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EMPPhotography/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered some residents to wear masks, bowing to political pressure as COVID-19 infection rates continue to shatter records in the state which saw 1,775 new cases in a single day.Reeves made the announcement on Tuesday as the coronavirus infection rate shot up to 23.3%, pushing the state one step closer to becoming the nation's next COVID-19 hot spot.Doctors […]

Phototreat/iStockBy QUINN OWEN and KIARA BRANTLEY-JONES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The number of unauthorized crossing attempts by migrants at the southern border increased in July when President Donald Trump's administration used a controversial public health order to rapidly send them back, citing COVID-19 concerns, according to data released by Customs and Border Protection Thursday.Last month, border agents conducted more than 35,000 rapid returns or "expulsions" of unauthorized migrants under the […]

ABC NewsBy DANIEL MANZO and KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Along the East Coast, where millions are still without power because of Tropical Storm Isaias, more rain is expected in the coming days.Nearly 1.6 million customers across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have been affected by power outages.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday that it expects the months ahead to be some of the "most […]

Zenobillis/iStockBy DANIEL MANZO and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(SILVER SPRING, Md.) -- The U.S. could be in for an "extremely active" Atlantic hurricane season this year, possibly "one of the busiest on record," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday.2020 is forecast to see 19 to 25 named storms, of which seven to 11 will become hurricanes. Out of those, three to six are forecast to become major hurricanes, […]

Rebecca O'Donnell is seen at a court appearance in Arkansas, Jan. 29, 2020. - (ABC News)By TAMMY GLASS, CHRIS FRANCESCANI and KATE HOLLAND, ABC News(POCOHANTAS, Ark.) -- In a surprise twist to a baffling Southern murder mystery, the main suspect in the June 2019 murder of former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, will spend 54 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder in court this morning."I went to […]

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 708,000 people worldwide.Over 18.8 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 higher due […]

US ArmyBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(FORT HOOD, Texas) -- After a two-day visit to Fort Hood, Texas, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen will lead to changes to prevent cases like hers from happening again. McCarthy said the Army's broad review of the culture at Fort Hood will help identify and fix the "root causes" that have led to the high number of […]

narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 704,000 people worldwide.Over 18.7 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 higher […]

Raghu_Ramaswamy/iStockBy MARK OSBORNE, ABC News(DENVER) -- The old saying is "you can run, but you can't hide." It worked for a long time for one prison escapee, but the FBI finally caught up to him in hiding on Wednesday.After 46 years, Luis Archuleta was arrested in New Mexico, and will be returned to Denver, where he escaped from a prison cell in 1974.Archuleta, also known as Larry Pusateri, escaped from […]