Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with supporters during a campaign event at Wofford University February 28, 2020 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.Sean Rayford | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday defended his record of helping African Americans and advancing civil rights and voting rights, before ending an interview…
Before (June 3, 2019) and after Edenville dam collapse (May 20, 2020) near Midland, Mich. (NASA) Torrential rains early this week proved too much for two major dams upstream of Midland, Michigan, a city of 40,000 people, to handle. On Tuesday, the Edenville dam collapsed while the downstream Sanford dam was overwhelmed, unleashing a gushing,…
(CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned China's proposed national security law for Hong Kong, warning that the passage of the legislation would be a "death knell" for Hong Kong's autonomy. "An…
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…