U.S.|2 Dams Fail in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to EvacuateThe failure of the dams was expected to bring record-setting flooding, with the response complicated by the coronavirus.A dam on Wixom Lake in Edenville, Mich., on Tuesday.Credit...Kaytie Boomer/The Bay City Times, via Associated PressPublished May 19, 2020Updated May 20, 2020, 10:57 a.m. ETSevere flooding struck central Michigan…
President Donald Trump announced two weeks ago that the annual commencement ceremonies at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point would proceed as normal and that he would speak in-person to this year’s 1,000 graduating class — much to the surprise of academy officials, who had been carefully planning how to restructure the milestone for…
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…