Students in the Cobb County School District will go back to class two weeks later than planned. Cobb school board members Thursday pushed back the start date for the 2020-21 year to Aug. 17 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The original start date was Aug. 3. Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said the delay will give the…
People wearing masks walk past a "Real New Yorkers Can Handle It" sign near Union Square amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 16, 2020 in New York City.Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty ImagesFacebook announced Thursday it will start recommending that people wear face coverings when out in public as coronavirus cases spike in the United States.Both…
Sitting in his patrol car in Wilmington, N.C., Officer Michael “Kevin” Piner predicted Black Lives Matter protests would soon lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner told another officer, adding that he planned to buy an assault rifle.“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f------ n------,” he said.The shocking threat came…
This year's U.S. Open will take place at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, but fans won't be in the stands due to the coronavirus pandemic. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP hide caption toggle caption Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP This year's U.S. Open will take place at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in…
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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…