ABC NewsBY: IGNACIO TORRES, JESSICA HOPPER, and ALLIE YANG(HOUSTON) -- For years, the highlight of Candido’s day has been returning home from work to his wife and children, Caleb and Emma. He has carried the pride of his job as an essential worker in the construction industry.That was until he brought COVID-19 home.“The first symptom was at work. I felt different types of chills. Then my legs felt shaky," Candido, […]
ABC NewsBy BECKY PERLOW, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The logistics of getting even one can of pinto beans into the hands of a hungry family is no small feat, but an army of volunteers in the nation's capital is banding together to make it happen.Those beans, and thousands of pounds of other food, often arrive via freight truck to the Capital Area Food Bank, which has seen skyrocketing demand over the […]
Johnrob/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New York man who allegedly faked his own death last year in an attempt to avoid sentencing on felony charges was ultimately thwarted by a typo on his forged death certificate, prosecutors said this week.Robert Berger, 25, of Huntington, Long Island, was charged Tuesday with offering a false instrument for filing, a felony.Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said the typo, along […]
smolaw11/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The start of the 2020-2021 school year is unlike any other.Amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, many students, parents and teachers across the United States have little idea what the upcoming school year will look like, even as some school districts prepare to start school in just weeks.Teachers in particular have found themselves in the center of the debate as they address concerns about […]
Kuzma/iStockBy JAMES HILL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As Ghislaine Maxwell sits in a federal detention center in Brooklyn, New York, facing allegations that she conspired with the late Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse three minor girls, her attorney is vowing an emergency appeal of a federal judge's decision Thursday to make public a cache of sealed court documents from a civil lawsuit against Maxwell that was settled three years ago.Citing […]
Paula Bronstein/Washington PostBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- The civil unrest and tensions in Portland, Oregon, boiled over again Thursday night as federal agents sprayed tear gas into a crowd that included Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.Protesters, according to ABC affiliate KATU-TV in Portland, say it's likely Wheeler was hit with the chemical agent."Oh, for sure, he got gassed. I was standing with him, within three feet of him," one […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There are three systems from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean that could threaten the U.S. with tropical rain and wind. The most imminent storm is tropical depression eight, which is forecast to become Tropical Storm Hanna. It is forecast to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to Texas. Because this storm is expected to become Tropical Storm Hanna in the next […]
narvikk/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 621,000 people worldwide.Over 15.1 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 to […]
borchee/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Scientists are flocking to Florida’s Gulf Coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425-feet-deep "blue hole" on the ocean floor.The glowing mystery hole, about 155 feet below the water’s surface, is similar to the sinkholes seen on solid land, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The site, dubbed the "Green Banana,” has been a hot topic for scientists and deep-sea explorers who've […]
