Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones is a Black man born and raised in the South, but he said he had never confronted anything like the angry horde that descended on him last week as he left the Republican National Convention. As he and a female companion tried to walk two blocks from the White House…
Inside the home of the famed Dodger Dog, Pedro Albarran watched with alarm as his colleagues stood at the meatpacking line shoulder-to-shoulder, unmasked, amid the coronavirus pandemic. People started coughing. Then, one by one, they disappeared from their places in the line. Sure enough, the virus was circulating at the Farmer John plant in the…
Democratic Georgia lawmaker Rep. Vernon Jones, who endorsed President Trump for reelection last month, said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday that “I put my country before my party and I wish more people would do that.” Two days before, Jones, D-Lithonia, tweeted, “As a lifelong Democrat and black man, it pains me to admit this. But…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.I am a cancer survivor. About 35 years ago, the doctors removed a five-pound tumor from my heart and lungs. I had 18 surgeries and underwent 18 months of chemotherapy.I lost count of the days I spent isolated in a…
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…