House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn remembered his friend Rep. John Lewis on Sunday and said President Trump should take up legislation in honor of the Georgia Democrat, who died Friday. Mr. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat, said the president could sign the House Democrats’ legislation to reauthorize the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme…
PICTURED: Three members of Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club are killed and nine others are critically injured by drunk driver who slammed into their convoy in TexasThe three victims have been identified as 79-year-old Jerry Wayne Harbour from Houston, Michael White from Chicago and Joseph Paglia from ChicagoGroup was on a ride celebrating…
In another signal that the Democratic convention is still on track to be largely virtual because of the coronavirus, a top convention official told members of Congress on Thursday not to travel to Wisconsin next month for the already-scaled back gathering.In an email sent to congressional chiefs of staff and obtained by NBC News, senior…
Lauren Mitchell, Austin American-Statesman Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 26, 2020 | Updated 8:05 a.m. ET June 26, 2020CLOSE Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pausing the state's aggressive reopening as it deals with a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. The number of patients admitted with COVID-19 has more than doubled in just two weeks.…
BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member. Ron Barbosa's family has always been close. Members of the Dallas-area family see each other practically every day, and when the coronavirus pandemic struck, many of them thought it…
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…