June 15, 2020 | 5:48pm The block bearing Bedford-Stuyvesant’s massive Black Lives Matter mural will become a pedestrian-only plaza for the duration of the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “Fulton Street in Brooklyn will share the message that #BlackLivesMatter all summer long,” Hizzoner posted on Twitter. “We’re making the block pedestrians-only and working with the…
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…