Seven missing Marines and one sailor are feared dead after a training accident with an amphibious assault vehicle off the coast of Southern California.
July 02, 2020 124 days to Nov 03, 2020 Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images. 1. The white-collar realignment It’s complete.One way to look at the outcome of the 2016 election was how differing rates of change in the nascent national political realignment secured the election for Trump. Working-class white Americans—the ancestral…
Police said there was evidence of multiple shooters but no one was in custody as of Monday morning [File: Brandon Bell/Getty Images] Two people have been killed and seven others wounded in a shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city, police have said. Five others were hit by vehicles after the shooting that happened around midnight…
UPDATE (3:24 p.m.) - San Luis Obispo County health officials updated their daily COVID-19 case count on Friday, downgrading the daily total to seven cases and 324 confirmed cases overall.Thirty-five people are recovering at home. ___(1:56 p.m.) - San Luis Obispo County reported eight new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the county's total to…
More than seven million people have been infected with coronavirus across the world - and two in every three cases are in Europe and the US. At least 7,003,851 cases have been officially recorded, alongside a staggering 402,867 deaths.Europe has had the largest number of infections at 2,275,305, and has suffered 183,542 deaths. The US has recorded…
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…