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Coronavirus live updates: Over 200,000 now dead from COVID-19
mrtom-uk/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ELLA TORRES and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(NEW YORK) --  A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 200,000 people worldwide.More than 2.8 million...
ABC Audio Apr 25, 2020
Smithfield Foods employee sues over working conditions amid coronavirus crisis
Bill Oxford/iStockBy JAMES HILL and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (SIOUX FALLS, S.D.) -- Members of a rural workers' rights group and an anonymous employee at a Missouri Smithfield Foods processing plan...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
Family of man killed by police in Walmart angered by lack of notification, calls for investigation
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (SAN LEANDRO, Calif.) -- The grandmother of a bat-wielding man, who was shocked by two stun guns, and fatally shot by police officers inside a Walm...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
New York man accused of hoarding COVID-19 materials for price gouging
Marilyn Nieves/iStock By AARON KATERSKY AND JUSTIN DOOM, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- In what prosecutors are calling the first criminal case in the U.S. charged under the Defense Production Act, the owner ...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
As learning moves online, coronavirus highlights a growing digital divide
damircudic/iStockBy SOPHIE TATUM, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Meria Carstarphen wants to make sure her students stay connected, so the Atlanta Public Schools superintendent is taking a hands-on approach.Som...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
FBI task force focuses on human trafficking amid coronavirus
krblokhin/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Despite the pandemic, human trafficking persists. The coronavirus is now working its way into advertisements for women being sold for sex, acco...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
Maryland agency receives more than 100 disinfectant use calls
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, WILLIAM MANSELL and ELLA TORRES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 195,000 people worldwide.Over 2.7 million people acr...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
More tornadoes expected in South as first heat wave of season forecasted for Southwest
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 40 tornadoes were reported in the last two days across Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. There were at least 10...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
More students are now considering college gap year because of COVID-19
adamkaz/iStockBy ARIELLE MITROPOULOS and ANDY FIES, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- May 1, the deadline for high school seniors to decide what college they will attend, is normally a day that brings the future...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020
DOJ clarifies federal inmate release guidance after confusion plagues process
DanHenson1/iStockBy LUKE BARR and ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department issued a clarification on Thursday regarding its policy on releasing certain inmates into home confi...
ABC Audio Apr 24, 2020