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Statues of Confederate figures, slave owners come down amid protests
Vivien Killilea/Getty ImagesBy MEREDITH DELISO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After years of civil rights activists calling for the removal of Confederate monuments, they're falling like domi...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
First American woman to walk in space makes history, reaching the Challenger Deep
NASA By HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Kathy Sullivan soared to new heights when she became the first American woman to walk in space in 1984. On Monday, she broke a new record -- by diving deep ...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Flooding, damaging winds, tornado threats from Plains to Ohio River valley
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As remains of Cristobal move north, it is expected to combine with a new storm system that is moving out of the Rockies and should produce damaging winds,...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
George Floyd's final funeral service, burial to take place in Houston
Courtesy Ben Crump LawBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(HOUSTON) -- A three-state, five-day final journey for George Floyd will end Tuesday morning in Houston, the city he called home for most of his life.Tho...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
No new COVID-19 cases tied to Missouri hair salon exposure: Health department
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- No new COVID-19 cases were found after two hairstylists potentially exposed 140 customers and six coworkers to the virus at a Great Clips ...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
More than 60% of the 400 sailors tested on carrier had COVID-19 antibodies
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kaylianna Genier/ReleasedBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- An antibody study of 400 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roo...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Park Service to remove White House fencing after George Floyd protests
Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO ROSA SANCHEZ and MARC NATHANSON, ABC News(NEW YORK) --  The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who di...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Why protesters want to defund the police after George Floyd's death
Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesBy BENJAMIN SIEGEL, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- In Washington, soon after city workers painted "Black Lives Matter" down 16th Street heading to the White House, activists added...
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Two men pose as cops, steal more than $150K in jewelry store heist
tillsonburg/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Two men who posed as New York Police Department officers and robbed a New York City jewelry store in a brazen daytime heist have been arrested....
ABC Audio Jun 09, 2020
Black youth have most complaints against NYC police, including 8-year-old arrested for playing with sticks
iStock/ChiccoDodiFCBy: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Amid a series of nationwide protests over police treatment of African Americans, a report released Monday shows that 64% of civilian comp...
ABC Audio Jun 08, 2020