Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said Sunday the Trump administration is breaking the law by having federal agents in his city detaining protesters. “Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism,” the Democratic mayor told CNN’s State of the Union. “We want them to leave.” Protesters are being pulled into unmarked vans,…
Reps. Karen Bass and Val Demings appeared on ABC's "This Week."July 19, 2020, 1:54 PM8 min read To honor the life and legacy of death of death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that the Voting Rights Advancement Act should be passed. "I know…
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…