Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Floodwaters in central Michigan broke records early Wednesday and threatened to rise even higher after catastrophic dam failures forced about 10,000 people to evacuate as the region faces an additional hardship during the coronavirus pandemic.The National Weather Service (NWS) said the Tittabawassee River…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan over its decision to issue applications for mail-in absentee ballots to all voters ahead of November's presidential election, claiming the move was "done illegally" and will lead to voter fraud.Michigan Secretary…
It’s a startling sight for any visitor to two U.S. cemeteries supposedly reserved for the remains of those who served their country in uniform: Swastikas emblazoned on the tombstones of three World War II-era German POWs who died in captivity, complete with messages honoring Adolf Hitler. The campaign to remove the Nazi symbols from the…
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…