Rep. John Lewis and marchers in 2009 retrace Lewis' footsteps from 1965 across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. | Kevin Glackmeyer/AP Photo Rep. Jim Clyburn called for the Edmund Pettus Bridge to be renamed for John Lewis, the late civil rights icon who was marching during “Bloody Sunday” when peaceful demonstrators were beaten there by Alabama…
Lewis was one of several peaceful protesters who suffered serious injuries on the bridge in 1965 during a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. The non-violent protesters were attacked by Alabama state troopers with tear gas and clubs on what later became known as "Bloody Sunday." Lewis suffered a skull fracture that day."Non-violence was…
President Trump renewed his fight against a New York state grand-jury subpoena for financial records, including tax returns, telling a federal court in New York on Wednesday he would raise additional objections to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into hush-money payments made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Last week, the Supreme Court rejected the…
Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is renewing a call to remove Confederate statutes from display in the US Capitol -- a move that comes amid a national outcry over police misconduct and raci…
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…