A large protest in Portland, Oregon Sunday night started peacefully but intensified early Monday, leading to the use of tear gas by federal agents, following a recent pattern. Demonstrators have been raising their voices against police brutality and for racial justice. Earlier, a bag containing loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails was found at a…
More than two dozen lifeguards on Long Beach Island tested positive for the coronavirus after attending social gatherings outside of work, healths officials said on Friday.“The health department started receiving reports of COVID-19 activity among Surf City lifeguards on Saturday, July 18 and Harvey Cedars lifeguards on Sunday, July 19,” Daniel J. Krupinski, the Long…
July 27, 2020 | 9:13am | Updated July 27, 2020 | 10:20am President Trump is hitting back at former President Ronald Reagan’s presidential foundation for asking his campaign and the Republican National Committee to stop using his likeness for fundraising. In a tweet posted Sunday afternoon, the commander-in-chief called out Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption In Apodaca, the fire service had to tow an ambulance which got stuck in the floods Streets in Monterrey in northern Mexico were flooded by heavy rains from tropical depression Hanna on Sunday. The US National Hurricane Center has warned that continued rains could trigger flash flooding and mudslides in…
Republican lawmakers are set to reveal their stimulus package this week. Here's a sneak peek at what it might entail. For the past week, lawmakers have gathered to discuss a matter of extreme importance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent recession it's spurred: a second relief package. In March, the CARES Act…
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…