next COVID-19 hot spot
AndreyKrav/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vowed to halt a recent escalation of COVID-19 cases after reporting 17 more coronavirus-related deaths on Thursd...
ABC Audio Oct 02, 2020
Google pledges $1 billion over 3 years to pay news publishers for content
courtneyk/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Google has announced a $1 billion investment over three years to start paying news publishers for content and to support the launch of a n...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
Advocates push for police reform after summer of unrest
amphotora/iStockBy JP KEENAN and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- Delisha Searcy has been pleading for police reform for more than a year after her 19-year-old son, De'Von Bailey, wa...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
Gusty winds and record heat forecast for Northern and Southern California
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Gusty, dry winds are expected on Thursday and Friday for parts of northern California where the Glass and Dolan Fires are burning as winds could gust up t...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
Coronavirus live updates: NFL postpones first game again as more people test positive
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1 million people worldwide.Over 34 million people across t...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
South Dakota seeing surge in COVID-19 transmission as cases rise in Midwest
filadendron/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- South Dakota has one of the highest rates of COVID-19 spread in the country, several reports show, as the Midwest experiences a surge in cas...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
Questions mount as release of grand jury recordings in Breonna Taylor case delayed
Breonna Taylor FamilyBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a motion to delay the release of audio recordings related to the Breonna Taylor case on...
ABC Audio Oct 01, 2020
Suspect arrested in ambush shooting of two LA sheriff's deputies
kali9/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ALEX STONE and MATT GUTMAN, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A suspect has been arrested in the brazen ambush shooting that left two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department dep...
ABC Audio Sep 30, 2020
Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black communities
ABCBy ASHLEY SCHWARTZ-LAVARES and STEVE OSUNSAMI, ABC News(FREEDOM, Ga.) -- This report is part of "Turning Point," a groundbreaking series by ABC News examining the racial reckoning sweeping the Unit...
ABC Audio Sep 30, 2020
How climate change affects wildfires, like those in the West, and makes them worse
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom stood by a singed mountainside, blaming climate change for fueling the fires ove...
ABC Audio Sep 30, 2020