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(CNN)State Sen. Nikema Williams has been chosen to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November, paving the way for the first black woman elected to lead the Georgia Democratic Party to…
The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree. John Yoo told Axios he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue…
CLOSE A group of women formed a human wall around protesters in Portland, Oregon, chanting: "Moms are here. Feds stay clear." StoryfulWeeks of protests and the presence of federal authorities in Portland have brought the Oregon city into the national spotlight as tensions rise amid call for racial justice and changes to policing.The city has seen…
D.C.’s heat index never fell below 90 degrees on Sunday night The National Weather Service’s forecast for high temperatures across the Lower 48 on Monday. (Pivotal Weather) Andrew FreedmanEditor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. July 20 at 10:16 AM The East Coast is bracing for excessive heat to kick off…
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…