Protesters in Portland were captured on video late Monday night singing an altered version of “Happy Birthday” to the city’s embattled mayor, Ted Wheeler, who just turned 58 years on Aug. 31.Corry Young, a photographer for KATU News, posted the video on Twitter reportedly taken from North Parks Blocks, a city park in the downtown…
Muriel Bowser, the Democrat mayor from Washington, D.C., sent an open letter to the U.S. attorney in the district, urging him to advance the “prosecutions of those responsible for assaulting police officers, destroying property and undermining the safety” of peaceful protesters. The letter to U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin comes after violent protests that seemed to…
Biden went first. In a major speech in Pittsburgh, he offered a sweeping indictment of Trump’s America, highlighting failures in his handling of the coronavirus and portraying the president as so desperate to hold on to power that he is resorting to fear and hatred as a campaign strategy. “He keeps telling us if he…
(CNN)Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, the state faces another long, grueling recovery in the wake of Hurricane Laura. Laura destroyed parts of Louisiana's power grid afte…
A Pennsylvania teenager was shot and killed Saturday while attempting to outrun a registered sex offender, according to police. The suspect, 45-year-old Orlando P. Duarte, is facing charges of criminal homicide and prohibited possession of a firearm. Criminal records show that Orlando P. Duarte is registered as a lifetime sex offender for raping a child. (HPD)The…
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…