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Supreme Court boosts religious schools seeking public aid
DNY59/iStockBy DEVIN DWYER, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a victory for advocates of school choice, striking down Montana's exclusion of religious schools from a ...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Local officials frustrated as governors change rhetoric and send mixed messages on coronavirus
CasPhotography/iStockBy BENJAMIN SIEGEL, SOO RIN KIM and KATHERINE FAULDERS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- On June 11, a month and a half into reopening efforts in Texas, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner issued...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Wildfire evacuations in the West, heat wave developing in the East
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The Charleston Fire in Douglas County, Colorado, forced hundreds of families to flee their homes Monday as the fire quickly grew to 500 acres. Nearly four...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Lawyer for man found hanging in CA says sheriff's dept. leaking 'false information'
amphotora/iStockBy MATT GUTMAN, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- In the days after 24-year-old Robert Fuller was found dead hanging from a tree in the Palmdale, California, town square, a rumor began to circu...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Woman, 72, gored multiple times by bison after getting too close taking pictures
RichLegg/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A 72-year-old woman was gored multiple times by a bison in Yellowstone National Park after trying to get a close up picture of the animal.The incid...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Blacks comprise nearly half of all NYC arrests despite reforms: NYPD data
tillsonburg/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As the novel coronavirus tightened its deadly grip on New York City in the spring, police went on a social distancing crackdown.Instead of t...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
Savannah requires face masks as coronavirus cases 'explode'
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 509,000 people worldwide.Over 10.4 million people across the ...
ABC Audio Jun 30, 2020
George Floyd's relatives watch as 4 officers charged in killing appear in court
iStock/niratBy: BILL HUTCHINSON and ALEX PEREZ, ABC News (MINNEAPOLIS) -- The four fired Minneapolis police officers criminally charged in the death of George Floyd appeared before a judge on Monday f...
ABC Audio Jun 29, 2020
1 dead, 2 hurt in shooting outside Amazon fulfillment center in Jacksonville: Police
File photo. 400tmax /iStockBy Joshua Hoyos and Meredith Deliso, ABC News(JACKSONVILLE) -- One person has been killed and another two injured in a shooting outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Jacks...
ABC Audio Jun 29, 2020
White St. Louis couple point guns on protesters marching by their mansion to mayor's home
urbazon / iStockBy Bill Hutchinson, ABC News St. Louis police confirmed on Monday that they are investigating a confrontation caught on cellphone video of some white neighbors of Mayor Lyda Krewson po...
ABC Audio Jun 29, 2020