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Florida Dept. of Law EnforcementBy LUKE BARR, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- One year after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide inside New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center there have been no answers from the federal Bureau of Prisons on what happened Aug. 10, 2019 after a promised investigation and a call for more transparency."We will get to the bottom of it, and there will be accountability," Attorney General William Barr said just days […]

Wolterk/iStockBy CAMMERON PARRISH, ABC News(TEMPE, Ariz.) -- Even as students have begun moving into housing at one of the biggest colleges in the United States, debate rages over if they should even be there in the first place. With the fall term scheduled to begin Aug. 20, Arizona State University is facing backlash from students and staff for insisting on opening in-person amid the coronavirus pandemic. Five hundred staff and […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A derecho moved through the Midwest Monday from Nebraska to Ohio producing more than 500 damaging severe storm reports and leaving more than one million people without power. A derecho is a powerful line of severe storms that produces straight line winds that can cause major damage. The highest winds in this derecho were in Linn County, Iowa, of 112 mph. In […]

Halfpoint/iStockBy ANTHONY RIVAS, TENZIN SHAKYA and. ASHLEY RIEGLE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Nancy Shively, a lifelong educator in Oklahoma, says she’s always loved teaching. But with the coronavirus still raging and schools around the country beginning to reopen, she resigned from her job last week to protect herself and her family.Shively has spent the last few years teaching special education. She said it’s been “rewarding” helping students to develop their […]

iStock/MelpomenemBY: KARMA ALLEN(WASHINGTON) -- Downtown Chicago's expressways and bridges reopened on Tuesday as business owners and emergency workers rushed to recover in the wake of widespread looting and violence.City officials had placed the area on lockdown, restricting access to residents and business owners, following hours of looting and vandalism that damaged businesses and resulted in more than 100 arrests, according to police. Thirteen officers were injured, including a sergeant who […]

Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 733,000 people worldwide.Over 20 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 actual numbers are believed to be much […]

tillsonburg/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A "glass ceiling" keeps women from climbing to the highest ranks of the nation's largest police force, a retired New York Police Department chief alleged Monday in a new lawsuit.Lori Pollock, the department's first female chief of Crime Control Strategies, contends she was forced into retirement last week after 33 years of service due to "intolerable, difficult and unpleasant" working […]

KABC-TVBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A Southern California church that was sued and issued a restraining order over hosting indoor services defied state and local mandates when it opened its doors on Sunday. Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Ventura County hosted three indoor services, marking its latest run-in with orders that the church's pastor said are an attack on "religious liberty." The county, meanwhile, has referred to the church's […]

Kathryn Kirsch/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(CHICAGO) -- At least 100 people were arrested in Chicago overnight as looting and violence overtook the streets, injuring multiple police officers, authorities said.Thirteen officers were injured, including a sergeant who was attacked with a bottle, and at least two civilians were shot during the unrest after midnight Sunday, in the early hours of Monday morning, as hundreds overran the city's upscale Magnificent Mile shopping […]