CLOSE Historical Confederate monuments are being taken down and defaced from protests over the death of George Floyd. StoryfulTwo symbols of the nation's divide were passing into history Thursday after protesters in Virginia tore down a century-old statue of Jefferson Davis while workers in Washington, D.C., were dismantling a temporary fence installed last week to protect the…
Hours after George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston, his younger brother made an impassioned plea to Congress to prevent his death from becoming just “another name” on an ever-growing list of black Americans killed by police. Philonise Floyd testified before a House hearing in Washington on Wednesday amid a national reckoning over race…
As mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd's death. According to a former coworker, not only did they know each other, but they had a…
[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The brother of George Floyd is expected to testify before Congress on Wednesday on racial profiling and police brutality. Philonise Floyd, along with family attorney Benjamin Crump and conservative radio…
Multiple news reports suggest that former President George W. Bush will not vote to reelect President Trump when the time comes. How about his nephew George Prescott Bush — son of Jeb Bush and the only member of the Bush family still in public office? He’s a Trump guy. “President Trump is the only thing…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…