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iStock/Sean PavoneBY: KARMA ALLEN(WASHINGTON) -- Milwaukee's outgoing health commissioner said she faced racism and received threats during her tenure -- events she said contributed to her decision to resign last week.Dr. Jeanette Kowalik said she received anti-Black and anti-immigration threats from white supremacists and was faced with a racist and toxic environment as head of the Milwaukee Health Department."It's one thing to get into a position, it's another thing to […]

ABC NewsBY: IVAN PEREIRA, MIKE TREW, and CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The family of Harry Dunn, a British 19-year-old who died last year after his motorcycle was struck by the vehicle of an America diplomat's wife, filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday.Radd Seiger, an adviser for Dunn's parents, said in a statement that they filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Virginia because Anne Sacoolas has spent […]

deepblue4you/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News(SALEM, Ore.) -- At least four people have died in the Northwest United States as firefighters battle dozens of wildfires up and down the coast.Nearly 200 wildfires across nine western states are currently burning.In Okanogan County, Washington, a child died and his parents suffered third-degree burns when the family attempted to outrun the Cold Springs wildfire, authorities said. Sheriff Tony Hawley said the trio was discovered […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An early-season cold blast has produced damaging winds all over the West, from 60 mph to as high as 97 mph.The highest winds were in northern Utah, that's where the 97 mph wind gust was reported. Also, winds up to 60 to 70 mph were reported in Oregon and Washington, as well as in Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada.Now the wind event is […]

Florida Dept. of Law EnforcementBy JAMES HILL, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Virgin Islands government, in an expanding investigation into the alleged sex trafficking enterprise of Jeffrey Epstein, is seeking documents related to the late financier from billionaire businessman and philanthropist Glenn Dubin, his wife and his former investment firm, according to court filings in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas.Dubin, a New Yorker […]

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 897,000 people worldwide.Over 27.5 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 […]

Johncairns/iStockBy JAMES GORDON MEEK, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- A group of lawmakers launched a new effort Tuesday to recognize a Black hero of D-Day with the Medal of Honor, enlisting the support of a Republican senator who agrees that the late U.S. Army Cpl. Waverly Woodson and his family have been denied the distinction because of the color of his skin.On June 6, 1944, Woodson was a medic with the 320th […]

kali9/iStockBy PIERRE THOMAS, YUN CHOI, JASMINE BROWN and PETE MADDEN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When Philando Castile, a 32-year-old Black man, was pulled over while driving with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, outside of St. Paul, on the night of July 6, 2016, it was far from his first encounter with the local police.Between 2002 and 2016, Castile was stopped 52 times, according to a […]

kali9/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(CHICAGO) -- A hunt for a suspect who opened fire on a car killing an 8-year-old girl was underway Tuesday in Chicago, where authorities said the child was one of 51 people shot in the city over Labor Day weekend.Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown identified Dajore Wilson as the young girl who was "senselessly shot and killed" while riding in an SUV with three adults on […]