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Panel recommends Moderna vaccine, paving way for FDA authorization
nevodka/iStockBy ANNE FLAHERTY, STEPHANIE EBBS, SOPHIE TATUM, and ARIELLE MITROPOULOS(WASHINGTON) -- Federal advisers voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recommend the Moderna vaccine for people over the...
Dec 17, 2020
Snowstorm latest: Deadly nor'easter bringing nearly 3 feet of snow to Northeast
ABC NewsDeadly snowstorm to be followed by freezing temperatures in Northeast: LatestBy EMILY SHAPIRO, MAX GOLEMBO, and MELISSA GRIFFIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A deadly snowstorm is slamming the Northe...
Dec 17, 2020
Michigan man exonerated of murder after imprisoned nearly 40 years
Courtesy of the Forbes familyBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When he emerged a free man from Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility and went directly into eight days of COVID-19 quarantine...
Dec 17, 2020
Kansas mayor resigns amid backlash for supporting mask mandate
ABC NewsBy ALLIE YANG, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Mayor Joyce Warshaw of Dodge City, Kansas, resigned Tuesday after receiving an onslaught of harassment and threats following a mask mandate that she helped...
Dec 17, 2020
Coronavirus updates: Congress to have access to vaccine starting now
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 74.4 million...
Dec 17, 2020
Al-Shabaab operative plotted 9/11-style attack: Prosecutors
DNY59/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At the direction of al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based affiliate of al-Qaeda, Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah conspired to hijack aircraft in order ...
Dec 16, 2020
Federal government in 2020 executed more prisoners than all 50 states: Death penalty research group
Official White House Photo by Tia DufourBy LUKE BARR, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The federal government in 2020 executed more people than all 50 states combined, a new year-end report from the Death Pena...
Dec 16, 2020
Winter storm updates: Nor'easter moves in, Northeast braces for up to 2 feet of snow
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, EMILY SHAPIRO and MELISSA GRIFFIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A nor'easter is hitting the Northeast U.S., where it's set to drop 1 to 2 feet of snow and possibly bring near-blizzard...
Dec 16, 2020
Man with chainsaw chases McDonald's employees, steals food and drink
Facebook/Westbrook Police DepartmentBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News(PORTLAND, Maine) -- A man has been arrested after entering a McDonald’s establishment and stealing food before chasing employees with...
Dec 16, 2020
'Unprecedented' named People's Choice 2020 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com
tzahiV/iStockBy OLIVIA EUBANKS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After Dictionary.com named "pandemic" its Word of the Year, users of the online dictionary elected "unprecedented" as the People's Choice 2020 Wor...
Dec 16, 2020