One tornado-producing storm traveled a staggering 350 miles killing at least six people. A seventh person was killed as storms moved from Texas into Louisiana. The severe storms continued to barrel east Thursday, with tornado warnings issued in Alabama during the morning hours. Tornado watches were up for parts of southern Alabama, southeast Mississippi and…
Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones offered some financial advice for those college stars who are about to enter the NFL through the draft on Thursday.Jones, who recently signed a five-year, $82 million deal to join the Dolphins in the offseason, sent a series of tweets detailing what the future rookies should do with their money…
Quarantine Routine is a regular feature that asks political power brokers and public figures how their daily lives have changed -- and how they're still doing their jobs -- during the coronavirus crisis. During an interview with Fox News on Thursday, evangelist Dr. Alveda King, the niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said despite the stress…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.President Trump and public health officials argued on Thursday that higher temperatures and humidity, as well as direct exposure to sunlight, quickly kills the coronavirus, leading to hopes that the threat of the contagion could drastically recede during the summer…
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s history-making pledge to tap a woman as his running mate isn’t enough for women of color who are demanding the presumed Democratic presidential nominee’s pick comes from their community. Mr. Biden has refused to make that commitment and said this week that he plans to set up a vetting…
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…