May 25, 2020 | 9:41pm A lawyer representing the family of the University of Connecticut senior wanted in two murders said Monday that the suspect has a history of mental illness and urged him to surrender. “If you are listening, your entire family loves you,” attorney Michael Dolan said Monday, addressing 23-year-old suspect Peter Manfredonia,…
Emails show local officials received conflicting signals from state leaders and meatpacking companies about how much information to release about outbreaks in plants.Smithfield’s plant in Tar Heel, N.C., is one of the largest pork processing plants in the world.Credit...Jeremy M. Lange for The New York TimesThe Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, N.C., is one…
About 35 years ago I was sitting at lunch next to Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who became a foreign-policy adviser to President Reagan and later U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was lamenting what she called the “liberal leaning” media. As the president of CBS News, I assured her it was only a…
Memorial Day, observed the last Monday in May, honors the men and women who died in service to their country.The day traces its roots to the period after the Civil War when the head of an organization of Union veterans established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to mark the graves of the…
(CNN)Frustrated with your child's picky eating? If you're trying to fix the problem by becoming the food police, you're probably making your child's habit of picky eating worse, according to a new st…
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…