PayPal to let users pay with cryptocurrency
FranckReporter/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — PayPal announced on Tuesday that it was giving its users the option to pay with cryptocurrency at the millions of online retailers that accept its payment service. The feature
Asian American veteran bares scars in denouncing anti-Asian hate: 'Is this patriot enough?'
Lee WongBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (CINCINNATI, Ohio) — An Asian American veteran lifted his shirt and bared his military scars, declaring, “Is this patriot enough?” in a powerful speech to denounce hate against the Asian community.
Blinken swipes at Trump administration in unveiling human rights report
Martin Bertrand/Pool/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken repudiated the Trump administration’s approach to human rights, with his most direct condemnation of his predecessor yet. Blinken launched the department’s
New York must offer vaccine to inmates 'immediately,' judge rules
Marilyn Nieves/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(NEW YORK) — A judge has ruled New York must offer the COVID-19 vaccine to all inmates in state prisons and jails immediately, condemning their exclusion from the shots as “unfair and
Biden taps 11 judicial nominees with historic diversity
Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy MICHELLE STODDART, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the nomination of a diverse group of eleven judicial nominees, several of whom he said would make history if
1st news media allowed inside overcrowded migrant facility under Biden
Dario Lopez-Mills – Pool/Getty ImagesBy QUINN OWEN, ABC News (DONNA, Texas) — The Biden administration for the first time on Tuesday allowed news media inside a Customs and Border Protection facility facing unprecedented overcrowding due to the
Biden to unveil massive infrastructure plan, with proposed tax hikes to pay for it
OlegAlbinsky/iStockBy BEN GITTLESON, ABC News WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is poised to unveil on Wednesday what calls his next major priority — a massive infrastructure package that would provide investments in bridges, roads and waterways across
'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star Jennifer Shah charged with running telemarketing fraud scheme
Chad Kirkland/BravoBy MARK OSBORNE, ABC News(NEW YORK) — “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah has been arrested and charged with running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme, according to the United States Attorney for the
Criticism of WHO Wuhan report exposes limits of agency's power and influence
olrat/iStockBy SASHA PEZENIK, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Even as a team of World Health Organization investigators traveled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, critics argued that their investigation would be muzzled by
Experts urge expectant moms to get vaccine to protect themselves and their babies
RossHelen/iStockBy ASHLEY SCHWARTZ-LAVARES, ERIELLE RESHEF and ALLIE YANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) — San Antonio emergency room physician Dr. Nayeli Rodulfo-Zayas spent much of last summer treating patients with severe COVID-19 infections in the intensive care unit,