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Coronavirus updates: US tops 2.5 million confirmed cases
Cliff Hawkins/Getty ImagesBY: WILLIAM MANSELL AND ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 494,000 people worldwide.Over 9.8 million people acro...
ABC Audio Jun 27, 2020
Judge urges release of children from ICE detention centers
CHRISsadowski/iStockBY: QUINN OWEN, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- A federal judge ordered immigration authorities on Friday to release migrant children held at family detention centers.Dolly Gee, a specially...
ABC Audio Jun 27, 2020
Major East Coast cities forecast to see severe weather Saturday
ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- Severe storms continue to form along a cold front that is currently moving through the central U.S. From Utah to Ohio, there have been at least 130 sev...
ABC Audio Jun 27, 2020
Minneapolis City Council votes to replace the police department with a new organization
By JOSHUA HOYOS and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) -- The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to advance its plan to eliminate the police department and create a new...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Minneapolis City Council votes to replace the police department with a new organization
kali9/iStockBy JOSHUA HOYOS and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) -- The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to advance its plan to eliminate the police department and ...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Feds investigate purportedly faulty COVID-19 test components
Bill Oxford/iStockBy ALEXANDRA MYERS and KAITLYN FOLMER, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- In what could be another blow to government efforts to ramp up coronavirus testing, federal officials said they are now...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Philadelphia police apologize for behavior at protests, declare end to using tear gas
amphotora/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- Philadelphia's mayor and police commissioner apologized for using tear gas on protesters earlier this month and issued a moratorium on the pr...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Officer seen mocking George Floyd's death has been removed from corrections department
Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty ImagesBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(TRENTON, N.J.) -- New Jersey's Department of Corrections has removed an officer after a video purportedly showed him mocking the death of G...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Broadway star Robert Hartwell buys 1820 house built by slaves: 'I've never been prouder to be a Black man'
GJS/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A Black Broadway star is sharing his pride after purchasing a home built by slaves."I wish I could've told my ancestors when they were breaking thei...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020
Widespread severe summer storms expected this weekend from Colorado to Connecticut
ABC NewsBy DANIEL MANZO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The latest round of summer storms brought over 100 reports of severe weather on Thursday in three general clusters around the country. One cluster was th...
ABC Audio Jun 26, 2020