President Trump said Saturday he told officials to “slow down” testing to lower the number of newly reported coronavirus cases in the country. While his team initially claimed that the statement was a joke, Trump contradicted that claim Tuesday, saying, “I don’t kid.” But top public health experts testifying before Congress on Tuesday denied having…
(CNN)Protests in Madison, Wisconsin, over a man's arrest resulted in toppled statues and a statesenator in an ambulance. Devonere Johnson, a Black man, was arrested Tuesday after he was seen on vid…
Crews make preparations for removal of the statue of former U.S. Vice President and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun early Wednesday in Charleston, S.C. Meg Kinnard/AP hide caption toggle caption Meg Kinnard/AP Crews make preparations for removal of the statue of former U.S. Vice President and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun early Wednesday in Charleston,…
Senate Democrats have signaled they will block a Republican police reform bill that critics say offers a “woefully inadequate response” to racial disparities in American policing practices. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and fellow Democratic senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, sent a letter to the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday urging him…
CLOSE With only one polling place designated Tuesday for Louisville, a city of 600,000 people, voters who didn't cast mail-in ballots or show up early faced long lines in Kentucky's primary. (June 23) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – Once again, coronavirus proved that elections during a pandemic are not business as usual.Over the past several months, voters…
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…