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6th victim of Long Island murders identified through genetic genealogy
iStock/Jonathan Ross(NEW YORK) -- BY: AARON KATERSKY and ELLA TORRESA previously unidentified victim of the unsolved Gilgo Beach murders in Long Island was named Thursday, nearly two decades after her...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Meet Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the history-making NASA and SpaceX astronauts
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- SpaceX and NASA are set to launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, in the first crewed missi...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Eric Garner's mother reacts to George Floyd's death: 'It's a recurring nightmare'
Gwen Carr, whose son Eric Garner died during an arrest in 2014 in New York, speaks to ABC News about George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody on May 25, 2020. - (ABC News)By JESSI...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Protest live updates: Sen. Kamala Harris attends protest in front of White House
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, WILLIAM MANSELL, CHRISTINA CARREGA and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (MINNEAPOLIS) -- The death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen pinned down in a video by a whi...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
The toll of coronavirus: 100,000 and counting
Sgt. Simon Zamudio of the U.S. Army Reserve is seen in this undated photo. - (U.S. Army Reserve)By PIERRE THOMAS, SONY SALZMAN and DR. JOHN BROWNSTEIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- One hundred thousand. But ...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Severe weather moves east with flash flooding expected
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Bertha moved through South Carolina Wednesday, bringing up to 5 inches of rain to the states with record rainfall reported in Charleston of...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Coronavirus updates: Blood clots clogged lungs of African American COVID-19 victims, study says
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 358,000 people worldwide.Over 5.9 million people across the ...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Employee fired after hanging effigy of Kentucky governor at protest
RiverNorthPhotography/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Democratic and Republican leaders denounced gun rights supporters for hanging an effigy of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear from a...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
Domestic violence centers navigate coronavirus crisis as calls spike
Chainarong Prasertthai/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Domestic violence has seen a dramatic increase during the novel coronavirus pandemic, with victims cooped up with their abusers under...
ABC Audio May 28, 2020
UConn murder suspect arrested in Maryland after four-state manhunt
Pennsylvania State PoliceBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS(NEW YORK) -- The University of Connecticut student who's alleged to have killed two people and injured a third was taken into custody in Maryland Wed...
ABC Audio May 27, 2020