BY: HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana) -- Less than a week has passed since Hurricane Laura tore through Louisiana, leaving an estimated 180,000 people there without water.Now, Lake Charles residents are waiting more than four hours for basic supplies, which are being handed out by the U.S. military, and…
BY: AARON KATERSKY, MARK CRUDELE, and IVAN REREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New York City judge was allegedly punched while she was walking to work Monday morning, according to law enforcement sources.Judge Phyllis Chu of the New York City Criminal Court was walking from the Staten Island Ferry terminal…
By MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 847,000 people worldwide.Over 25.2 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…
By MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(MADISON, Wis.) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "respectfully" asked that President Donald Trump reconsider visiting Kenosha this week amid civil unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, saying he was concerned his presence would "only hinder our healing."White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told…
By MARC NATHANSON, ABC News(ST. LOUIS. Mo.) -- A St. Louis police officer who was shot while responding to a call Saturday has died, marking the latest round of summer violence in the Gateway City.Officer Tamarris Bohannon suffered a head wound when he was shot while responding to a late-afternoon…
By BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(BALTIMORE) -- The deputy director of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's Community Initiative, which includes the Commission on African American History and Culture, has been fired for allegedly posting "divisive" memes that appeared to support the white 17-year-old suspect charged as an adult in the fatal shootings…
By MORGAN WINSOR, JOSH MARGOLIN and JACK DATE, ABC News(KENOSHA, Wis.) -- Kyle Rittenhouse was taken into custody on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide in the Tuesday shooting, some of which was captured on cellphone video.One of the victims in the deadly shootings at a protest Tuesday night in Kenosha,…
By WILLIAM MANSELL, DANIEL MANZO and MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Laura is barreling inland across the southeastern United States as a powerful tempest with an "unsurvivable storm surge" expected in some areas, according to the National Hurricane Center.The storm made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border early Thursday…
By BILL HUTCHISON, ABC News(KENOSHA, Wis.) -- National civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson is joining the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot multiple times in the back by a police officer, in calling for prosecutors to indict the officer and others involved in the incident that has…
By BILL HUTCHINSON and WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Violence erupted in Minneapolis overnight when protesters took to the streets, some looting and vandalizing businesses, after social media posts wrongly claimed officers fatally shot a Black man who police alleged died by suicide following his involvement in a homicide.At least…
