By: Julia Hollingsworth, Jason Kwok, Natalie Leung and Swati Gupta Updated 11:21 PM ET, Sat July 18, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. …
In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, changing just 269 votes in Florida from George W. Bush to Al Gore would have changed the outcome of the entire national election. Similarly narrow results have happened in nearly one-third of the country's presidential elections – and five winners of the nationwide popular vote did not become president,…
A New York City police officer was injured Saturday while arresting vandals who were smearing paint on a “Black Lives Matter” street mural outside Trump Tower.Two women were arrested after police said they dumped cans of black paint on the block-long mural on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.It marked the third such act of vandalism targeting the street…
President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, challenged his critics on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, threatened a veto for the defense bill, and speculated on whether he will accept the results if his Democratic challenger wins the presidency in November.Trump, in a contentious sitdown that aired Sunday, told "Fox News Sunday"…
President Donald Trump has decried the demonstrations, and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf blasted the protesters as “lawless anarchists” in a visit to the city on Thursday. “We are trying to help Portland, not hurt it,” Trump tweeted Sunday morning. “Their leadership has, for months, lost control of the anarchists and agitators. They are missing…
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…