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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 […]

ABCBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, KAYNA WHITWORTH, ANNIE PONG, and JENNA HARRISON, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As the governor of Oregon announced a plan to end violence in Portland following a fatal shooting during clashes between protesters on one hand and radical right activists and supporters of President Donald Trump on the other, a video emerged of a group of police in the city repeatedly punching a protester being held on the ground.Portland […]

MarianVejcik/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(BOSTON) -- Hundreds of people gathered Sunday to protest a new flu vaccine mandate for Massachusetts students, enacted as school districts prepare to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.At the demonstration in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, protesters -- some of them children -- held signs that read "Unavoidably unsafe," "My child, my choice," "Parents call the shots" and "I am not a threat." […]

luchezar/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(BALTIMORE) -- The deputy director of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's Community Initiative, which includes the Commission on African American History and Culture, has been fired for allegedly posting "divisive" memes that appeared to support the white 17-year-old suspect charged as an adult in the fatal shootings of two men at a protest for Jacob Blake, officials said.Blake is a Black man who was shot in the […]

St. Louis Police DepartmentBy MARC NATHANSON, ABC News(ST. LOUIS. Mo.) -- A St. Louis police officer who was shot while responding to a call Saturday has died, marking the latest round of summer violence in the Gateway City.Officer Tamarris Bohannon suffered a head wound when he was shot while responding to a late-afternoon call involving a gunman, St. Louis Police Commissioner John Hayden told reporters Saturday.After Bohannon was shot, one […]

Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(MADISON, Wis.) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "respectfully" asked that President Donald Trump reconsider visiting Kenosha this week amid civil unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, saying he was concerned his presence would "only hinder our healing."White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that Trump planned to travel to the […]

Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 847,000 people worldwide.Over 25.2 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 […]

iStock/Marco_PiuntiBY: AARON KATERSKY, MARK CRUDELE, and IVAN REREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New York City judge was allegedly punched while she was walking to work Monday morning, according to law enforcement sources.Judge Phyllis Chu of the New York City Criminal Court was walking from the Staten Island Ferry terminal to the courthouse around 9 a.m. when a person on a bike allegedly punched her in the jaw, according to […]

Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesBy MORGAN WINSOR and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS    (PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A day after a deadly shooting in downtown Portland, Oregon, President Donald Trump and Mayor Ted Wheeler were in a war of words after Trump called the mayor "a fool."One person was killed Saturday night as protests in Oregon's largest city entered their fourth month.Portland police officers found a person with a gunshot wound to the chest, […]