Attorney General William P. Barr late Friday stunned the legal world by abruptly announcing that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, is “stepping down.” But Mr. Berman quickly fired back that he has no intention of resigning and now Congress wants to investigate the matter. 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…