Tennis|Novak Djokovic Out of U.S. Open After Accidental Hit of Line JudgeDjokovic was disqualified after a lengthy discussion with officials.Novak Djokovic immediately tried to comfort the line judge after hitting a ball toward her without looking.Credit...Al Bello/Getty ImagesSept. 6, 2020Updated 5:13 p.m. ETThe strangest of all United States Opens got stranger still on Sunday as…
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic was defaulted from his fourth-round match at the U.S. Open after he accidentally hit a line judge in the neck with a tennis ball Sunday.It was a stunning end to Djokovic’s bid for an 18th Grand Slam title and his 26-0 start to this season.With 2019 champion Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer…
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…