Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Oakland Zoo begins experimental COVID-19 vaccine program on its wildlife
Oakland Zoo(OAKLAND, Calif.) -- The Oakland Zoo has begun a vaccination program to inoculate their highest risk animals from COVID-19 with an experimental vaccine that has been authorized by the Unite...
JON HAWORTH Jul 04, 2021

China marks Communist Party centennial with warning from Xi
iStock/pakornkrit(HONG KONG) -- As tension runs high in Hong Kong, Thursday marked 24 years of the former British colony's return to China, and one year since Beijing imposed a sweeping national secur...
BRITT GLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News Jul 04, 2021

8 and 9-year-old boys charged with shooting death of 62-year-old man
iStock/Josiah S(WESTMINSTER, S.C.) -- An 8-year-old boy along with a 9-year-old boy have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 62-year-old man in South Carolina. The in...
JON HAWORTH, ABC News Jul 04, 2021

Surfside building collapse's mental toll
iStock/Francesco Scatena(NEW YORK) -- More than a week after the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, 24 people have so far been confirmed dead, with 126 still unaccounted for. As search and rescue...
DR. JACINTA LEYDEN Jul 04, 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa moves through Caribbean, sets sights on US coastline this week
ABC News(HAVANA, Cuba) -- Tropical Storm Elsa is now 85 miles east of Kingston, Jamaica, and 185 miles southeast of Cabo Cruz, Cuba, as it moves west-northwest at 14 mph with current sustained winds a...
BRITTANY BORER and JON HAWORTH, ABC News Jul 04, 2021

Vaccine-hesitant Americans reject delta variant risk, posing questions for pandemic recovery: POLL
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Vaccine-hesitant Americans overwhelmingly reject the reported risks of the coronavirus delta variant, posing questions for the nation's pandemic recovery on a Fourth of July the ...
ABC Audio Jul 04, 2021

Massachusetts police arrest group of 'heavily armed men' claiming to 'not recognize our laws'
(WAKEFIELD, Mass.) -- A bizarre incident unfolded Saturday morning in Wakefield, Massachusetts as nearly a dozen armed men were arrested after a standoff with police in the middle of a major highway. ...
ROSA SANCHEZ and MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News Jul 04, 2021

Surfside building collapse latest: Death toll rises to 24 as search effort pauses during demolition prep
iStock/felixmizioznikov(SURFSIDE, Fla.) -- The death toll at the 12-story residential building that partially collapsed in South Florida's Miami-Dade County last week has risen to 24, leaving 121 unac...
Morgan Winsor, Meredith Deliso and Marlene Lenthang Jul 03, 2021

Elsa weakens to tropical storm as it moves through Caribbean
iStock/eduardo_almeida(FLORIDA) -- Elsa, which was the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, has weakened to a tropical storm, though it is bringing damaging winds and rain as it moves through the C...
Brittany Borer, Meredith Deliso, and Dan Peck Jul 03, 2021

US leaves main base in Afghanistan as pullout now set to end in late August
iStock/Nastco(NEW YORK) -- The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that it had turned over the sprawling Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to the Afghan government and also announced that it now expects the tot...
Luis Martinez and James Gordon Meek, ABC News Jul 02, 2021



