The United States is pushing back against stepped-up Chinese military activities near Taiwan and in the South China Sea as a means of deterring a conflict with Beijing, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. China in recent days has conducted large-scale military exercises and provocative jet flights near Taiwan in what China’s state media say…
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…
Disturbing videos have emerged purportedly showing a car driving into two protesters following a demonstration Monday night in Indiana, leaving them clinging onto its hood as it raced down a street.The crowd had gathered in Bloomington to call for arrests in connection to the alleged attempted lynching of one of the city’s Black residents on Fourth of July at nearby Lake Monroe, according to WRTV. The hit-and-run incident reportedly happened in…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent data with demographic, shows 30% of coronavirus patients are black, however 75% of the cases were missing any racial information whatsoever. However, many states have still not released demographic data on fatalities and those that have are missing racial information on about 25% cases. The U.S.…
COVD-19 has infected a disproportionate amount of black people all over the country. Originally, the Trump administration promised to get official national numbers out in “two to three days.” But that timeline has shifted since. We know why the novel coronavirus is hitting the black community harder: decades of existing health disparities have caused black…
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…