Image copyright AFP Image caption Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend Dozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.In many cases, they said it was despite showing clear…
April 30, 2020 | 11:24am | Updated April 30, 2020 | 1:32pm Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that dozens of bodies were being stored in unrefrigerated trucks outside a Brooklyn funeral home amid a surge in deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic. “This horrible situation that occurred with the…
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…