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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 […]

iStock/sshepardBy: AARON KATERSKY and BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A former Columbia University doctor who critics charged was let off easy in a 2016 no-jail plea deal in a sexual assault case has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using his position to sexually abuse female patients.The federal indictment against Robert Hadden, a former gynecologist and obstetrician at the New York City Ivy League […]

U.S. Attorney's OfficeBY: AARON KATERSKY and JUSTIN DOOM(NEW YORK) -- Ethan Melzer, the former Army private accused of plotting with a Satanic neo-Nazi group known as O9A to kill fellow soldiers, pleaded not guilty to new charges brought Wednesday.The superseding indictment includes two new counts of illegal transmission of defense information."While deployed overseas as a member of the United States Army the defendant was also a member of a white […]

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 […]

Kids4Change757BY: ESTHER CASTILLEJO and HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(HAMPTON, Virginia) -- Eleven-year-old Cartier Carey spent his summer at his lemonade stand in Hampton, Virginia raising money to buy diapers, wipes and other supplies for parents who needed help during the COVID-19 pandemic.Cartier told ABC News that he noticed a shortage of diapers in stores during the pandemic and wanted to help.“There was no diapers at all and I was like, ‘Oh, […]

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 […]