Coronavirus live updates: US sees record death total
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 86.1 million people worldwide and killed over 1.8 million of them, according to real-time
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un admits his economic plan has failed
JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty ImagesBy JOOHEE CHO and HAKYUNG KATE LEE, ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an unprecedented move during the first day of the communist regime’s largest political
'This is a historic moment,' Warnock says of projected victory
ABC NewsBy QUINN SCANLAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, said that his projected victory in one of Georgia’s dual U.S. Senate runoffs is a “historic moment,” adding that he “can’t wait”
Historic showdown in Congress as GOP members challenge Biden's electoral vote win
drnadig/iStockBy BENJAMIN SIEGEL, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In a historic turn of events Wednesday, more than 100 Republicans in the House and a dozen in the Senate are expected to join with President Donald Trump in a
ABC News projects Warnock will defeat Loeffler in Georgia Senate race
Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesBy KENDALL KARSON, ABC News (ATLANTA) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a prominent Black preacher who leads Atlanta’s storied Ebenezer Baptist Church, has secured a barrier-breaking victory in Georgia. ABC News projects that Warnock
Fit Finance: Influencers share nine tips for paying down debt in 2021
AndreyPopov/iStockBy JOEL LYONS, ABC News (NEW YORK) — In 2020, ABC News’ Good Morning America met the creators behind some unique methods to pay down debt. Thanks to the processes they shared, they’ve managed to eliminate as
Hong Kong police arrest over 50 opposition figures in national security crackdown
pawel.gaul/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News (HONG KONG) — Dozens of Hong Kong opposition figures, including an American lawyer, were detained on subversion charges Wednesday in what activists see as a brazen attempt to clamp
With LA hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19, EMS told not to transport certain patients
ChristopherBernard/iStockBy MATT GUTMAN, ESTHER CASTILLEJO and ANTHONY RIVAS, ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles hospitals have been scrambling to care for the rising number of coronavirus patients for weeks now, turning chapels and gift shops into
UC San Diego introduces vending machines for COVID-19 tests
InnaPoka/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (SAN DIEGO) — Lengthy waits for COVID-19 tests are a thing of the past at the University of California, San Diego now that the school is distributing test kits — for free
Former SEAL Team 6 member to plead guilty in Green Beret's death
U.S. ArmyBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 intends to plead guilty next week for his role in the strangulation death of Army Green Beret Staff Sgt. Logan