The city of Louisville on Tuesday announced a $12 million financial settlement with Breonna Taylor's family, eclipsing previous payouts made by police.City officials also agreed to institute a number of police reforms aimed at preventing future deaths, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said."These are significant policy changes on top of many others we have already made including those that are part of…
Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden said Wednesday that he agrees with the Trump administration’s planned drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Yes, I do. As long as he has a plan to figure out how he’s going to deal with ISIS,” Mr. Biden said as he was traveling back from Michigan. Officials…
July 29, 2020 | 8:04pm | Updated July 29, 2020 | 10:03pm Enlarge Image Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, inset; federal Judge Loretta Preska Getty/AP A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday evening agreed to postpone unsealing depositions related to the sex life of Ghislaine Maxwell until the alleged madam can file an appeal. The order…
STEPHANIE LECOCQ/Getty Leaders of the European Union reached a historic deal Tuesday on an $860 billion recovery fund aimed at the reconstruction of the 27-member bloc. By the end of a 4-day summit, the heads of states agreed on distributing 390 billion euros ($446 billion) in grants, and 360 billion euros ($412 billion) in loans…
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a joint news conference at the end of the European summit at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Thys/AFP via Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a…
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…