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Lechatnoir/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of pushing his girlfriend onto the New York City subway tracks causing both her feet to be severed by an incoming train, had been imprisoned for attacking a woman and threatening to hurl her child off a fire escape during a 2017 home invasion, according to police.Christian Valdez was arrested following the Saturday morning domestic violence attack at the Fulton Street subway station in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department.Valdez, who listed his address as a women's homeless shelter in Brooklyn,...

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.Since the first cases in Wuhan, China, in 2019, there have been millions of infections and deaths around the world.There have also been major successes including vaccines for nearly all age groups, the development of antiviral drugs to treat those at risk of severe illness and the proliferation of at-home tests.ABC News takes a look back at the some of the most important moments over the last four-plus years:Dec. 31, 2019The World Health Organi...

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday to obstruction charges contained in a new federal indictment filed in Manhattan that added to the bribery and corruption charges he already faced. "Once again not guilty your honor," Menendez said. Menendez came to court alongside his wife, Nadine, who also pleaded not guilty to the new charges. Federal prosecutors said the couple allegedly tried to make bribes -- that took the form of a new Mercedes-Benz and a mortgage payment -- look like loans. The pair allegedl...

ABC NewsU.S. military crews have airlifted nonessential U.S. Embassy personnel in Haiti out of harm's way amid a surge of gang-related violence against the government, according to a statement Sunday from the U.S. Southern Command.The U.S. military said it carried out the operation in Haiti to get some embassy personnel out of the country and bolstered security at the facility in Port-au-Prince, the capital."At the request of the Department of State, the U.S. military conducted an operation to augment the security of the U.S. Embassy at Port-au-Prince, allow our Embassy mission operations...

Charles O'Rear/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- A Philadelphia man who was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1994 arson murder of a woman is now exonerated 30 years later, the District Attorney's Office announced.On Wednesday, Daniel Gwynn, 54, was exonerated and released from state prison in Pennsylvania after the DA's office said they found flaws in the 1994 first-degree murder investigation."The exoneration of Daniel Gwynn today frees a man who is likely innocent," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a press release. "Sadly, it also exempli...