Three people were arrested and a fourth was issued a summons after a Black Lives Matter mural on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower was vandalized with blue paint Friday afternoon, police said.The incident, which happened about 4:00 p.m., marks the second in a week that someone threw paint on the mural, which…
San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Friday the city has now been added to the state’s watch list because of rising hospitalizations for the coronavirus and implored residents to avoid gathering with others outside their households.“We have a small window of time now to get our cases under control,” she said during a virtual news…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that schools in the 32 counties on the state's "watch list" could not reopen in the fall unless they stay off the list for two straight weeks.Thirty-two of the state's 58 counties are on the watch list because of surging COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.The state's two largest school districts…
A drug kingpin from Iowa was executed on Friday afternoon, after he was convicted of murdering two young women and three adults, marking the third time this week that a federal inmate has been put to death after a 17-year capital punishment hiatus.The Bureau of Prisons said Dustin Honken, 52, was pronounced dead at 4:36 p.m. The victims’ family is…
Politics|Pentagon Sidesteps Trump to Ban the Confederate FlagThe defense secretary lists the types of flags that are allowed to appear on bases worldwide. That flag does not fit.Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper’s memo goes after the many American soldiers, Marines and airmen who display Confederate flags and other symbols in their barracks and in parking lots…
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…