Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome joined "The Story" Wednesday to discuss the direction of the movement in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody and the subsequent demonstrations across the country, many of which have sparked destruction and violence."You ... have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations," host Martha…
Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of the country’s largest Republican-controlled state, is facing increasing pressure over his decision to open the economy.Gov. Greg Abbott addresses a news conference at the State Capitol in Austin about the coronavirus pandemic Monday.Credit...Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated PressJune 24, 2020Updated 8:57 p.m. ETHOUSTON — The coronavirus has been…
Former Vice President Joe Biden will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at a nearly all-virtual convention in Milwaukee in August, but delegates were told to stay home because of health concerns, the Democratic National Committee said Wednesday."After consulting with public health officials about the COVID-19 pandemic, convention organizers are announcing today that they have determined…
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton told CNN Wednesday that he does not have confidence in President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his former boss was "…
An explosion of the novel coronavirus in Houston has put the nation's third-largest city at the epicenter of the nation's public health crisis as hospitals fill and officials warn of impending catastrophe.Harris County officials reported a shocking 1,994 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday alone, a new record. The county has reported more than 1,000 new…
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…