Ms. Cooper was captured on video calling the police after Christian Cooper asked her to keep her dog on a leash in Central Park.Amy Cooper was captured on video reporting Christian Cooper to the police.Credit...Christian CooperJuly 6, 2020Updated 4:03 p.m. ETA white woman who called the police and falsely accused a Black man of threatening…
Having just managed to get its coronavirus outbreak under control, Singapore is now facing a record-breaking outbreak of a second, equally deadly virus. Cases of dengue fever, a disease spread by infected mosquitos, are now mounting in the city-state, which has already reported 14,000 of them so far this year.Health officials now believe that number is…
More charges have been filed against an Idaho woman after the remains of two of her children were found months after they disappeared.The woman, Lori Vallow, was charged Monday with two felony counts of conspiracy to destroy, alter or conceal evidence, according to court documents.Wearing a medical-style mask, Vallow appeared remotely from Idaho's Madison County…
No Democrat has won or broken even with voters over 65 in two decades. But seniors’ dismay about President Trump could change that.Supporters of President Trump at a Medicare-focused event at The Villages in Florida in October 2019.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesJune 28, 2020Updated 10:20 a.m. ETClifford Wagner, an 80-year-old Republican in Tucson, Ariz., never…
Formal recognition of Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is gaining traction in corporate America, with a growing number of businesses and states acknowledging the holiday.But the day faces a difficult road to becoming a federal holiday and a possibly even longer road to becoming a holiday for the…
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…