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(NEW YORK) -- Residents in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas, were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Laura strengthens in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is forecast to make landfall Wednesday night as a major......

(NEW YORK) -- The latest on Laura as of 5 a.m. Tuesday is that the storm is now forecast to make landfall as a major hurricane with winds of up to 115 mph in eastern......

(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 813,000 people worldwide.Over 23.6 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory......

(KENOSHA, Wis.) -- Defying the governor's curfew order, hundreds of protesters outraged over police shooting a Black man in the back in front of his children took to the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, again on......

(TUCSON, Ariz) -- When the University of Arizona opened its doors Monday, more than 8,300 students, faculty and staff had been tested for COVID-19 and everyone on campus was wearing a mask.......

(LYNCHBURG, Va.) -- After a daylong back and forth, Jerry Falwell Jr. officially resigned from Liberty University Monday night, he told ABC News.The embattled religious leader told ABC News he submitted his resignation letter to......

(NEW YORK) -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Marsha P. Johnson, making it country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the......

(WASHINGTON) -- Firefighters battling a barrage of ferocious wildfires across California say they got a break from the weather when a forecasted dry lightning storm in the northern part of the state failed to materialize......

(WASHINGTON) -- The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty sentence for Scott Peterson, who was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife in a highly publicized case, based on judicial error.Scott......

(SIOUX FALLS, S.D.) -- A nationwide manhunt for a man and a woman suspected in a string of shootings in Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana that left two people dead and three wounded ended with......