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(WASHINGTON) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 894,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 63.9% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A massive winter storm is pushing east, blasting the Midwest with snow and the South with ice — and now taking aim on the Northeast. Over 4,000 flights have been canceled as of Thursday morning — the biggest flight cancellation day of the year. Dallas, Chicago and Austin are the […]

(NEW YORK) — Youth-led activist group Voters of Tomorrow plans on distributing hundreds of copies of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” to students in Texas and Virginia. These are just two of the many books that have been targeted in recent efforts to ban from schools certain reading materials that parents say are […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The City of Little Rock, Arkansas, has declared violent crime a public emergency amid a surge in shootings in recent weeks. The city’s board of directors approved the resolution for the declaration after it was introduced during a meeting Tuesday by Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. The resolution “demands […]

Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic (NEW YORK) — Authorities arrested four men Wednesday in connection with the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams. Police arrested Irving Cartagena in Puerto Rico following a four-month investigation into “The Wire” actor’s death. Cartagena was caught on surveillance footage allegedly selling heroin to Williams outside a Manhattan building on Sept. 5. […]

(WASHINGTON) — The absence of Sen. Ben Ray Lujan from the Senate is casting new light on the constraints of the evenly divided chamber, with the Democrat’s absence already sidelining some committee activity and throwing the timeline for other Democratic priorities into question. Lujan, a New Mexico Democrat, suffered a stroke Thursday and underwent surgery […]

(BRIDGEWATER, Va.) — The suspect in a shooting on a Virginia college campus that left two officers dead was a former student at the institution, according to court documents. Andrew Wyatt Campbell, 27, faces multiple felony charges, including two counts of capital murder, in connection with Tuesday’s shooting at Bridgewater College. A campus police officer […]

(WASHINGTON) — The persons of interest were connected to spoofed calls – emanating from a fake telephone number, the FBI official said, according to the source familiar with the contents of a call between FBI and DHS officials and state and local law enforcement on Tuesday. No bombs have been found. During the call, the […]

(ST. PAUL, Minneapolis) — The federal trial of three former police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights during his 2020 fatal arrest was abruptly suspended on Wednesday after one of the defendants tested positive for COVID-19, the judge presiding over the case said. The trial, now in its second week in the U.S. […]

(MCALLEN, Texas) — When 21-year-old, first-time mother Samantha Reyna arrived in labor at DHR Health Women’s Hospital in McAllen, Texas, she was stunned to learn that she was positive for COVID-19. “I was actually completely shocked,” Reyna, who gave birth Sunday, told ABC News. “I didn’t think I was going to be positive while going […]