Ukrainian tennis star Dayana Yastremska is on the defensive.The 20-year-old issued a response Thursday night after being slammed for posting images of her in what many considered blackface.Yastremska, though, clearly did not think so.“Earlier today I posted pictures that I thought would spread a message of equality,” she posted to her various social media accounts after deleting…
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…
June 16, 2020 | 12:38pm The US Open tennis tournament will be held this summer in Queens — without fans in the stands — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday, a step back towards normalcy amid the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic. The US Tennis Association “is going to be taking extraordinary precautions” to keep players…
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…