Jordan Culver, USA TODAY Published 9:04 p.m. ET July 7, 2020 CLOSE Cities across the country followed Washington D.C.'s lead by painting "Black Lives Matter" and other words of support on city streets. USA TODAYA white man and woman who were captured on video vandalizing a Black Lives Matter street mural in California face hate crime charges,…
International students will be required to take at least one in-person class to keep their visas, at a time when many universities are prioritizing online instruction. “I realized that I might be deported back to my home country,” said Loay Alem, 19, an engineering student from Saudi Arabia who attends the University of California Los…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the White House plans to pressure state governors and educators to reopen schools in the fall, despite a soaring rate of coronavirus infections in several states and an overall increase nationwide. "We're very much going to put pressure on the governors and the schools to reopen," Trump said…
Some voters who disliked both nominees in 2016 chose a third-party candidate instead. Now, many of them are shunning President Trump and are ready to back Joe Biden.Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has an overwhelming advantage over President Trump among voters who have unfavorable views of both candidates.Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThree black parents and their children have discussions about raising a black child, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement Authorities in the US state of Indiana are investigating allegations that a group of white men attacked and attempted to "lynch" a black man at a 4…
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…