Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms compared the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in February to lynchings in the Jim Crow-era South and said that President Trump’s rhetoric give racists “permission to do it in an overt way.”Bottoms’ comments, made during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” come just days after a white…
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala erupted over pictures of younger individuals who were not following social distancing measures on Friday.He focused on economic issues stemming from the coronavirus lockdown measures, saying "a handful of crazy people" were jeopardizing the recovery of the economy by ignoring rules in place to curb the spread of the virus, The…
MILAN (AP) — The mayor of Milan — the first Western metropolis to shut down because of the coronavirus —reacted furiously Friday to images of young people ignoring social distancing rules as they gathered in a trendy neighborhood for the typical aperitivo.Mayor Giuseppe Sala warned that ’’a handful of crazy people” were putting the city’s…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A conservative law firm is calling a new order in Kansas City, Missouri, "Nazi-like" for requiring churches to "surveil, track, and spy" on anyone who attends an in-person service.Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas issued the 10/10/10 rule in effect May 5, ordering that nonessential businesses, like…
San Antonio, Bexar County officials provide latest update in nightly coronavirus briefingSAN ANTONIO – San Antonio and Bexar County officials reported 39 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total coronavirus case count to 1,652. The city’s death toll remained steady at 48.Thirty-four of those new cases were reported in the Bexar County Jail, while…
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…