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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 […]

(AURORA, Colo.) — Taniya Freeman, 14, was found on Tuesday in Aurora, Colorado, after being reported missing over the weekend. A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said that she’s now home safe with her mother. Freeman’s father, Nigel Freeman, said the family had no additional comment but that they appreciated everyone who shared the […]

(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — An FBI dive team is assisting in the search for missing 3-year-old Lina Sardar Khil, authorities said. The investigation has led the FBI’s underwater search and evidence response team to an area not previously searched, according to San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. “We don’t want to leave anything to chance,” […]

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — Thousands of homes in southcentral Alaska are without power amid below-freezing weather after a persistent windstorm with gusts up to 90 mph blew through the area over the weekend, taking down power lines, damaging buildings and flipping semitrucks and small aircraft. Approximately 8,500 people in the Matanuska Susitna Valley — a borough […]

(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, […]

(NEW YORK) — Some state-run vaccine lotteries did not help increase COVID-19 immunization rates, a new study suggests. Over the spring and summer, at least 19 states — including California, New York, Ohio and West Virginia — tried to incentivize unvaccinated individuals to get shots, offering cash prizes, free tickets, guns, college scholarships and trucks. […]

(WASHINGTON) — Last Oct. 16, one man was shot and killed and another was wounded at a home in Hardeman County, Tennessee. Ten days later, the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force hunted down and caught the suspects hundreds of miles apart, both wanted for murder. Thomas Bishop Jr., 27, was located in […]