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In the wake of the tragic milestone of 1 million official COVID-19 deaths in the United States, a new analysis found that without vaccines, the virus would have likely claimed more than 100,000 additional lives in 2021. The analysis, sponsored by Pfizer, estimated that the Pfizer vaccine alone likely saved more than 110,000 lives in 2021, the first year of the vaccination campaign. "With this model, I don’t see the numbers falling out of range and I do suspect that they are a reasonable representation of what could’ve happened in the absence of COVID-19 vaccines," Dr. Amesh Adalja, FIDSA, infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, told ABC News.
Ten people were killed and another three wounded when a mass shooting erupted at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that authorities allege was a "racially motivated hate crime" carried out by a heavily armed white teenager who fired a barrage of 50 shots outside and inside the market. The shooter livestreamed the Saturday afternoon attack on social media and etched the names of previous mass shooters and racial epithets on the gun he allegedly used to carry out the attack, a source familiar with the investigation told ABC News. The gunman, wearing military fatigues, body armor and a tactical helmet, shot four people in the parking lot of a Tops supermarket around 2:30 p.m., three fatally.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was hospitalized this weekend after suffering a minor stroke, he said Sunday. An angiogram Sunday indicated he had "experienced a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of my head," Van Hollen said, adding that he has been told there are no "long-term effects or damage as a result of this incident." The news comes after Pennsylvania Lt. Gov John Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, said he also suffered a stroke, on Friday.
One person was killed and five were wounded in a shooting at a church in Laguna Woods, California, on Sunday, authorities said. Four were critically hurt and one person suffered minor injuries from the shooting inside the Geneva Presbyterian Church, the Orange County Sheriff's Office tweeted. A group of churchgoers detained the suspect and hogtied his legs with an extension cord and confiscated two handguns from him before more people could be shot, according to Jeff Hallock, Undersheriff at the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Ten people were killed as a result of a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, committed in what investigators described as a possible hate crime. The victims included four employees of a Tops supermarket, and the rest were customers -- several of them regulars at the store -- according to the Buffalo Police Department and those who knew them. Ruth Whitfield was returning home from visiting her husband in a nursing home when she stopped by Tops to pick up groceries -- "a daily ritual," her son, Garnell Whitfield, told ABC News Sunday morning.
Wynonna Judd will honor her mother by doing The Judds: The Last Tour as planned, she announced during "Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration," which aired live on CMT Sunday evening. "I will continue to sing," Wynonna Judd, who makes up one-half of The Judds, said on stage. Last week, Naomi Judd's other daughter, actress Ashley Judd, spoke out about her mother's death and told ABC News' Diane Sawyer that she and her sister Wynonna lost their mother "to the disease of mental illness."
The gunman who opened fire on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities described as a "racially-motivated attack" has a "hate-filled soul," President Joe Biden said Sunday. While speaking at an event to honor law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021, Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden were praying for the victims and their families. "A lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul, shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery store on Saturday afternoon," the president told the crowd outside of the Capitol.
Two people are dead and three others are hurt from a shooting at a Houston flea market, where thousands of people were shopping on a busy Sunday, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. No innocent bystanders were hurt, authorities said.
Pennsylvania's Lt. Gov John Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race, said Sunday that he suffered a stroke on Friday. "I had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long," Fetterman said in a statement released Sunday afternoon. Fetterman and his wife, who he credited for catching his stroke symptoms, also posted a video from a hospital.
Fragrance Harris Stanfield, a mother of seven, was at work at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, when she heard gunshots. One of Stanfield's children -- her 20-year-old daughter -- was also working at the store, at register 6. In the commotion, Stanfield said she realized she was separated from her daughter.
The 18-year-old suspect who allegedly shot and killed ten people at a supermarket on Saturday afternoon in the heart of a Black community in Buffalo, appears to have been motivated by extremist beliefs and has a history of making violent threats, according to authorities. Payton S. Gendron allegedly traveled more than three hours from Conklin, New York, to the Tops Friendly Market, according to law enforcement, to carry out the attack in a predominantly Black community. Law enforcement sources told ABC News the alleged shooter's extremist beliefs may have been cultivated online and he appears to have expressed racially motivated extremist views in his online postings.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that social media companies have to address and track down extremism on their platforms, after a gunman who reportedly espoused white supremacist ideology opened fire at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday, killing at least 10. Following Buffalo shooting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells @GStephanopoulos that people have to alert the authorities if they think that someone they know "is on a path to domestic terrorism, to violence of any kind." "There has to be vigilance," Pelosi, D-Calif., told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
A retired police officer is being praised for the valiant actions he took to protect others when a gunman opened fire on a supermarket, killing 10 people in an alleged hate crime. Aaron Salter was working as a security guard for the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, when a gunman shot four people in the parking lot, according to the Buffalo Police Department. Once the shooter, outfitted in military fatigues, body armor and a tactical helmet, proceeded inside the store, Salter confronted him, shooting and striking the man, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph A. Gramaglia told ABC News Sunday.
Law enforcement officials say the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting has underscored their long-held fear that someone could be radicalized online, have access to guns, take inspiration from prior attacks and then carry out an act of murderous violence against a soft target, like a grocery store. Ten people -- all of whom were Black -- were killed in Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo in a rampage authorities are calling a "racially-motivated hate crime." The 180-page document believed to have been written by the Buffalo suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, includes praise for the 2015 mass shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church where nine Black parishioners were gunned down.
The United States has hit a grim milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths. During the past two years the virus has posed a deadly risk, but it hasn’t affected every person the same way. The pandemic has highlighted inequalities that have already existed -- and exposed new disparities between age, race and political affiliation.
The Los Angeles Department is investigating after a man was shot and killed near Grand Central Market in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon at 3:56 p.m., according to police. Grand Central Market released a statement on Instagram Saturday following the incident. "While the incident did not take place within Grand Central Market, we will be tightening security and proactively working with proper authorities to further assess the situation."
The decision to subpoena House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other sitting GOP lawmakers by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack marked a sharp escalation in the panel’s inquiry – and the potential setting of a new modern precedent in the House. While congressional ethics committee empowered to investigate misconduct have subpoenaed sitting lawmakers, there are few modern instances of other committees issuing subpoenas to members of the body, Irv Nathan, the former House counsel during Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s first two terms leading the chamber, told ABC News. “The crucial matter is what the subpoenas are for,” Charles Tiefer, another former House counsel and law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, told ABC News.
Britney Spears revealed she has suffered a miscarriage a month after announcing she was pregnant with her "miracle child." The "Toxic" singer, 40, and her fiancé, Sam Asghari, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday. "It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy," they said in a joint statement.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson imposed a two-night curfew for individuals under the age of 21 within the city's entertainment district on Saturday. Police will be enforcing the curfew and individuals found in violation will be arrested and fined $691, according to police. The curfew comes after three shootings in the entertainment district left 21 people injured on Friday.
Rising hip-hop star Lil Keed, has died, his brother announced early Saturday morning. "Can't believe I seened you die today bro I did all my cries I know what you want me to do and that's go hard for Mama Daddy Our brothers Naychur and Whiteboy," rapper Lil Gotit, Keed's brother, wrote on his verified Instagram account. Lil Keed, who was 24, and whose real name is Raqhid Jevon Render, was set to perform on Saturday at the Daze in Blue music festival in Charlotte, North Carolina.
