The teachers from Arizona, Georgia and California issued an emotional plea to halt reopening due to safety risks.
When RaDonda Vaught, 38, a former ICU nurse, saw her patient's condition she knew she had made a mistake. "What did I just do to this patient?" Vaught said she asked herself in an exclusive interview with ABC News' Eva Pilgrim for "Good Morning America." It was a mistake that cost Vaught her career and her patient's life.
One person died, multiple people were injured and "heavy damage" reported after a destructive tornado tore through northern Michigan Friday afternoon, authorities said. A Munson Healthcare spokesman confirmed that there had been one death and 44 injuries. 23 patients have been admitted at Otsego Memorial Hospital, 12 patients at Grayling Hospital, eight patients at McLaren Northern Michigan Petoskey, and one patient Munson Medical Center Traverse City.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, urged two Arizona lawmakers to help reverse President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory in the state, according to emails reviewed by ABC News -- suggesting that the conservative activist played a larger role in pushing to overturn the election than was previously publicly known. Thomas, whose political activism following the 2020 election has faced growing scrutiny given her proximity to the Supreme Court, emailed Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Arizona State Rep. Shawnna Bolick in the days following the election in November, asking them to "fight back against fraud" and "do your Constitutional duty!" according to records.
New York City health officials are investigating a possible case of monkeypox as they reported more infections across the globe. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday that after testing specimens from two patients under investigation for possible monkeypox, one case was identified as positive for orthopoxvirus -- the family of viruses to which monkeypox belongs. Confirmation for monkeypox is pending testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, officials said.
Following the nation's latest COVID-19 resurgence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday that it is "strengthening" its recommendation for Americans over the age of 12 who are immunocompromised, and those over the age of 50, to receive their second booster shot. "We know immunity wanes over time, and we need to do all we can now to protect those most vulnerable."
A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday ordered the Biden administration to continue implementing pandemic-related restrictions at the border that effectively close humanitarian relief options for asylum seekers. The restrictions were slated to end on Monday. The restrictions were first implemented under the Trump administration by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which issued an order that derives its authority from a decades-old public health law known as Title 42.
An alleged alcohol-fueled incident involving two Secret Service personnel in Seoul, South Korea, is raising new questions about prior scandals involving the agency’s staff and its ability to maintain the integrity of its mission. The news, ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the country this week, evokes the 2012 scandal in which Secret Service employees were investigated for drinking heavily and hiring prostitutes while preparing for a trip by then-President Barack Obama to Cartagena, Colombia. In the latest incident, the Secret Service responded quickly by sending the two agents home.
Amid a mounting obesity epidemic among children in the United States, a new study finds that only 43% of U.S. early childhood care programs met doctor-recommended guidelines for sufficient outdoor physical activity. About 60% of U.S. preschool-aged children attend day care centers, averaging approximately 30 hours per week while their parents go to work or school. For many children, these child-care centers become the primary source for physical activity.
Blake Lively said she feels "incredibly settled" in her life as a mom. The "Gossip Girl" alum recently opened up to Forbes about how her three daughters, whom she shares with husband Ryan Reynolds, have changed her life. Lively, who hasn't appeared on screen since 2020, said having kids made her realize "my time was even more precious" and made her question projects that didn't provide more "authorship" for her.
June is Pride Month and Kohl's is already celebrating with an amazing new partnership. The retailer has teamed up with ph by The Phluid Collection, an LGBTQIA+ owned, gender-free fashion brand, to launch a collection that's suitable for any and everyone. In addition to its ph by The Phluid Collection partnership, Kohl's also has a wide assortment of clothing, accessories, shoes and home items that will get you in the mood to show your pride.
Another child in the U.S. has died in connection with the mysterious cases of severe hepatitis that have been occurring among children around the country and the globe, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Friday. Investigators learned of the additional death on Thursday, Dr. Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases for the CDC, told reporters during a phone briefing. Officials had previously reported that the deaths of five other children were under investigation in connection to the disease.
U.S. officials are still working out details for the first flight to import baby formula, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Friday, as parents continue to struggle to find supply amid the nationwide shortage. The White House announced "Operation Fly Formula" on Thursday as an effort to transport baby formula from abroad that meets U.S. health and safety standards. The first shipment -- said to be the equivalent of up to 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles -- will come from Nestlé S.A. in Zurich, Switzerland and arrive in Plainfield, Indiana.
An investigation is underway after a Chicago police officer shot a 13-year-old boy during a foot pursuit who authorities allege was involved in two recent carjackings. Police tracked the license plate of a vehicle stolen two days earlier in Chicago to the area shortly after 10 p.m., according to Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown. "The subject flees to a gas station parking lot ... and turns toward the officer," Brown told reporters during a briefing Thursday.
When Maria Clark's son, Nicholas Peters, died nearly two years ago in a car crash, she said she knew immediately she wanted to donate the 25-year-old's organs. Clark, of Madisonville, Louisiana, said she also knew that Nicholas ' wish was to be an organ donor. In September 2020, in nearby New Iberia, Louisiana, Jean Paul Marceaux, 14, was on a waiting list for his second heart transplant.
Model and actress Emma Heming is speaking out about the importance of self-care and the struggles she's faced trying to take on too much while caring for her family, including husband Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with aphasia earlier this year. "I struggle with making the time for self-care every day," Heming, 43, told The Bump on Thursday. "I put my family's needs above my own, which I found does not make me any kind of hero."
Mothers across the U.S. are banding together to respond to the baby formula shortage emergency and execute short-term solutions in local communities while corporations and the federal government scramble to address the crisis on a national level. Kerissa Miller, a mom from Kennewick, Washington, started the Find My Formula, Tri Cities WA Facebook group on May 11 to pay it forward after another mom helped her by donating much-needed formula for her 6-month-old son. Miller’s son MJ was born two months early and needs to be fed a special baby formula made specifically for premature babies.
Nine people were shot, two of whom died, in a chaotic scene outside a McDonald's on Chicago's Near North Side Thursday. A dispute broke out between two groups at approximately 10:41 p.m. eventually leading one individual to fire shots into the crowd, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown told reporters at a press conference Friday. Officers pursued the suspect into a Chicago Transit Authority train stop and arrested a suspect as well as a person who Brown said obstructed the officers.
When Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white man charged in connection with the murders of 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, was a senior in high school, he allegedly wrote a paper saying that he wanted to commit murder-suicide, according to authorities. After a day-and-a-half mental health evaluation a year ago, Gendron was released and his behavior wasn't flagged to authorities before he allegedly carried out the mass shooting last Saturday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday announced the Justice Department is taking action to combat hate crimes through the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, mentioning how last weekend's mass shooting in Buffalo is being investigated as such a crime. DOJ is investigating whether the shooter who gunned down 10 Black people last Saturday at a Buffalo supermarket targeted the victims because of their race. Garland told an audience that included Black and Asian community leaders that "an entire community was terrorized."
New York's political scene -- upended this week by a newly drawn congressional map -- got even more interesting Friday with an announcement from former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. "Today I'm declaring my candidacy for Congress in the 10th Congressional District of New York," de Blasio said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." The new district will span from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn, including de Blasio's neighborhood of Park Slope, if the map is approved as expected by a state judge on Friday.
