Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Published 8:16 a.m. ET July 9, 2020 CLOSE A former football player caught a 3-year-old boy thrown from a burning third-floor apartment balcony in Phoenix. StoryfulPhillip Blanks caught countless passes in his career as a wide receiver. None could have been as great as his diving grab last week.As a…
Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman testified Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr pressured him to step down from his post and, instead, accept a position in the Justice Department's Civil Division, before his firing last month.Berman arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday before noon and testified behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee as…
As a teenager a decade ago at Kalamazoo Central High School in Michigan, Phillip Blanks was a star football player. Last week, his athletic instincts helped save a toddler from an apartment fire that killed the child’s mother.Blanks, now 28 and a retired U.S. Marine, was at a friend’s apartment in Phoenix on Friday morning…
Former “Glee” actress Naya Rivera is missing and presumed dead after her 4-year-old son was found alone on a boat on a lake north of Los Angeles, according to multiple reports.Rivera rented the boat at Lake Piru in Ventura County at around 1 p.m. Her son was found safe by another boater three hours later,…
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…