One lawmaker is fighting attempts to change the name of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial monument, after the U.S. Board on Geographic Names fielded at least one suggestion to do so.A California resident has proposed changing the name of the monument to “Igmu Tanka Paha,” which means “Cougar Mountain,” TribLIVE reported on Friday. It was a name…
WASHINGTON — With his support falling even among Republicans as the coronavirus makes a frightening resurgence across the country, President Trump used a weekend dedicated to patriotism to signal that he will spend the final four months of his re-election effort digging deeper into the nation’s racial and cultural divides, creating an enemy for his…
President Trump’s trip to Mount Rushmore ahead of Independence Day is designed to offer a blast of patriotic pageantry as he campaigns for re-election. But the firework festivities are shadowed by questions about social distancing and wildfire risks, as well as tensions with Native American leaders. An appearance before the famous granite-carved faces of four…
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…