Matthew Rushin released from prison
After being imprisoned for two years and later granted a partial pardon by the governor of Virginia. Matthew Rushin is free and discusses his plans for the future with ABC News’ Linsey Davis.
After being imprisoned for two years and later granted a partial pardon by the governor of Virginia. Matthew Rushin is free and discusses his plans for the future with ABC News’ Linsey Davis.
Simone Biles and Athleta have entered into a new partnership. Together, the brand and Biles, plan to expand the mission of fostering community, igniting activity and inspiring the next generation to be the best version of themselves, the company said. In her role with Athleta, she will collaborate with the design team to develop signature products.
As federal advisers consider Friday whether Johnson & Johnson vaccine injections should resume after reports of rare blood clots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says there are 15 confirmed reports of blood clots with low platelet counts following the J&J vaccine. The number of these rare reactions is more than double the six cases initially reported that prompted federal regulators to recommend a temporary suspension of the vaccine, but they arise out of the nearly 8 million J&J shots given. Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a member of the CDC’s task force on COVID-19 vaccines, provided the update at a meeting Friday of an independent advisory panel that will help federal regulators decide whether to resume J&J vaccinations.
"Bachelorette" star Tayshia Adams, who fell in love with Zac Clark during the series' most recent season, will host the show alongside fellow alum Kaitlyn Bristowe, and says that people are looking for a change in the show. Adams appeared on the latest episode of the "Going to Bed With Garcelle" podcast and was grilled on the upcoming season, which premieres later this summer. "Everything just kind of fell into place to where the world needs something fresh and new," the 30-year-old reality star said.
President Joe Biden will make his first overseas trip as president in June, traveling to the United Kingdom and Belgium to participate in the G-7 summit and the NATO summit, the White House announced Friday. Biden will attend the G-7 Summit in Cornwall, U.K., which is happening from June 11-13, where he will "work to advance key U.S. policy priorities on public health, economic recovery, and climate change, and demonstrate solidarity and shared values among major democracies," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. Psaki also noted Biden will hold bilateral meetings with other G-7 leaders, including U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympian and reality TV star, has filed paperwork to run for governor of California, taking the first official step in a bid to compete against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is facing a possible recall election this year. "For the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people," she said, announcing her campaign. "I have been a compassionate disrupter throughout my life," Jenner continued.
Late last year, as a team of Minnesota state prosecutors was preparing for the trial that would ultimately convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd, they received a series of videos depicting Chauvin's handling of another case three years earlier that by their own description shocked them. The videos, from Sept. 4, 2017, allegedly showed Chauvin striking a Black teenager in the head so hard that the boy needed stitches, then allegedly holding the boy down with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, and allegedly ignoring complaints from the boy that he couldn't breathe. "Those videos show a far more violent and forceful treatment of this child than Chauvin describes in his report" of the incident, one of the state prosecutors, Matthew Frank, wrote in a court filing at the time.
There's no question Chadwick Boseman left an indelible mark on Hollywood. The late actor, who died at the age of 43 in August after a private four-year battle with colon cancer, has been posthumously nominated for a best actor Oscar for his role in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." During a press run in 2018 for "Black Panther," Boseman told ABC Audio the significance of being recognized by the Academy for his work.
The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he is ending a hunger strike after 24 days, following a dire warning by his doctors a day earlier. Navalny, known as the Kremlin's fiercest critic, declared the hunger strike at the end of March to demand that authorities allow his own doctors to treat him for severe back pain caused by two herniated discs. Since last weekend, Navalny's allies have warned that his health was seriously deteriorating and this week thousands of people joined protests across Russia after his team warned he could be days from death.
Gal Gadot is adding another daughter to her growing family. The "Wonder Woman" star has finally spilled the beans and said she is very excited she'll soon be the proud mom of three girls. Gadot happily credited her two daughters -- 9-year-old Alma and 4-year-old Maya -- for preparing her for her new bundle of joy when host Kelly Ripa assured her that the third daughter "is going to be your easiest child."
"Nip/Tuck" alum AnnaLynne McCord is opening up about her mental health struggles. In an interview with “Good Morning America,” McCord spoke about her battle with dissociative identity disorder, which is formerly known as multiple personality disorder. “I wanted to die for so much of my life, I didn’t want to be here,” McCord said.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has declared a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three other urban prefectures in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 ahead of the already-delayed Summer Olympics. During a national address Friday night, Suga announced that a state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures will begin Sunday and last through May 11. The move was earlier endorsed by a panel of experts advising the Japanese government on COVID-19.
Amid the rustle of paper, the sounds of a pencil scribbling away and a calming fire crackling in the background, 27-year-old Hani Kang sits at her desk and pages through books for 12 hours straight. There is absolutely nothing but her books and pens on a neatly organized desk and yet almost one hundred people are watching her study. It’s called Gong-bang -- short for the Korean word Gongbu Bangsong which translates to "study broadcast" -- and YouTube videos featuring people studying are drawing large numbers of subscribers in South Korea.
In the Nevada desert, there’s a quiet frenzy building over a rare resource that will be crucial to meeting the country’s goals to slow down climate change. Lithium, the crucial component in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, has mostly been produced in countries like Australia, Chile and China. There’s only one commercial lithium mine operating in the U.S., a facility in Silver Peak, Nevada, that has been using ponds to evaporate groundwater and harvest lithium since the 1960s.
Confidence that police in the United States are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force reached a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, and 60% of Americans say the country should do more to hold police accountable for mistreatment of Black people. More broadly, 63% say Black people and other minorities do not receive equal treatment as whites in the criminal justice system -- off its peak, 69%, last July, but the next highest in polls dating to 1988. In political terms, 42%, a plurality overall, say President Joe Biden is doing “too little” to try to reform police practices in this country.
Washington officials are sounding the alarm that the state is on the "cusp" of a fourth COVID-19 wave that could curtail further reopening plans if not abated. Health officials blamed a combination of waning diligence on mitigation measures and the spread of more transmissible variants, as COVID-19 cases have increased to levels seen at the beginning of the last wave in November. "We'd like to be done with the virus, but the virus is not done with us," Gov. Jay Inslee said during a COVID-19 update Thursday.
As authorities investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continue to pore over images and video of the riot, they've encountered a distressing trend: A growing number of alleged perpetrators had previously served their country. At least 52 active or retired military, law enforcement, or government service employees are among the over 400 suspects arrested for their alleged actions at the Capitol, according to an ABC News investigation based on military records, court records, interviews, and publicly available news reports. Mary McCord, a longtime national security official who now runs Georgetown University's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, said extremism among those with military or law enforcement backgrounds is a serious problem that needs to be addressed immediately.
More than 6 million women of childbearing age in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, yet infertility, and specifically the emotional and physical pain that comes with it, is still a taboo topic, even among some women. L'Oreal Thompson Payton, a 33-year-old from Chicago, said she never heard discussions about infertility and infertility treatments when she was growing up.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to halt plans for people around the world, women are thinking about their fertility future and taking family planning into their own hands. When the pandemic hit, Stuckless said she was able to take the time needed for the process. Stuckless joins the many women who have turned to egg freezing amid the pandemic.
A Minnesota couple that suffered through three years of infertility welcomed two daughters over the past two months. Kelsi Pierce, 31, gave birth to her daughter, Ava, on Nov. 23, in Minnesota. Everly was delivered by Pierce's mother, Lisa Rutherford, who was the gestational carrier for the Pierces, who are Everly's biological parents.
A bill designed to change how Arizona's early voting list works was voted down in the Republican-led state Senate where it was originally expected to pass. SB 1485, would have dissolved the word "permanent" from references to the state's early voting list, ultimately removing people from the list if they did not use it to vote within a certain time period. It failed in the Republican-controlled Senate Thursday on a vote of 14-16.