Andrew Duncomb, a Black conservative journalist, said he was stabbed during a recent protest in Portland after word leaked out that he was going to be there and he confronted a person he said was stalking him, a report said.“I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist," Duncomb, who goes by 'Black Rebel' on Twitter, told the Oregonian newspaper.Portland…
NEW YORK — Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is awaiting trial in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse scandal, asked a federal judge Wednesday to block the planned unsealing of depositions she gave as part of a lawsuit, alleging the transcripts were leaked illegally to prosecutors seeking her conviction.The accusation came as hundreds of…
When the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified via video before a House subcommittee Wednesday, hostile lawmakers demanded they explain their dominant market positions, monopoly power, and business practices that harm consumers, competitors and small businesses.The hearing became a bipartisan beat-down that left the heads of the world’s biggest tech companies bloodied but…
(CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said the Republican Party seems to have "a disdain" for working people in a searing assessment of the stalled negotiations for a sweeping stimulus deal. …
A case of mistaken identity has caused the owners of a Michigan bed and breakfast to remove a Norwegian flag from the front of the inn after dozens of people confused the flag with a Confederate flag, a report said. When Greg and Kjersten Offbecker moved into the historic mansion in St. Johns years ago…
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…