Ben185/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) — A 23-year-old has been charged with second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime after allegedly stabbing a 36-year-old Asian man in the back in New York City’s Chinatown, police sources said.Salman Muflihi, of Brooklyn, allegedly pulled an 8-inch knife on the victim at about 6:20…… Read more »
Kuzma/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(TYLER, Texas) — A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic eviction ban is unconstitutional.J. Campbell Barker, a Trump-nominated judge in the Eastern District of Texas, issued the 21-page ruling Thursday in response to a lawsuit from a group of landlords and property managers.”The federal…… Read more »
(FILE photo) – jacoblund/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — LaToya Ratlieff, a Florida woman who was shot in the face by a police officer’s rubber bullet during a Black Lives Matter protest, said her “heart dropped” when she learned the officer was exonerated but said she wasn’t surprised.”It was expected,” Ratlieff said at…… Read more »
Ben185/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) — A 23-year-old has been charged with stabbing a 36-year-old Asian man in the back in New York City’s Chinatown, allegedly telling detectives that he “didn’t like the way” the victim “looked at him,” police sources said.Salman Muflihi, of Brooklyn, allegedly pulled an 8-inch knife on…… Read more »
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — An active weather pattern with several storm systems is moving through the country, from West to East, with heavy snow, damaging winds, severe thunderstorms and flooding rain.Already overnight severe thunderstorms brought huge hail from Texas to Arkansas.Hail was as large as 2 inches in diameter just…… Read more »
CrackerClips/iStockBy JASMINE BROWN, HALEY YAMADA and RACHEL HUMPHRIES, ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) — During a legislative hearing on Thursday, lawmakers expressed their outrage toward the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) after more than four million Texas customers were left without electricity and heat during a deadly cold snap this month.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said…… Read more »
smolaw11/iStockBy WILL MCDUFFIE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Some students struggling with online learning are being told to return to the classroom or withdraw from their district, a mandate issued or being contemplated by more than 200 districts in Texas and elsewhere in recent months.The move has prompted complaints from some parents that it is…… Read more »
RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(HARRIS COUNTY, Texas) — A $1 billion class-action lawsuit has been filed against Texas wholesale electricity retailer Griddy Energy for allegedly charging exorbitant prices during last week’s historic storm that left millions powerless in the freezing cold.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Chambers County resident Lisa Khoury in Harris County…… Read more »
PinkOmelet/iStockBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The number of reported sexual assaults and unwanted sexual contact at the three military academies went down last year according to an annual Pentagon report released on Thursday, but only because the coronavirus pandemic resulted in cadets and midshipmen being sent home for the fourth academic quarter of the…… Read more »
CasPhotography/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(NEW YORK) — California became the first state to report 50,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.The state’s death toll now stands at 50,994.The grim milestone occurred after 806 additional deaths were reported in Los Angeles County on Wednesday, due to a backlog from the…… Read more »