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NYC mayor condemns funeral for rabbi, receives backlash for his comments on 'Jewish community'
FILE photo - Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vehemently condemned a large funeral for a Orthodox rabbi Tuesday night amid the novel c...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
'Project Cupid': New York City is making marriage licenses available online for the 1st time
LPETTET/iStockBy JACQUELINE LAUREAN YATES and AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- For the first time, New York City is making marriage licenses available online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
Severe weather, flooding rain moves east and historic Southwest heat wave continues
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In the last 24 hours, there were more than 240 damaging storm reports from Texas to Illinois. These storms also produced a tornado north of New Orleans an...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
Officials in Detroit suburb rebuke city commissioner who attended stay-at-home protest
Davel5957/iStockBy JAMES HILL, ABC News(DETROIT) -- City commissioners in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak voted on Tuesday to censure one of their own members after she participated in a rally earlier...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
Army sentinels stand watch at Tomb of Unknowns during pandemic
Devin Dwyer/ABC NewsBy DEVIN DWYER, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Crowds of tourists have deserted Arlington National Cemetery during the pandemic, but sentinels are still standing watch 24/7 at the Tomb of...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
US coronavirus death toll surpasses 60,000; 100 bodies found in trucks outside NYC funeral home
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 227,000 people worldwide.More than 3.1 million people across the gl...
ABC Audio Apr 29, 2020
'Not a scintilla of evidence' Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland should be released from prison: Prosecutors
iStock/Jonathan Ross(NEW YORK) -- BY: LUKE BARRBilly McFarland, the convicted Fyre Festival music festival fraudster, petitioned a court earlier this month for compassionate release amid the COVID-19 ...
ABC Audio Apr 28, 2020
Blue Angels and Thunderbirds fly over NYC to honor front-line workers
Emilie Richardson/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- BY: ABC NewsThe U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, aka the Thunderbirds, and the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, commonly known as the Blue Ang...
ABC Audio Apr 28, 2020
Will beaches and summer camps open? Here's what summer may look like this year
Solovyova/iStockBy ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- For Sandra Soellner’s 11-year-old daughter, Avery, summer camp is something that she’s been looking forward to.But with coro...
ABC Audio Apr 28, 2020
Severe weather outbreak expected South to the Midwest
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A new storm is moving into the Plains Tuesday and will bring a severe weather outbreak from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest. The biggest threat Tuesday will...
ABC Audio Apr 28, 2020