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Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office By LUKE BARR and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(SANTA CLARA, Calif.) -- Authorities in California charged an alleged member of the far-right extremist "boogaloo movement" Tuesday with threatening a public official after investigators say he sent threatening letters to a county health officer.The Santa Clara Sheriff's office said it had been investigating letters sent over the last several months to Dr. Sara Cody, the Santa Clara […]

WTVD-TVBy HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(RALEIGH, N.C.) -- Two children are missing after an overnight flash flood swept their mother's car off the road outside Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday.Up to 7 inches of rain fell in some parts of the state overnight on Monday, leading to supercharged flooding.First responders were initially able to rescue the mother and one of the children, but fast-moving water capsized the recovery boat and the […]

amphotora/iStockBy MATT GUTMAN and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- The family of a Black man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies is calling for the officers involved to be identified and prosecuted, as a second night of protests got underway Tuesday.The man, identified by family as Dijon Kizzee, 29, was pursued Monday afternoon for riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle laws, authorities said. […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There is a high chance for flash flooding on Wednesday in the southern Plains. Already, more than a foot of rain has fallen since Sunday from Oklahoma to Arkansas.Additionally, severe storms have produced seven tornadoes in Texas and Arkansas, with significant damage reported near Little Rock, Arkansas.More dangerous weather is expected for the southern Plains Thursday including, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and southern […]

Xurzon/iStockBY: KARMA ALLEN, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Some of the nation's largest cities recorded their hottest climatological summers on record this year, including destinations like Phoenix, Tucson and Sacramento, according to the National Weather Service. In Phoenix, the country's sixth-largest city, residents saw average temperatures of about 96.7 degrees -- almost 1.6 degrees above the previous summer record, the NWS said Wednesday. Most of the country recorded higher than […]

marekuliasz/iStockBy CLAYTON SANDELL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In the shadow of Denver’s old airport tower, the neighborhood known as Stapleton is a place with big parks and modern homes. But residents recently decided the neighborhood had an outdated name.“Stapleton was named after the airport but the airport was named after Benjamin Stapleton, who was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan,” Kimberly Brewer, an activist with the group Rename […]

nito100/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Monica Roberts, a 58-year-old transgender activist from Houston, travels around the country speaking at colleges and consulting with communities on how to better serve the transgender population. But no matter where she goes, her first mission is to call home to her elderly mother, who constantly fears that her daughter might be targeted in a hate crime.With more than two dozen unsolved murders […]

BackyardProduction/iStockBy DR. HEATHER J. KAGAN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A deadly and potent opioid, nicknamed "ISO," first hit the illicit drug market in the United States last year, and since August 2019 has taken the lives of at least 19 Americans, alarming addiction experts and prompting the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to take action. Most of the deaths occurred in the Midwest, but ISO has also appeared in Canada and […]

narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 850,000 people worldwide.Over 25.4 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The criteria for diagnosis -- through clinical means or a lab […]