Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday decried the “lawless, evil” shooting that led to the death of a federal judge's son and injury of her husband, and said he’d ordered an FBI investigation.“On behalf of the entire Justice Department, I send my deepest condolences to Judge (Esther) Salas and her family on the death of their son…
Chicago Tribune | Jul 20, 2020 at 4:04 PM The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities. The Homeland Security Investigations, or…
CLOSE US top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says a growing coronavirus surge means "the time has come to take a look at what's going on and see if we can intensify the things we do to prevent the resurgences that we're seeing." (July 17) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans may offer another round of…
July 20, 2020 | 2:23pm | Updated July 20, 2020 | 4:15pm Gov. Andrew Cuomo went down to Georgia Monday to advise local officials there on how to curb the coronavirus pandemic — but critics said the trip was nothing more than an ill-conceived public relations stunt given all the deaths that New York suffered.…
PORTLAND (Reuters) - As a U.S. Navy veteran, Chris David said he thought he would be able to talk plainly with federal agents in Portland and ask them why they were using unmarked cars to snatch people off the street during recent protests in the Oregon city. Demonstrators return to protest against racial inequality in…
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…