Several groups of right-wing militias descended on Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania on July 4 after conspiracy theory websites spread a quickly debunked rumor that antifa was going to burn American flags at the Civil War battlefield. The antifa flag-burning event started on Facebook, and the listing was eventuallyremoved, but not before getting the attention…
July 5, 2020 | 4:56pm Enlarge Image Members of a militia walk past a tourist as they patrol the area surrounding the Gettysburg National Cemetery at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. AP Armed militias descended on Gettysburg on July 4 to protect the town from a flag-burning protest — that wound up being…
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…