Former Ohio State football captain Dionte Johnson said Saturday his shoe and apparel store in Ohio was looted and damaged during the George Floyd protests in the state.Video that surfaced on social media Friday night showed several people robbing and damaging Sole Classics, located in Columbus. The former fullback wrote on Instagram that he’s received…
A key Chinese state-media outlet is calling the violent protests occurring in several U.S. cities “retribution” for Washington’s support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. A column published over the weekend by Global Times, a newspaper known as a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, also suggested Beijing would be justified if it openly backed the protests…
Illinois has met all of the White House's criteria required to reopen for business, the only state in the U.S. to achieve that goal. Illinois will enter Phase 3 of its reopening plan on Friday.Data from ProPublica shows that Illinois has hit the five main guidelines issued by the White House in order to safely…
Healthcare workers from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment check in with people waiting to be tested for COVID-19 at the state's first drive-up testing center. | Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Federal and state officials across the country have altered or hidden public health data crucial to tracking the coronavirus' spread, hindering the ability…
The FBI has joined the massive manhunt, which is now spanning three states, for a University of Connecticut student believed to be armed with several stolen guns whom police say is connected to two homicides, a kidnapping and a home invasion. Peter Manfredonia, 23, last seen in Stroudsburg, Pa., is considered armed and dangerous and should not…
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…