In-Crisis

iStock/Michael Valdez In an effort to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19, United CEO Scott Kirby tells ABC News his company launched a sweepstakes that could win you free flights for a year.  “Your Shot To Fly” is simple: any new or existing members of United’s MileagePlus loyalty program who uploads their vaccination records to the airline’s mobile […]

ABC/JENN ACKERMAN Tonight, ABC News is marking the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death with the special After Floyd: The Year that Shook the World – A Soul of a Nation Special. The one-hour special will be hosted from Minneapolis by daytime talk show host Tamron Hall and GMA3: What You Need to Know co-anchor […]

iStock/coldsnowstorm (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that half of U.S. adults — 129 million people over 18 — are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In adults over 65 years old, that number rises to 73 percent — or 40 million individuals. Even more promising, nearly half of all Americans of all […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — With researchers across the globe trying to accurately pinpoint the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden ordered Wednesday for U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble their efforts” in pinpointing how the virus passed onto humans. In addition, the president wants U.S. agencies to ask “specific questions for China.” President Biden noted […]

(NEW YORK) — Here are today’s In Crisis headlines: Senate to consider January 6 attacks commission; Republicans opposing measure Senate Republicans are poised to quash an effort today to establish a bipartisan, independent commission to study the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol that that left five people dead.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

iStock/SIphotography While few can argue that ending COVID-19 pandemic restrictions isn’t a good thing, all that staying at home has apparently taken a toll on our driving skills.  Thirty-seven percent of the respondents in a new survey admit they’ve entirely forgotten how to drive. The non-scientific poll of 2,000 Americans commissioned by Nextbase Dash Cams revealed that 47% say they […]

iStock/chee gin tan With the COVID-19 pandemic easing in this country, and life slowly returning to normal, what exactly will that mean? ABC Audio spoke with Amanda Fialk [FALK], PhD, chief of clinical services at the treatment community The Dorm, about what to expect.  Long story short, we’ve all experienced trauma, Dr. Fialk says, but how we […]