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Man arrested for trying to kidnap child from mother as they sat in hotel room
Hillsborugh County Sheriff's Office By JON HAWORTH, ABC News(TAMPA BAY, Fla.) -- A man has been arrested after reportedly walking into a hotel room and attempting to kidnap a child right from their mo...
ABC Audio Jul 27, 2020
Potential coronavirus vaccine to enter combined Phase 2/3 in global trials
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 650,000 people worldwide.Over 16.3 million people a...
ABC Audio Jul 27, 2020
Global COVID-19 cases top 16 million, was 15 million only four days ago
iStock/narvikkBy: JON HAWORTH and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 646,000 people worldwide.Over 16 million people across the globe have ...
ABC Audio Jul 26, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, last living star of 'Gone With the Wind,' dead at 104
iStock/PeopleImagesBy: LUCHINA FISHER, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Olivia de Havilland, the last living star from the epic film Gone with the Wind and the oldest living actor to have received an Academy Aw...
ABC Audio Jul 26, 2020
What to know about China, UAE and US missions to Mars this summer
iStock/ Bubbers13By: CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Like something out of a science fiction film, three nations on Earth are heading to Mars this month -- commencing a new, deep space rac...
ABC Audio Jul 26, 2020
3 cities kept schools open during the 1918 pandemic. Experts say 2020 is different.
iStock/Favor_of_GodBy: ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- When the influenza pandemic struck America in 1918, most cities responded with measures that included closing schools.Yet three cities -- New...
ABC Audio Jul 26, 2020
Hanna weakens to tropical storm as Hurricane Douglas makes its approach on Hawaii
ABC NewsBy: BRITTANY BORER and DAN PECK, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Hanna has weakened to a tropical storm as it continues to move inland though it is still bringing dangerous weather conditions to portio...
ABC Audio Jul 26, 2020
3 members of armed militia shot at Breonna Taylor protest
kali9/iStockBy MARK OSBORNE, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Three members of an armed militia were shot at a protest calling for justice for Breonna Taylor in Louisville on Saturday afternoon.The three ...
ABC Audio Jul 25, 2020
Hurricane Hanna makes landfall in Texas
Sergei Dubrovskii/iStockBY DAN PECK, ABC NEWS (HOUSTON) -- Hurricane Hanna has strengthened, with sustained winds of 90 mph, as it takes aims at Texas.The Category 1 hurricane was moving west at about...
ABC Audio Jul 25, 2020
Hanna officially becomes a Category 1 hurricane
ABC NewsBY: REED MCDONOUGH, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Hanna has formed in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph around the eye wall. Hanna is strengthening...
ABC Audio Jul 25, 2020