The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt from outside its main entrance. The move, announced on Sunday, follows incidents a…
A Black man from Arizona and four other people filed a joint racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines after the man was removed from a flight.The four other passengers who joined the suit defended the man, Elgin Banks, when a white flight attendant told him to gather his belongings and leave after he tried to…
U.S. citizen Paul Whelan attends a sentencing hearing on Monday at the Moscow City Court on charges of espionage against Russia. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS via Getty Images U.S. citizen Paul Whelan attends a sentencing hearing on Monday at the Moscow City Court on charges of espionage against…
The Atlanta-based American Cancer Society will lay off 1,000 employees nationwide because of effects of the coronavirus on fundraising. The nonprofit did not say how many of those jobs are in Atlanta but that its fundraising has been hurt by the spread of COVID-19, according to a statement released Wednesday to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The…
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…