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Coronavirus updates: George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19, autopsy shows
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 386,000 people worldwide.Over 6.5 million people across the globe have been dia...
ABC Audio Jun 04, 2020
Peaceful protests for George Floyd prevail in NJ, despite history of racial tensions with police
Josie Desmarais/iStockBy ARIELLE MITROPOULOS and ALEXANDRA SVOKOS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- For the past week, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets -- in the U.S. and all over the wo...
ABC Audio Jun 04, 2020
Feds charge three 'boogaloo' adherents plotting violence at BLM protest
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStockBy JACK DATE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Three self-identified "boogaloo" adherents were arrested after plotting violence at a Black Lives Matter demonstration.Andrew Lynam is a memb...
ABC Audio Jun 04, 2020
What is antifa? Behind the group Trump wants to designate as a terrorist organization
Jennifer Kovalevich/iStockBy ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC NEWS(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump's repeated threats to formally designate antifa as a terrorist group have generated new questions about th...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
US protests map shows where curfews and National Guard are active
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- BY: JACK ARNHOLZ and IVAN PEREIRAThirty-one states and the District of Columbia have activated their National Guards, with nearly 80 localities implementing curfews in response t...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
ACLU files lawsuit alleging attacks on journalists covering George Floyd protests
Twitter/@JaredGoyette(WASHINGTON) -- BY: CATHERINE THORBECKEThe American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit on behalf of journalists that it says were attacked by law enforcement while...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
Massachusetts becomes 1st state to allow socially distanced visits to some nursing homes
iStock/Toa55(BOSTON) -- BY: LAURA ROMEROAfter bearing the emotional weight of nearly 10 weeks of being physically separated from their most vulnerable loved ones amid a deadly pandemic, family members...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
Charges against former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's death
ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- BY: CHRISTINA CARREGA and WHITNEY LLOYDA week after George Floyd was seen on a bystander's cellphone video gasping his last breaths with the knee of a former Minneapolis polic...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
'We don't want to see this anymore': Head of black police chiefs group calls for nationwide reforms
Durham, N.C., Police Chief Cerlelyn "CJ" Davis appears on "Good Morning America" on June 3, 2020. - (ABC News)By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The head of the National Organization of Bla...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020
13-year-old expected to plead guilty in connection to Tessa Majors' murder
DNY59/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A 13-year-old boy charged in connection to the stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead gu...
ABC Audio Jun 03, 2020