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01 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT

01 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT

01 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT

A Florida woman is recovering from injuries she received when she was attacked by a 10-foot, 4-inch alligator while trimming trees in Fort Myers.

20 Sep 2020 9:12pm GMT

20 Sep 2020 9:12pm GMT

Tropical Storm Beta has winds of 60 mph this morning and is around 140 Miles southeast of Galveston, Texas moving west-northwest at 5 mph slowly towards the Texas coast line. The latest forecast track of Beta shows the storm moving towards Texas on Monday, with the storm making landfall likely sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning as a tropical storm. After making landfall the storm will begin to slowly turn northeast and track parallel to the Texas Gulf coast through Wednesday and then finally into the Mississippi River valley by Friday.

20 Sep 2020 8:49pm GMT

Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday said he is calling on the Senate to vote on a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election, reversing the 2016 stand he and his fellow Republicans made to block the confirmation hearing of President Barack Obama's pick for the high court in an election year. During an interview on ABC's "This Week," Cruz told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the nation cannot afford to have a short-handed high court with a possible contested presidential election just 44 days away. Cruz began the interview by saying he and his wife's prayers are with the Ginsburg family, "who are grieving the loss of someone who led an extraordinary life."

20 Sep 2020 8:03pm GMT

Global oil refiners reeling from months of lackluster demand and an abundance of inventories are cutting fuel production into the autumn because the recovery in demand from the impact of coronavirus has stalled, according to executives, refinery workers and industry analysts. Refiners cut output by as much as 35% in spring as coronavirus lockdowns destroyed the need for travel. As lockdowns eased, refiners increased output slowly through late August.

20 Sep 2020 8:01pm GMT

U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days, she said on Twitter, becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID-19. "I have taken every possible precaution and still contracted coronavirus," Hayes, a Connecticut Democrat, said in a tweet. Hayes said she was asymptomatic except for breathing issues, which were being monitored.

20 Sep 2020 7:58pm GMT

Ruth Bader Ginsburg symbolized everything that "is best about America," former President Bill Clinton said Sunday while reflecting on the life and legacy of the justice he nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993. Appearing on "This Week," ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, who served as a senior adviser in the White House during Ginsburg's confirmation, asked the former president how Ginsburg's tenure on the court surprised him. "She was only different as I never anticipated she would become, later in her life, a cultural icon and we'd all be doing her exercise routine," Clinton said of second woman to serve on the United States' highest court.

20 Sep 2020 6:47pm GMT

County lines policing reforms have allowed officers to shut down 40 per cent of operations as they turn their focus from "mules" on the street to "controlling minds", police have said. Norfolk, which is a county lines hotspot, has been targeted by police after it emerged London drugs gangs were using children as young as 13 to transport and sell their wares on the street. Police began using the pay-as-you go mobile phones to trace the runners back to London, rather than just chasing the teenagers. The tactics began under the coronavirus lockdown, when police reported it was becoming easier to spot illegal activity because gang members stood out on the empty streets. Since the new drive started, 30 of 75 known lines have been closed down, police told the Guardian. Det Insp Robin Windsor-Waite, the officer leading Norfolk police's efforts, told the newspaper: "It is a massive rollback," adding that it was important police targeted the "controlling minds" operating a web of drugs runners, not just the often-exploited teenagers selling the drugs. "In the majority of cases, the arrest of the line controller terminates the line - and the risk associated with that line," he said. "Prior to this operation there was a degree of resignation to the continued exponential growth of county lines within Norfolk. The outlook has been transformed and our ambition is to completely eliminate the county lines business model from the county." Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast is one of the worst areas for county lines drug running in the UK. David Matthews, a Norfolk Police chief superintendent, said: "For a county force seen as an easy target, we have probably made the environment as hostile as we can." In the last eleven months, 146 London-based alleged county line holders have been charged with selling drugs across Britain. Their reach extended from Scotland to Kent and from south Wales to Norfolk, police said.

20 Sep 2020 6:40pm GMT

Forecasters warned on Sunday that coastal communities could be inundated with floods and see sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 km per hour), though the storm is expected to weaken as it moves inland. This month marks only the second time in history that the sheer number of storms has forced forecasters to turn to the Greek alphabet for names, having exhausted their alphabetical list of names selected before the season began. The first year that storms exceeded given names was 2005, when there were a record 27 named storms.

20 Sep 2020 6:29pm GMT

A majority of Americans, including many Republicans, want the winner of the November presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. The national opinion poll, conducted Sept. 19-20 after Ginsburg's death was announced, suggests that many Americans object to President Donald Trump's plan, backed by many Senate Republicans, to push through another lifetime appointee and cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.

20 Sep 2020 6:05pm GMT

New York Attorney General Leticia James announced reforms for releasing police-worn body camera footage in response to the handling of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after he was seen being pinned to the ground by Rochester Police officers. Prude's death and the delay in the release of the video has resulted in the attorney general's office implementing a new policy in which body camera footage will now be released earlier in the investigation process, as soon as jurisdiction has been established and the family has had a chance to see the video, James said. Previously, releasing any body camera footage was up to the discretion of the law enforcement agency, James said, describing speculation as to whether the video connected to Prude's death was suppressed due to the old policy as unfortunate.

20 Sep 2020 5:29pm GMT

President Donald Trump has updated a roster of more than 20 potential Supreme Court nominees in recent weeks, a list that includes prominent and lesser-known conservatives who would undoubtedly tilt the court further rightward if one were appointed.

20 Sep 2020 5:05pm GMT

US Treasury records show how money from criminal groups is laundered with ease by big banks like HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Chase and Barclays. Florida plays a key role.

20 Sep 2020 5:00pm GMT

The man told one of the women he had inappropriate photos of her, police say.

20 Sep 2020 4:42pm GMT

20 Sep 2020 4:41pm GMT

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on Sunday said she opposes a vote on any U.S. Supreme Court nominee ahead of the November election, becoming the second Republican in the chamber to publicly oppose acting on President Donald Trump's choice, according to several U.S. media outlets. "I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia," Murkowski said in a statement, reported by Axios and other outlets. Fellow Republican Susan Collins on Saturday also said she would not support moving to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the Nov. 3 presidential contest.

20 Sep 2020 4:37pm GMT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sunday, calling her a "powerful, brilliant brain on the court" in an appearance on ABC's "This Week," while refusing to take another impeachment inquiry off the table in order to block President Donald Trump's upcoming nominee to the Supreme Court. Trump, who has pledged to nominate a woman, said at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Saturday that he will nominate Ginsburg's replacement in the next week.

20 Sep 2020 3:53pm GMT

Amir Shedyak, a grocery store employee, told local news that he was fired after trying to stop a purse snatcher during a shift in August.

20 Sep 2020 3:42pm GMT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she would not leverage a government shut down in order to slow down Republicans' push to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

20 Sep 2020 3:00pm GMT

At least 40 rounds were fired during a shooting that left two people dead and over a dozen others injured at a house party in upstate New York, authorities said.

20 Sep 2020 7:13am GMT

Tropical Storm Alpha, named Friday, took the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season into the Greek alphabet for only the second time in recorded history.

19 Sep 2020 7:40pm GMT

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a plan to change 401(k) retirement savings accounts to give low-income earners a bigger tax break up front.

19 Sep 2020 12:57pm GMT

September started off rough for fast-food fanatics: Taco Bell announced it was eliminating the beloved Mexican Pizza as well as several other items. It didn't help fans that this was the company's second major menu makeover this summer -- earlier the spicy potato soft taco said sayonara.

19 Sep 2020 12:12pm GMT

A preliminary 4.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the Southern California area late Friday night.

19 Sep 2020 10:27am GMT

Workers worry that in the not-too-distant future they will be sidelined by humans implanted with performance-enhancing microchips.

18 Sep 2020 2:14pm GMT

Are you having difficulty registering or voting, whether in person or by mail? Are you worried about receiving or returning your mail-in ballot? Do you believe you have seen or received disinformation relating to voting information or the election?

17 Sep 2020 10:05pm GMT

For years, Costco and Sam's Club have dominated warehouse club retail, where members pay an annual fee to buy large quantities of goods at low prices. But a much smaller warehouse chain has gained steam as shoppers load up on groceries in the pandemic: BJ's Wholesale Club.

17 Sep 2020 8:08pm GMT

When the pandemic hit the United States in March, Imperfect Foods found itself scrambling to keep up with a sudden spike in demand.

16 Sep 2020 7:24pm GMT

A lot of people have concerns about mail-in voting (is the Postal Service being sabotaged? Will their vote be counted?), and also about the state of American democracy in general.

15 Aug 2020 12:56pm GMT