Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Wedding with over 300 guests in Washington state linked to COVID-19 outbreak
jessekarjalainen/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A wedding in Washington state attended by over 300 people has been linked to nearly 40 COVID-19 cases so far, health officials said.The...
Nov 18, 2020
Video shows Quawan Charles leaving home day he was reported missing: Officials
Family of Quawan CharlesBy MEREDITH DELISO and SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN, ABC News (LAFAYETTE, La.) -- Footage obtained in the homicide investigation of a missing Black teen shows Quawan "Bobby" Charles lea...
Nov 18, 2020
NYC funeral home that stored dozens of bodies in rental trucks shut down
sshepard/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The Brooklyn, New York funeral home that was caught storing dozens of bodies in rental trucks after it ran out of space due to the surge in COVID-...
Nov 18, 2020
Coronavirus updates: US passes 250,000 deaths, nearly 1 in 5 worldwide
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA and JON HAWORTH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 1.3 million people worldw...
Nov 18, 2020
Lawyers for Epstein victim seek 'previously concealed information' from Justice Department
Courtney Wild is seen here holding a photo of her younger self. - (ABC News)By JAMES HILL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Attorneys for an alleged victim of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contend in a n...
Nov 17, 2020
At least one dead, more than 40,000 displaced as Hurricane Iota tears through Central America
ABC NewsBy EMILY SHAPIRO and MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Iota is ripping through Central America, where at least one person is dead and more than 40,000 are displaced.Iota made landfa...
Nov 17, 2020
US successfully intercepts ICBM with ship-launched missile in historic test
U.S. Missile Defense Agency/U.S. NavyBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- In a first-of-its-kind test, the United States has successfully used a small, ship-fired missile to intercept a target In...
Nov 17, 2020
Coronavirus updates: US deaths hit highest single-day mark since May
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA, MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.3 million peopl...
Nov 17, 2020
Hate crimes in US reach highest point since 2008, FBI statistics show
MattGush/iStockBY: LUKE BARR, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — After a gunman walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, last summer, and killed nearly two dozen — mostly Hispanic — people, inv...
Nov 16, 2020
Philadelphia officials announce new, stricter COVID-19 restrictions through 2021
Divepic/iStockBY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC NEWS (PHILADELPHIA) — City officials in Philadelphia will implement a series of new, stricter measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the number of case...
Nov 16, 2020