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New footage details more fatal arrests of black men who said 'I can't breathe'
kali9/iStockBy KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As Black Lives Matter supporters push for justice in the wake of George Floyd's death, more police footage is being released that details the death...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
Elderly Good Samaritan dies attempting to rescue child being swept away by river
ABC News/KFSN-TVBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News(FRESNO, Calif.) -- A Good Samaritan who risked his life to save a child who was being swept away down by a river has died.The incident occurred on Tuesday even...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
Drones deployed during marches were not to spy on protesters: Authorities
Eshma/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner told ABC News that CBP drones that were used to monitor protests from high in the sky were ...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
Intelligence bulletin warning of protest-related violence makes little mention of 'antifa'
Mihajlo Maricic/iStockBy JOSH MARGOLIN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- Despite repeated Trump administration assertions that the antifa movement has hijacked the ongoing protests around the country sparked ...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
Chicago sees 18 homicides in deadliest day in 60 years
Kathryn Kirsch/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(CHICAGO) -- Known as one of the most gun violent cities in America, Chicago recently marked a new grim milestone with 18 homicides in a single day, of...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
NASA astronauts reflect on first private space launch
NASABy MINA KAJI and NATHAN LUNA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It has been a little over a week since SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Do...
ABC Audio Jun 10, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery's mother to David Muir: George Floyd protests give 'me strength to go on'
ABC NewsBy ENJOLI FRANCIS, ESTHER CASTILLEJO, and ERIC NOLL, ABC NEWS(HOUSTON) -- As George Floyd's loved ones prepared to say their final farewells at his funeral service in Houston on Tuesday, thous...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Human remains found at Chad Daybell's home, husband of Lori Vallow, mom of missing Idaho kids
carlballou/iStockBY MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS(FREMONT COUNTY, Idaho) -- What are believed to be human remains have been found at the home of the current husband of Lori Vallow, whose children have bee...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Family, friends gather at George Floyd's funeral service in Houston
Bob Levey/Getty ImagesBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(HOUSTON) -- A three-state, five-day final journey for George Floyd ended Tuesday in Houston, the city he called home for most of his life.Thousands of m...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
NYPD officers hit with criminal charges, discipline over actions during George Floyd protests
Ben185/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, EMILY SHAPIRO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New York Police Department officer who allegedly shoved a protester to the ground, turned himself in Tuesday mor...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020