William Cummings, USA TODAY Published 11:20 a.m. ET May 31, 2020 | Updated 12:21 p.m. ET May 31, 2020CLOSE Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had an emotional message for violent protesters who brought 'chaos' to her city. WochitAtlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday President Donald Trump's tweets have only helped to stoke the rage fueling…
Calls for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to resign were trending on Twitter Sunday.The resignation calls came in response to his defense of NYPD officers in connection to an incident caught on video in which two NYPD vehicles were seen being driven into a crowd of protesters.“We need a real Mayor. RESIGN, DeBlasio,” tweeted…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump claimed that many Secret Service agents were “just waiting for action” and ready to unleash “the most vicious dogs, and the most ominous weapons, I have ever seen” if protesters angered by his response to George Floyd’s death had crossed the White House’s security fence. In a series of…
May 30, 2020 | 11:42am Enlarge Image Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin via REUTERS Chauvin, 44, is being held in the Ramsey County Jail on $500,000 bail after he was charged Friday — in Hennepin County — with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, the Star-Tribune reported. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension explained the…
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the “underlying problems” of racial inequity in the U.S. need to be addressed in order to stop the coronavirus pandemic which is impacting communities of color at disproportionate rates. “I think it's a symptom of broader racial inequities in our country that we need to work to resolve,” he said…
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…