The seat of the late Rep. John Lewis has drawn the interest of more than 100 potential successors. The Democratic Party of Georgia completed Sunday night the first phase of replacing Mr. Lewis’s name on the November ballot — he already had won the Democratic primary, but state law allows a party to replace a…
A Department of Interior decision to allow tribal-owned corporations in Alaska to receive stimulus funding intended for tribes has exposed a rift in Native American communities and led to resignation calls for Interior’s head of Indian affairs.Congress set aside $8 billion in the coronavirus stimulus package for tribal governments, but a form to apply for…
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…