House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced that the House of Representatives will hold a moment of silence in honor of the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who died on Friday.Pelosi, D-Calif., in a "Dear Colleague" letter, also announced that the Georgia House delegation will be introducing a "bereavement resolution" for Lewis, whose…
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…