Author Archives: Syndicated Content

COVID-19 live updates: Florida governor prohibiting private employer vaccine mandates
Teka77/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.1 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 767,000 Americans, according to real-time dat...
Morgan Winsor, Emily Shapiro, and Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 18, 2021

Turpin sisters describe living in 'house of horrors': 'I thought I was going to die'
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After enduring more than a decade of horrific abuse and captivity, Jennifer Turpin and her 12 siblings had just watched California sheriff’s deputies take their parents awa...
Christina Ng, Tess Scott, Acacia Nunes, Brian Mezerski and Lauren Effron, ABC News Nov 18, 2021

Astroworld Festival timeline: How the tragedy unfolded
Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- It took just minutes for a crowd of concertgoers to transform into a deadly melee that killed several people during the Astroworld music festival. Rapper ...
ABC News Nov 18, 2021

New Mexico facing 'serious problems' amid latest COVID-19 surge, health officials warn
Bloomberg/Getty Images(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- COVID-19 cases in New Mexico are "trending in a worrisome direction," health officials said this week, as they called on residents to get vaccinated a...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 18, 2021

How experts say farmers can reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture
ABC News(PAUMA VALLEY, Calif.) -- The key to helping curb greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture industry may be hidden just beneath the surface. While in the past century farming has tran...
Julia Jacobo, JP Keenan, and Janet Weinstein, ABC News Nov 18, 2021

Two arrested during Kyle Rittenhouse trial protests
iStock/Lalocracio(KENOSHA, Wis.) -- Two people were arrested Wednesday outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, where protesters have gathered while awaiting a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide t...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 18, 2021

Travis McMichael testifies in his own defense in Ahmaud Arbery case
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) -- In a high-stakes move, Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, took the witness stand in his own defense Wednesday afternoon and testified that during what...
Bill Hutchinson, ABC News Nov 17, 2021

Two men found guilty in the Malcolm X assassination expected to have convictions thrown out
Bettmann/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Malcolm X in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is moving to vacat...
Aaron Katersky, ABC News Nov 17, 2021

DOJ finds Bureau of Prisons failed to apply earned time credits to 60,000 inmates
iStock(NEW YORK) -- Sixty-thousand inmates potentially did not properly receive credits for time served under the First Step Act's recidivism programs, the Department of Justice inspector general foun...
Luke Barr, ABC News Nov 17, 2021

'QAnon Shaman' sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 attack
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Jacob Chansley, the self-described "QAnon Shaman" who infamously marched through the U.S. Capitol with a spear and horned helmet during the Jan. 6 riot, was sen...
Laura Romero and Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News Nov 17, 2021