Jean Kennedy Smith, a former ambassador to Ireland and champion of artists with disabilities who was the last surviving sibling of President Kennedy, has died, her nephew confirmed to the Associated Press. She was 92.Smith died Wednesday at her Manhattan home, her daughter Kym told The New York Times.As the eighth of nine children of…

Image caption An image passed to the BBC by an Indian military official shows crude weapons purportedly used in the fight An image has emerged showing a crude weapon purportedly used by Chinese forces in the fatal brawl along China's disputed border with India on Monday.The fight in the Galwan Valley left at least 20…

The owners of a Georgia McDonald’s responded after a sheriff’s deputy posted a now-viral video to Facebook worrying that employees were tampering with her food, based on the allegedly long wait time for her meal. The restaurant owners have since claimed that the officer was never denied service, and have since apologized to the customer for…

Hundreds of protesters chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” were seen on video rallying outside Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment late Wednesday night after city commissioners voted to slash nearly $16 million from the police department’s budget.The cuts to the police’s $245 million overall budget were passed by a 3-1 vote, although some protesters had been urging city officials to reduce the department’s spending package for the…

A new study has found that emergency measures introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to have prevented more than 500 million additional infections.Share on PinterestResearchers have concluded that strict emergency measures have been effective in preventing millions of new infections during the pandemic.New research on six countries has found that introducing emergency…