Associated Press Published 8:04 p.m. ET July 18, 2020 | Updated 7:51 a.m. ET July 19, 2020CLOSE A man was recorded throwing red paint onto the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on the street in front Trump Tower in New York City. WochitNEW YORK – A “Black Lives Matter” mural painted on the…
Two recent standoffs with China and Russia have offered a sobering view of the coming great power competition between the U.S. and its two biggest rivals and just how dangerous it may become. On June 27, U.S. fighter planes intercepted Russian jets that had pierced American air defense zones near Alaska for the 10th time…
With coronavirus cases rising across the country and the U.S. death toll topping 137,000, President Trump on Sunday dismissed concerns about the surge of infections, telling Fox News that “many of those cases shouldn’t even be cases.”“Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,” the president told Fox News host…
(CNN)The end is near for the $600 federal lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans -- even though the economy is still far from recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and new layoffs are being …
An Oklahoma pastor who has publicly called for slavery reparations plans to file criminal charges against racist protesters after claiming he was assaulted. Pastor Robert Turner of Tulsa’s Mount Vernon AME Church claims the assault occurred on the afternoon of July 15 outside Tulsa City Hall, reported Tulsa World. A video from the demonstration appeared…
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…