Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Protests spread across the US after the death of George Floyd In the weeks following the death of George Floyd, much has been said about the long struggle by African Americans for equality in the US. It is 57 years this August since civil rights leader Martin Luther King…
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum on Wednesday blasted one of his police department's top commanders after the officer denied there's systemic racism in law enforcement, then said African Americans "probably ought to be" shot more.Tulsa Chief of Police Wendell Franklin, the first African American to hold that position, on Thursday also denounced the incendiary comments made…
A panicked white woman in New York City's Central Park calls 911 to say that a black man threatened her and her dog. A Florida mom claims two black men abducted her son, who had autism, and was later found dead. But the harrowing story from Manhattan was just that -- a tall tale about…
The search for a Covid-19 vaccine has sparked international media controversy and negative sentiment around the potential harm of people taking part in clinical trials once the research enters its human testing phase.A wave of anger was ignited when two top French doctors said on live TV that coronavirus vaccines should be tested on poor…
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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…