Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has hit back at President Donald Trump, who branded him "very weak" as protests raged across the city.The president spoke of his desire to see "the city under control," talking of sending in in the National Guard and of looters being shot in early morning tweets. "I can't stand back &…
The mayor took the helm of the city after fatal police shootings hampered his predecessor.Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis spoke during a news conference on Thursday.Credit...Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune, via Associated PressMayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, a 38-year-old civil rights lawyer, swept into office in 2018 on promises to fix the broken relationship between the community…
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms condemned violent protests over the death of George Floyd that erupted in her city on Friday, saying in a fiery speech "this is not a protest ... this is chaos.""This is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. This…
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…