The New York Police Department marked a 25-year high in gun busts last week as violent crime continues to plague the city, officials said Tuesday.Commissioner Dermot Shea, the NYPD's top cop, said 160 gun arrests were made between Aug. 31 and Sunday.“We hit a 25-year high in gun arrests last week, the most gun arrests we’ve…
President Donald Trump was visibly distressed this weekend over the fallout that ensued from the story published in The Atlantic alleging that he privately disparaged the war dead.
Extreme weather is battering the Western United States, with fires raging along the Pacific Coast and snow falling in Colorado.Right NowHelicopter flights by the California National Guard brought at least 78 people to safety on Tuesday as a fire burned in the Sierra National Forest.VideoWildfires wreaked havoc in states including California, Washington, Colorado and Oregon…
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…