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(NEW YORK) -- Over 12.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases a...

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(ZUURBEKOM, South Africa) -- At least five people are dead and more than 40 people arrested in South Africa Saturday following an attack at a church in Zuurbekom, a town in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.

Four people were found shot and burnt to death in a car while a fifth victim, a security guard, was also fatally shot, local authorities sai...

Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBy QUINN SCANLAN, ABC NEWS

(WASHINGTON) -- The senior Maine senator has represented the state in the upper chamber since 1997, and shes pursuing a fifth term in a vastly different political environment, one where her disposition is increasingly out of step with elected leaders and voters, and her vote in favor of President Donald Trumps second Supreme Court justice nomi...

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(WASHINGTON) -- The resurgence of COVID-19 across the country this summer has deepened anxiety for millions of American small business owners who face another imminent cash crunch in their battle to survive a historic pandemic.

The governments $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program, first rolled out in April, was supposed to help many busine...

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- "Thirteen years as best friends, soulmates, partners and then parents." Thats how Armie Hammer and his wife of 10 years, Elizabeth Chambers Hammer announced on Instagram that theyre breaking up.

"It has been an incredible journey, but together, weve decided to turn the page and move on from our marriage," the post continues, captioning a throwback...

Adene Sanchez/iStockBy HALLEY FREGER, ALLISON PECORIN, and MATTHEW MOSK, ABC NEWS

(AUSTIN) -- The senior citizens who populate Texas nursing homes were not jammed into bars or packed onto beaches on Memorial Day, but officials there now fear that coronavirus that began spreading among younger people over the past month is imperiling the lives of the states most vulnerable.

It was a grim but pre...