July 14, 2020 | 10:16pm Jeff Sessions was handily defeated by former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in Tuesday night’s Alabama Senate primary. With nearly 70 percent of the results in, Tuberville led the former attorney general by a staggering 24 percentage points. Sessions had been seeking to regain the US Senate seat he…
In fact, studies have found that Black Americans are up to 3.5 times as likely to be killed by law enforcement People gather at the unveiling of a memorial to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump has once again stoked racial grievances, telling an interviewer who asked a question…
Crew members of the Chinese Navy stand guard on the deck of Chinese PLA Navy ship on May 23, 2014.Soe Than Win | AFP | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The nation's top diplomat for East Asia said in remarks Tuesday that the Trump administration could use sanctions to target Chinese officials' actions in the hotly contested South…
Miami Herald senior editor for investigations and enterprise Casey Frank told "The Story" Tuesday that Ghislaine Maxwell's bail hearing may serve as a preview of her trial on charges that she recruited and trafficked minors for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."The attorneys for Ms. Maxwell pointed out that she should be indemnified by the [2007] non-prosecution agreement ... the…
Donald Trump, in an interview aired Tuesday, pivoted when asked a question about the police killing of George Floyd, a Black American, which has sparked major national protests, to point out that whi…
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…