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alvarez/iStockBY: MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. In the days, weeks and months that followed, millions of Americans started working and learning remotely, social distancing became the new […]

Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Fortified fencing, barbed wire and concrete barricades have gone up around the courthouse and police stations in Minneapolis in preparation for the landmark murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of […]

ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The warmest air in four months will spread across the Central and Eastern U.S. this week. On Sunday afternoon, widespread temperatures in the 60s and 70s are expected across the much of the central U.S. and even northern locations like Minneapolis […]

kali9/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG and NICHOLAS CIRONE, ABC News(BOWLING GREEN, Ohio) -- A Bowling Green State University student is in critical condition after an alleged hazing incident involving alcohol.The student has been identified as Stone Foltz, family attorney Sean Alto told ABC News.Foltz […]

Courtesy of Linda MolinarBy SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER,  MARK NICHOLS, and EVAN SIMON, ABC News(PRESIDIO, Texas) -- Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.He wasn't going on vacation or to visit a relative.Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from […]

kali9/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(SPRINGDALE, Utah) -- A 43-year-old man fell to his death while hiking at Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said.Jason Hartwell, of Draper, Utah, was found at the base of the Angels Landing summit Friday morning, the National Park Service said in […]

TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The Javits Center in New York City is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, after the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a week ago.The convention center in Manhattan is accepting appointments around […]

SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty ImagesBy CLARK BENTSON, ABC News(UR, Iraq) -- Pope Francis gathered members of the prominent faiths in Iraq at Ur, the birthplace of the prophet Abraham, for an inter-religious convocation meant to promote unity among Iraqi's diverse religious communities."This blessed […]

ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — A late winter cold blast is gripping parts of the Northeast Saturday morning. Wind chills in the Northeast are in the teens and single digits. In the interior northeast, wind chills are well below zero. Lake effect snow will be possible Saturday and […]

Courtesy of Thomas Built Buses BY: LEIGHTON SCHNEIDER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools has announced a contract to replace its diesel buses with electric ones, starting with 326 electric buses over the next four years. It marks the single largest purchase of […]

Michael Anthony/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(HOUSTON) -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is opening up about his decision to end the state mask mandate, stressing that he still urges residents to take precautions, but Texans "no longer need government running our lives."On March 10, Texas' mask order […]

Chansom Pantip/iStockBy ANNE FLAHERTY and CHEYENNE HASLETT, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It’s the million dollar question everyone is asking: When will life return to normal? And will school be open this fall?The answers are all over the map -- from Texas and Mississippi governors declaring their states […]

Bill Oxford/iStockBy SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER, MARK NICHOLS and EVAN SIMON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.He wasn't going on vacation or to visit a relative.Instead, he was planning to get a life-saving shot to protect him from COVID-19 -- a […]

katifcam/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(HOLTVILLE, Calif.) -- Authorities have begun to identify the victims of a deadly car crash that happened earlier this week in California, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.The incident was one of the deadliest border crashes on record and it's believed […]

Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesBy CLARK BENTSON, ABC News(BAGHDAD) -- The pope brought his message of peace, reconciliation and tolerance to Iraq on the first day of his papal visit to this predominantly Muslim country.The pope's jet touched down at Baghdad's airport with the event carried live on […]

ABC By KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News(NEW YORK ) -- Duchess Meghan is speaking out about the freedom she feels since she and Prince Harry stepped away from the royal family last year.In a newly-released clip of Meghan and Harry's highly-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey, airing this Sunday, […]

Oleksandr Filon/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Water is slowly returning to homes in Jackson, Mississippi, but a boil water order remains for the city's more than 160,000 residents, officials announced.The city is still struggling to restore water after the state was ravaged […]

Samir Hussein/ Samir Hussein/WireImageBy ROSA SANCHEZ andd ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) -- Britain's Prince Philip has been transferred back to a private hospital in London after undergoing a "successful procedure" for a pre-existing heart condition, according to Buckingham Palace.The 99-year-old […]

danielvfung/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT, ABC News (BEIJING) -- Beijing is poised to block any remaining avenues for the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, leaving the opposition with no way to attain elected office in the Chinese territory.China's decision-makers are expected to grant Beijing vetoing […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Winter is back for the Northeast.Upstate New York and New England are seeing below zero-degree wind chills Friday morning, as the I-95 corridor is seeing wind chills in the teens and single digits.Winds have been gusty Friday morning, blowing at more […]