Police advance on protesters to clear a street on the 100th consecutive night of protests against police violence and racial inequality, in Portland, Oregon, U.S. September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria(Reuters) - Protesters in Portland threw fire bombs at police on Saturday night and at least one person was injured, police said, on the 100th day…
Wearing a green gown and speaking from his hospital bed, Jacob Blake delivered a message to his supporters Saturday night, warning them that everything can change in an instant.
More than 60 people trapped by a fast-spreading wildfire near Central California’s Mammoth Pool Reservoir in the Sierra National Forest had been rescued by the Air National Guard as of late Saturday, fire officials confirmed.Those rescued by helicopter included two people with severe injuries and 10 with minor injuries, the Fresno County Fire Protection District said in a Twitter…
Portland reached its 100th night of anti-racism protests on Saturday with spat of Molotov cocktails that lit on person on fire and the home of Pittsburgh's mayor was surrounded by residents demanding the police be defunded as a swath of demonstrations sparked across the country.Labor Day weekend kicked-off with Black Lives Matter demonstrations taking place…
Image copyright We The People/ GoFundMe Image caption Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police New York's attorney general has said a grand jury will be formed to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, an unarmed black man who suffocated after being restrained by police.Mr Prude - who suffered from mental…
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…