CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The battle cry from Republican Party delegates gathered at the national convention sounds a lot like “damn the torpedoes.” Party activists at the Republican National Convention, which is locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, do not want President Trump to dial back the high-energy — some say hyperactive — campaign style…
CHICAGO — The latest gun violence to pierce the South Side, including a shootout this week outside a funeral home that left 15 people wounded, has unnerved city leaders and community members who are begging for an end to the bloodshed."Put your guns down," Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference after…
President Trump on Sunday in an interview on Fox News continued to pushback on efforts to rename military bases named for Confederate leaders, asking if those in favor of doing so wanted them to be named after civil rights leader and television personality, the Rev. Al Sharpton.Lawmakers in the House have proposed spending $1 million…
Hong Kong activists have deleted social media profiles and closed down campaign groups after Beijing passed a new security law for the territory that many fear could land them in jail.The standing committee of the National People’s Congress approved the measure on Tuesday morning and it is expected to be enacted in Hong Kong late…
A viral firestorm was sparked by NBC News on Tuesday with its report that alleged Google was removing two conservative news sites from its ad platform.NBC News reported that Google was taking action against both The Federalist and ZeroHedge for articles that apparently "pushed unsubstantiated claims" about the Black Lives Matter movement and violated 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…