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Coronavirus updates: US reaches 100,000 deaths
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 352,000 people worldwide.Over 5.6 million people across the…
Boy Scout plays taps nightly outside NJ veterans home where scores have died
Melissa Saldana(PARAMUS, N.J.) -- BY: TOM BROOKSBANKA Boy Scout has been playing taps every night outside a New Jersey nursing home where more than 100 veterans have died amid the coronavirus crisis…
‘Nothing short of alarming’: Despite stay-at-home orders, 49 people shot in Chicago in…
ABC News(CHICAGO) -- BY: BILL HUTCHINSONDespite stay-at-home orders firmly in place to blunt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Memorial Day weekend saw an old scourge reemerge with a…
White dog owner fired after calling 911 on black man in viral-video leash-law dispute
Chris CooperBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS
(NEW YORK) — A cellphone video has gone viral and is sparking widespread outrage after capturing a white dog owner calling 911 and claiming an…
White dog owner calls 911 on black man in viral-video leash-law dispute
Chris Cooper spoke with "Good Morning America" about his experience. - (ABC News)By BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A cellphone video has gone viral and is sparking widespread outrage after…
FBI probing death of black man seen pinned down by police and saying, ‘I can’t…
krblokhin/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation will probe the death of a black man who died shortly after being apprehended by police in…
Millions of cicadas to emerge in parts of US for 1st time in 17 years, will produce…
rpbirdman/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(BLACKSBURG, Va.) -- Americans won't be the only ones emerging from their isolation this summer; so too will millions of insects that have been underAmericans…
Weekend travelers to Ozarks are now being asked to self-quarantine
tomorrowspix/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(ST. LOUIS) -- Hundreds of partygoers spent their Memorial Day weekend living it up in the waters of the Ozarks and now health officials are asking them to…
Severe weather expected in the Midwest, heatwave continues in West
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two storm systems, one in the Plains and the other in Florida, brought copious amounts of rain and severe storms on Monday.Just south of Port St. Lucie,…
Coronavirus still carrying infection, death into nursing homes, data shows
Daisy-Daisy/iStockBy MATTHEW MOSK, OLIVIA RUBIN, ALLISON PECORIN and HALLEY FREGER, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- With over 37,600 deaths, nursing home fatalities now account for nearly 40% of deaths from the…