Monthly Archives: June, 2020

El Paso EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The El Paso Department of Public Health on Thursday morning announced three more people had died from Covid-19, bringing the county's death toll to 125. Officials identified the victims as a man in his 50s, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 60s. All had…

Kai Koerber, a rising sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, is a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Since then, he says, he's made promoting a mental health curriculum in high schools and colleges a personal priority. Brittany Hosea-Small hide caption toggle caption Brittany Hosea-Small Kai…

President Trump’s nominee to take over the Manhattan federal prosecutors office after the abrupt dismissal of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman refused on Thursday to say whether he would recuse himself from pending investigations involving Trump’s interests and associates if confirmed for the post.Appearing before a House Financial Services subcommittee, Securities and Exchange Committee Chairman Jay…

NASCAR on Thursday released a photo of the noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage Sunday and said it was "real."The photo's release comes two days after the FBI concluded that Wallace, the only African American driver in NASCAR's top series, was not a victim of a hate crime as the "garage door pull rope fashioned…

The Trump administration sent almost $1.4bn in coronavirus stimulus payments to dead people, according to its own watchdog’s report.In the report released on Thursday, the US Government Accountability Office (USGAO) said almost 1.1 million dead people received payments of about $1,200 each, as of 30 April.The payments were part of about $3tn in economic relief…