Black women—one of the Democratic party’s most influential voting blocs—are also seeing their numbers grow in Congress and state legislatures. According to data from the Center for American Women and Politics, 24 black women serve in the U.S. House of Representatives—an all-time high--and more than 300 in state legislatures. “I know that I’m standing on…
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…