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(PHILADELPHIA) — A fire in a Philadelphia row house Wednesday morning left at least 12 people dead, eight of whom were children, officials said. City officials revised the death toll Wednesday evening after the Philadelphia Fire Department initially reported during the recovery process that 13 people, including seven children, had died. Two others, including one […]

(NEW YORK) — Defense attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell want a new trial following post-verdict comments made by one of the jurors who helped convict Maxwell of sex trafficking crimes, according to a court filing Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, federal prosecutors in New York asked a judge to oversee an inquiry after the juror granted multiple media […]

(ATLANTA) — Boosters for children ages 12 to 15 are one step closer after a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Wednesday to recommend the third Pfizer shots for adolescents, leaving the final step to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Walensky is likely to sign off later Wednesday, and shots […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 827,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — The father of a missing New Hampshire girl who was last seen over two years ago has been arrested in connection to the case, police said. The Manchester Police Department first reached out to the public for tips on the whereabouts of 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery last week, after it learned she had […]

(ATLANTA) — Boosters for children ages 12 to 15 are one step closer after a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Wednesday to recommend the third Pfizer shots for adolescents, leaving the final step to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Walensky is likely to sign off later Wednesday, and shots […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At least seven historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats Tuesday afternoon and evening, according to school officials. The threats forced campuses to lockdown or evacuate and local law enforcement was alerted. All of the schools have since sent out all-clear alerts to their students, staff and community. NSU […]

(HOUSTON) — Houston police are investigating a New Year’s Day shooting that wounded a 4-year-old girl, identified by her family as Arianna Delane, a niece of George Floyd, the unarmed Black killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. Derrick Delane, the child’s father, told ABC Houston station KTRK that the family’s apartment was […]

(File photo) – Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — At least 13 people were killed in a row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News. “Preliminary information indicates companies arrived at 6:40 a.m. and found heavy fire coming from the second floor of a three-story […]

(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — By the end of day three of deliberations in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, the jury had already decided to find the fallen Theranos founder guilty of defrauding investors who had poured millions of dollars into the Silicon Valley blood-testing startup, according to one juror who spoke with ABC News in an […]