Visitors gather at the growing memorial and tributes to John Lewis, on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA Georgia Democrats have announced a list of five finalists to replace John Lewis on the ballot for November’s congressional elections. The civil rights leader, who had represented the fifth district since 1987, died on…
The seat of the late Rep. John Lewis has drawn the interest of more than 100 potential successors. The Democratic Party of Georgia completed Sunday night the first phase of replacing Mr. Lewis’s name on the November ballot — he already had won the Democratic primary, but state law allows a party to replace a…
Protesters seen near the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Federal law enforcement agencies attempt to intervene as protests continue in Portland.Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesHouse Democrats on Sunday called for an immediate investigation into reports that federal law enforcement agents have unlawfully arrested protestors in…
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…