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Nursing homes seek $10B from feds as coronavirus cases continue to overwhelm elderly
Cecilie_Arcurs/iStockBy ALLISON PECORIN and MATTHEW MOSK, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As new statistics show nursing home outbreaks accounting for more than half of the novel coronavirus deaths in some stat...
ABC Audio May 07, 2020
Challenges to Ohio's stay-at-home order mount as lawmakers seek to limit health director's power
aceshot/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Since March 22, more than 11 million Ohioans have been under a stay-at-home order. In recent weeks, the executive order has been met with ...
ABC Audio May 07, 2020
Fighting for their college dreams, first-generation students face 'huge challenge'
DuJaun Kirk of East Orange, N.J. (ABC News)By DEVIN DWYER and JACQUELINE YOO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- While many class of 2020 graduates are crestfallen that the novel coronavirus has disrupted their co...
ABC Audio May 07, 2020
Chicago mom and youngest child of two city workers dies from COVID-19
Courtesy Nikki MooreBy MARIYA MOSELEY, ABC News(CHICAGO) -- A 22-year-old Chicago mother has lost her battle to COVID-19 after spending three weeks on a ventilator and struggling to breathe.Nyla Moore...
ABC Audio May 07, 2020
Coronavirus death toll tops 20,000 in New York state
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 268,000 people worldwide.Over 3.8 million people ac...
ABC Audio May 07, 2020
Death of researcher in apparent murder-suicide may have thwarted 'significant findings' about coronavirus
kali9/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC NEWS(PITTSBURGH) -- A medical researcher in Pittsburgh was "on the verge of making very significant findings" about the coronavirus before he was shot and killed Sat...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Donations flood in from Ireland to Navajo Nation in repayment of centuries-old bond
Kindred Spirits Monument/Google Maps Street ViewBy CHEYENNE HASLETT, ABC NEWS(NEW YORK) -- A relationship between Native Americans and Ireland that dates back nearly two centuries has been revived onc...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Cellphone video shows a Georgia jogger allegedly ambushed by 2 gunmen
carlballou/iStockBY: Christina Carrega, ABC News (ATLANTA) — Ahmaud Arbery's 26th birthday would have been May 8. Instead, his family will be mourning his death and seeking justice after a fathe...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Historic New York City subway shutdown for cleaning deemed 'successful'
gerenme/iStockBY: Bill Hutchinson and Aaron Katersky, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The first deliberate shutdown of the New York City subway system in 115 years was deemed "successful" by transit off...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Gov. Abbott calls for the release of woman who reopened salon despite state's COVID orders
Dallas County Sheriff's DepartmentBY: Ivan Pereira, ABC News (DALLAS) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for the release of a Dallas salon owner who was jailed for repeatedly defying his executive ...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020