GULFPORT, Miss. — Tempers flared and guns were drawn in a face off in the courthouse square over Black Lives Matter, ancestry and the fate of a 100-plus-year-old statue memorializing Confederate war dead that carries the inscription “Lest We Forget.” And yet this wasn’t a mob spontaneously tearing down statues linked to the Confederacy or…
The Slatest President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, July 3, 2020. SAUL LOEB/Getty Images At a time when many protesters around the country have been calling to tear down Confederate statues as well as other monuments that honor the country’s racist past, President…
(CNN)Protests in Madison, Wisconsin, over a man's arrest resulted in toppled statues and a statesenator in an ambulance. Devonere Johnson, a Black man, was arrested Tuesday after he was seen on vid…
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…