Moton watched that day, March 7, 1965, known as “Bloody Sunday,” as Alabama state troopers fired tear gas and bludgeoned marchers and John Lewis, knocking him unconscious.That day galvanized her into a lifetime of activism and compelled the septuagenarian to travel back from Rock Hill, South Carolina, to watch Lewis’ coffin cross the Edmund Pettus…
Former Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner offered a not-so-appetizing analogy when asked about voting for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Turner, who was a prominent surrogate for Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., during the 2020 Democratic primary, expressed her lack of excitement for the former VP to The Atlantic.“It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl…
North Korea last year threatened to shock the world with an unpleasant “Christmas gift” after nuclear talks broke down with the Trump administration over the North’s covert nuclear programs. Although the Christmas season came and went without a long-range missile test or fresh nuclear detonation by Pyongyang, national security sources worry that the Christmas gift…
A coronavirus mask mandate snared a migrant smuggler in Texas this month after he was forced to leave one of his mask-less victims in a car while he went into a store for cigarettes, giving the man a chance to signal for help. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say the accused smuggler had been holding…
(CNN)A house party in New Jersey was so packed with partygoers openly flouting the state's Covid-19 crowd guidelines this weekend that it took police officers over 5 hours to break it up. The bust o…
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…