A Black Lives Matter Chicago organizer said Monday that the mobs who vandalized and looted downtown businesses the night before did nothing wrong, calling it “reparations” for Black suffering. “That is reparations,” Ariel Atkins, an organizer, told NBC Chicago. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.” Black Lives…
A former CNN executive said the network’s ratings boom during the Trump administration is in direct relation to its constant coverage of the newsmaking president. In an interview with Digiday, an online trade magazine, several former news executives worried that a Joseph R. Biden presidency could present a ratings and identity crisis for networks that…
The country’s regulators became the first in the world to approve a possible vaccine against the virus, despite warnings from the global authorities against cutting corners.In this video screen grab made available by Moscow’s Sechenov Medical University, a volunteer is receiving the vaccine as part of clinical trials.Credit...Sechenov Medical University Press Office, via Getty ImagesAug.…
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…