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nycshooter/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ERIN SCHUMAKER and MARK CRUDELE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Oxiris Barbot resigned as New York City's health commissioner, saying in her resignation letter that "the Health Department's incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been.""I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the Health Department's incomparable disease control […]

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- Louisville's top police officers walked out of a committee hearing on Monday, refusing to answer questions amid an ongoing investigation into the city's handling of the case of Breonna Taylor, a young Black medical worker who was fatally shot by plainclothes officers.Louisville Metro Police Chief Rob Schroeder and the city's chief of public safety Amy Hess left the hearing without answering […]

strickke/iStockBy ELLA TORRES and ASHLEY RIEGLE, ABC News(ST. ANTHONY, Idaho) -- Preliminary hearings resumed Tuesday for Chad Daybell, who is charged in the case of two Idaho children found dead in June after a monthslong search.Daybell's wife, Lori Vallow, who is the mother of the children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, has also been charged.The hearings began Monday and included harrowing testimonies from detectives who found the bodies of Tylee […]

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 695,000 people worldwide.Over 18.3 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 to testing shortages, […]

Myriam Borzee/iStockBy JON HAWORTH and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 690,000 people worldwide.Over 18.1 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 […]

CHP-Morongo Basin/FacebookBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a missing California mom who vanished after leaving for what she called a "pandemic road trip," according to her family.Erika Lloyd, 37 of Walnut Creek, California, disappeared more than a month ago, after embarking on a seven-hour drive to Joshua Tree National Park on June 14. Family members said they lost contact with […]

Toa55/iStockBy KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A malfunctioning automobile exhaust appears to be the cause of the massive Apple Fire that has scorched 26,450 acres in Riverside County, California, and was only 5% contained as of Monday morning.The blaze, which has destroyed at least one home and two outbuildings, began shortly before 5 p.m. local time on Friday in the Cherry Valley area.No injuries have been reported, according to […]

iStock/niratBy: IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (RICHMOND, Va.) -- The legal battle over the future of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, had two major developments on Monday.Judge W. Reilly Merchant dismissed a case filed by one resident who is blocking Gov. Ralph Northam's June 4 order to remove the statue from Monument Avenue. He also granted an injunction on a second suit that’s aiming to keep the Confederate […]

iStock/MotortionBy: MEREDITH DELISO and LISA SIVERTSEN, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- As many as 20 people were injured when three hot air balloons crashed in Wyoming Monday morning.According to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson, each balloon "landed hard under unknown circumstances" shortly after 8 a.m. local time in Teton Village, near Jackson in western Wyoming.Teton County Sheriff Matt Carr told ABC affiliate KIFI-TV that emergency responders were treating between 16 […]