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As Miami becomes US coronavirus epicenter, nearly 100 cops test positive
Joaquin Barbara/iStockBY: KARMA ALLEN, ABC NEWS (MIAMI) — As Miami quickly takes its place as the epicenter of the nation's ongoing COVID-19 surge, the city announced 155 officers had been place...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
NASA and the ESA release stunning new images of the sun
iStock/blackdovfx(HOUSTON) -- BY: CATHERINE THORBECKENASA and the European Space Agency on Thursday released the closest pictures ever taken of the sun that were snapped just a mere 48 million miles a...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
How the racially-motivated cold case murder of young Black man was finally solved decades later
Spalding County Sheriff's Office(GRIFFIN, Georgia) -- BY: LAUREN EFFRON, MARC DORIAN, and ANTHONY RIVASTo Jesse Gates, that October night in 1983 seemed like any other in Griffin, Georgia.The former S...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
'This is literally life or death': Motivational speaker shares experience losing father to COVID-19
ABC News(BAKERSFIELD, Calif.) -- BY: MATT GUTMAN and MEREDITH DELISOMisty Diaz has undergone 28 surgeries due to spina bifida. During the hundreds of days she's spent in hospital beds, her father woul...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
Northeast braces for possible heat wave as temperatures rise throughout US
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There were more than 60 damaging storm reports from Colorado to Florida on Wednesday, with four reported tornadoes in Illinois.In Colorado, greater than g...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
Essential workers share how front-line donor group 'made an impact on my life'
photo_chaz/iStockBy ERIC NOLL and KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Americans have celebrated essential workers keeping the country going during the coronavirus pandemic and now a new platform is ...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
You can see 5 planets in the sky this month, NASA reveals
Will Tudor/iStockBy TOMMY BROOKSBANK, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- If you're looking to watch something out of this world while quarantined at home, turn off the TV and look up at the sky.Mercury, Venus, Mar...
ABC Audio Jul 16, 2020
Bodies of 2 construction workers trapped in destroyed Hard Rock expected to be removed 'soon'
LordRunar/iStockBY: ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (NEW ORLEANS) — Nine months after a Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans partially collapsed and killed three construction workers, the bodies of two...
ABC Audio Jul 15, 2020
Why this 11-year-old wrote a poem to address racism and police brutality
ABC NewsBY: KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — A young Black boy from Maryland went viral for his powerful, poetic prose, which captured the heavy atmosphere of racial injustice in the United...
ABC Audio Jul 15, 2020
Asheville city council approves reparations plan as Providence explores idea
Sean Pavone/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) -- Leaders in Asheville, North Carolina, have taken a historic step to repair centuries of racial prejudice by unanimously voting to provid...
ABC Audio Jul 15, 2020