Nearly three of nine minutes, Floyd was non-responsive, court documents state. May 29, 2020, 10:42 PM7 min read Derek Chauvin, the police officer charged with third-degree murder in connection with the death of George Floyd, had his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes -- including almost three minutes while Floyd was unresponsive --…
After he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2017, Jacob Frey pledged "to mend wounds" in a city that's struggled with police brutality for years.Now his city is being rocked by protests and rioting following the death of George Floyd during an arrest Monday by a Minneapolis police officer, and President Donald Trump is blasting…
President Trump said Saturday the death of George Floyd filled Americans with “horror, anger and grief,” but that he cannot tolerate mob violence and will “stop it cold” before more businesses or police precincts are destroyed. “We won’t let it happen. It harms those who have the least,” Mr. Trump said in Florida after the…
After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human spaceflight in the United States. The flight marked the first time astronauts have launched into orbit from American soil in nearly a decade, and SpaceX is now the first…
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…