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Devonyu/iStockBy OLIVIA EUBANKS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As the Black Lives Matter movement has picked up momentum around the nation in recent months, companies like Dictionary.com are paying more attention to language use and redefining words that reflect culture, identity and race."The work of a dictionary is more than just adding new words. It’s an ongoing effort to ensure that how we define words reflects changes in language -- and […]

KABC-TVBy MARC NATHANSON, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Protesters gathered in South Los Angeles Monday night after Los Angeles sheriff's deputies shot and killed a Black man who they say had a handgun and was fighting with them.The shooting occurred Monday afternoon after two deputies pulled over a man who was riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle laws, according to Sheriff's Department Lt. Brandon Dean.The man got off the bike […]

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 […]

kuzma/iStockBy Ivan Pereira, ABC News(LOUISVILLE) -- Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who allegedly opened fire at the officers who shot and killed her, announced Tuesday he's suing the city of Louisville, its police and others, for immunity against his actions that night under Kentucky's "stand your ground" law.Walker, 27, and a licensed gun owner, was initially charged with attempted murder and assault following the March 13 incident, but […]

william87/iStockBy ALEX STONE and MINA KAJI, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- There is a mystery unfolding in Los Angeles. It wasn’t Buzz Lightyear or Robert Downey Jr. in "Iron Man," but pilots landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday evening reported seeing a man wearing a jetpack flying near their planes.American Airlines flight 1997 from Philadelphia to L.A. was the first to report in."Tower, American 1997, we just passed a […]

MivPiv/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The Bureau of Prisons announced on Monday that in-person visits will resume at all 122 facilities within the bureau, according to an internal memo obtained by ABC News."Social visiting will resume no later than Saturday, October 3, 2020," the memo states, and visits will be non-contact only."Use of Plexiglas or a similar barrier between inmate and visitors will prevent any contact. In the […]

ABC NewsBy DEVIN DWYER and JACQUELINE YOO, ABC News(FAIRFAX, Va.) -- The largest and most diverse public university in Virginia is overhauling how it handles issues of race on campus.After a summer of protests and public health crises, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, is piloting an aggressive anti-racism agenda that school officials hope will become a model for the nation."We want to be a national leader in the discussion […]

iStock/Darwin BrandisBY: HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana) -- Less than a week has passed since Hurricane Laura tore through Louisiana, leaving an estimated 180,000 people there without water.Now, Lake Charles residents are waiting more than four hours for basic supplies, which are being handed out by the U.S. military, and desperately trying to clean up after the devastating storm.“We need everything we can take, anything we can get,” said […]

US NavyBY: LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- This year's version of the RIMPAC naval exercise off the coast of Hawaii ended with a bang this weekend as the old Navy cargo ship USS Durham was sunk by a missile barrage from various ships participating in the international exercise.The exercise was scaled back significantly because of the coronavirus pandemic but U.S. Navy officials said it still provided valuable experience in working […]