Jen Psaki: 'We are focused on our COVID package'
ABC News correspondents discuss the Biden administration's first issues that will be addressed in the coming days.
ABC News correspondents discuss the Biden administration's first issues that will be addressed in the coming days.
House Republicans on Monday called on Democrats to launch a bipartisan investigation into the impact of school closures on children with disabilities, warning that they are in particular danger of falling behind with remote learning. "We are hearing from parents across the U.S. whose children with disabilities are bearing the greatest burden as schools remain closed," Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., James Comer, R-Ky., Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., wrote in a letter to the Democratic chairs of four House panels first obtained by ABC News. Many special needs children also receive afternoon in-school therapy sessions.
Voters in Switzerland have narrowly approved a controversial proposal to outlaw full-face coverings in public. A national referendum on the proposed measure was held Sunday and 51.21% of voters supported it, according to provisional results released by the Swiss Federal Council, which serves as the country's federal government. The measure will make it illegal for people in Switzerland to completely cover their faces in restaurants, shops, sports stadiums, public transport and even on the street.
The warmest air since November continues to build in parts of the Central U.S. and will spread towards the Northeast over the next few days. A large chunk of the U.S. from northern Florida to North Dakota will see temperatures in the 70s and 60s today. Record highs are also possible today across the northern Plains from Nebraska to North Dakota and temperatures in parts of the central U.S. today will be up to 30 degrees above average when, just three weeks ago, much of the Central U.S. was seeing a brutal prolonged cold blast.
What has kept Democrats together in approving President Joe Biden's COVID-19 package is also what has kept Republicans from joining with them. It leaves Republicans voicing concerns about the process and the price tag. Both of those reveal truths about Biden's Washington that show Democrats their possibilities as well as their potential limits -- with the seesaw of power between moderates and progressives making both sides a bit wary.
The video showing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinning George Floyd under his knee for more than 9 minutes as Floyd begs for his life and onlookers scream for the officer to relent may appear damning. Legal professionals who have followed the pre-trial filings and maneuverings say that even with that stunning and difficult-to-watch visual evidence, the case against Chauvin is anything but a slam dunk. While Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is bringing the state’s case against Chauvin before Judge Peter Cahill, the lead prosecutor in court is assistant attorney general Matthew Frank.
The fun shopping segment gives "Good Morning America" viewers exclusive savings on a wide range of great products that you may have picked up for family, friends and yourself. On March 8, she'll debut a new shopping venture called 40 Boxes and shares with "GMA" what you can expect and how she developed a love for shopping. What is 40 Boxes?
Lucille Burden Osborne, known by some as Miss Lucille, refuses to give cruelty the last word in her story. At 95 years old, she grew up in the same house as family members who’d survived slavery, including her great-grandmother Rachel McGruder. As she grew up, Osborne had heard people speak about her great-grandfather, but people rarely spoke about the fact that he is the patriarch to most Black people with the surname McGruder.
Based on investigations between 2016 and 2020, agents and analysts with the FBI's division in San Antonio concluded that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists would "very likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities in furtherance of" their ideologies, according to a confidential intelligence assessment issued late last month. The document, obtained by ABC News, was distributed to law enforcement agencies both in Texas and elsewhere in the country. It focuses on extremists inspired by the white-supremacist publication "Siege," which served as motivation for the neo-Nazi group known as "Atomwaffen Division," among others.
As the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine expands across the country, experts tell ABC News that employers in high-risk industries have begun to wrestle with a new and vexing question: Can a company require its employees to be vaccinated? Michael Anderson, an attorney who is representing 15 Rock Haven staff members who are threatening legal action, said his clients objected to being forced into "a cold mental calculation." In an examination of long-term care facilities across the country, a CDC report found that 62% of nursing home workers are refusing the vaccine.
Listed as missing for almost 70 years, Army Capt. Emil Kapaun's remains were identified as part of an effort by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to identify all the unknowns at the national cemetery in Honolulu. "For our family, it's just an incredible time right now," his nephew Ray Kapaun told ABC Wichita, Kansas, affiliate KAKE on Friday. The storied chaplain's remains were turned over by the North Koreans to the United Nations Command as part of the 1953 armistice.
Capt. Brad Petty of the Chattanooga Fire Department was driving with his family on their way home from his son's wrestling tournament on Saturday afternoon when they saw a car swerve off to the side of Interstate 24 in Rutherford County near Murfreesboro, about 34 miles southeast of Nashville. "When I saw the panic in that man’s face, I knew I needed to stop and do what I could," Petty said in a statement Sunday. Petty pulled over to help and found a young woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
A Texas dad who rocks out with his infant on TikTok is the sweetest thing you'll see today. The duo uses drumsticks on Lane's high chair tray and posts the footage on the TikTok page, "Heavy Metal Baby."
Mickey Guyton might have made Grammys history with her nomination in November, but she said she wasn't even aware of its magnitude at the time. Guyton said she had "no idea" her nomination was so historic. The song, "Black Like Me," puts a spotlight on racial injustice and shares Guyton's perspective on the discrimination she's experienced.
Each minute of Prince Harry and Meghan's primetime interview with Oprah Winfrey seemed to contain another bombshell revelation, from the sex of their second child to Meghan's mental health struggles. "It's what you read in fairy tales, you think is what you know about the royals, right?," Meghan told Winfrey in the two-hour interview. "And that's what was really tricky over those past few years, is when the perception and the reality are two very different things and you're being judged on the perception but you're living the reality of it, there's a complete misalignment," added Meghan, who wed Harry in 2018 and stepped away from the royal family with him two years later, in 2020.
In 2019 alone, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 20,000 reports of suspected online enticement and unwanted explicit material sent to a child. The year before, the Pew Research Center found that almost a third of girls ages 15 to 17 said they had received unwanted explicit images online. Sloane Ryan (who uses a pseudonym to protect her privacy) leads the Special Projects Team at Bark, a monitoring service that alerts parents when kids might be in danger online.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, revealed there was a breaking point where she considered suicide before she and her husband, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, decided to step away from their roles as senior working members of Britain's royal family. "I just didn’t see a solution," Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in a two-hour, primetime interview that aired Sunday. "Look, I was really ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry, especially, because I know how much loss he’s suffered, but I knew that if I didn’t say it, that I would do it," said Meghan, who recalled that Harry "cradled" her when she opened up.
The second child of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will be a girl, the couple announced Sunday in a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. "It's a girl," Harry told Winfrey. Harry and Meghan, the parents of nearly 2-year-old Archie, revealed they are expecting their second child on Valentine's Day, less than three months after Meghan opened up in a New York Times op-ed about a pregnancy loss the couple suffered last summer.
Stone Foltz, a Bowling Green State University student, died Sunday after an alleged hazing incident involving alcohol. Foltz was hospitalized Thursday after "alleged hazing activity involving alcohol consumption" at an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event in Bowling Green, Ohio, the university said in a statement. The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity told ABC News in a statement they were "horrified and outraged" by the incident.
At least 20 people are dead and hundreds of others are hospitalized following a series of explosions at a military camp in Equatorial Guinea Sunday evening, according to the country's president and health ministry. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema read a statement on state television TVGE contending the explosion was due to the "negligent handling of dynamite," according to The Associated Press. The defense ministry released a statement late Sunday saying that a fire in a weapons depot in the barracks caused the explosion of high-caliber ammunition, the AP reported.
Two men have been charged with murder after the body of a teen was found wrapped in plastic at a warehouse near a former fish market in New York City. The 19-year-old was unconscious and unresponsive when she was found Saturday morning at 95 South St. in downtown Manhattan, according to the NYPD. The person who found her, inside a vacant warehouse, called 911 Saturday, ABC New York station WABC reported.