The Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday a record-setting surge in anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, led by dramatic increases in assaults and harassment against Jews in New York and New Jersey. In its annual audit, the ADL notched 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents nationwide, a 12% increase from 2018 and the highest number since the civil-rights organization began tracking…
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…