Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Two Louisville police officers fired for roles in Breonna Taylor shooting
Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Two Louisville police officers have been fired from the department for their roles in the shooting...
Jan 06, 2021
Former Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields named Louisville's top cop
Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Former Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields was named the new police chief of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednes...
Jan 06, 2021
Coronavirus live updates: 12 states report record-high hospitalizations
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 86.7 million people worldwide and killed o...
Jan 06, 2021
UC San Diego introduces vending machines for COVID-19 tests
InnaPoka/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (SAN DIEGO) -- Lengthy waits for COVID-19 tests are a thing of the past at the University of California, San Diego now that the school is distributing test kit...
Jan 06, 2021
Former SEAL Team 6 member to plead guilty in Green Beret's death
U.S. ArmyBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- A member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 intends to plead guilty next week for his role in the strangulation death of Army Green Beret Staff Sgt. Lo...
Jan 06, 2021
Rev. Al Sharpton demands justice at Andre Hill funeral: 'No more excuses'
STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty ImagesBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- In a eulogy for Andre Hill, the Black Ohio grandfather killed in a police-involved shooting two days before Christma...
Jan 06, 2021
Trump administration opens up more protected Arctic land for oil development
stanley45/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has finalized plans to open a vast amount of protected land in Arctic Alaska to oil development.The Bureau of Land Ma...
Jan 06, 2021
No charges filed against officers in shooting of Jacob Blake
marilyn nieves/iStockBy Mark Osborne, ABC News(KENOSHA COUNTY, Wis.) -- The Kenosha County, Wisconsin, district attorney will not be charging any of the law enforcement officers involved in the August...
Jan 05, 2021
Retired state trooper who responded to Sandy Hook shooting dies of COVID-19
CT State Police/TwitterBy NICOLE PELLETIERE, ABC News(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- A retired Connecticut state trooper who was a first responder to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has died after...
Jan 05, 2021
Covert action and national security
Ivan Cholakov/iStockBy MICK MULROYThis paper explains covert action, the need for it to be more thoroughly integrated into the U.S. National Security Strategy, and advocates for it to be fully resourc...
Jan 05, 2021