Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency Monday following an uptick in shootings over the July Fourth weekend that injured 31 people and killed five after weeks of violent crime and property destruction in Atlanta.The move authorizes the activation of 1,000 National Guard troops to “protect state property and patrol our streets”."Peaceful protests were hijacked…
President Trump has been hammered for declaring during his Independence Day address that 99% of novel coronavirus cases are “totally harmless,” but what the administration can say is that the U.S. death rate continues to plummet. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany made the point that daily U.S. deaths from COVID-19 continue to drop, and…
The U.S. government’s foreign broadcasting services have suffered in recent years from a lack of leadership, and the Trump administration’s new broadcasting chief says he wants to fix the problem. Michael Pack, chief executive officer of the new U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), said more assertive news reporting, especially to China, is needed to…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday lauded President Trump for having the “guts” to call out the mobs that are destroying statues and spreading violence as anti-American. “The people who are destroying these statues are bad people. The people killing these young girls are bad people. And Trump had the guts to say it,”…
Amy Cooper, the woman who was caught on video accusing Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper, a Black man, of threatening her will be prosecuted, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Mond…
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…