A city with a relatively progressive image and reform-minded police is grappling with a brutal death in police custody — and why it took so long to become public.The Tucson Police Department, in a heavily Latino city, has been regarded as a relatively progressive police force. Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York TimesJune 25, 2020Updated 9:51…
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…