A Bronx man at the center of New York City’s Black Lives Matter movement came after the Rev. Al Sharpton with both barrels over remarks the minister made last week about black-on-black violence amid a rash of shootings across the city. Hawk Newsome, the chairman of Black Lives Matter’s Greater New York chapter, said the…
PARIS — French investigators opened a probe into possible arson Saturday after a fire tore through parts of Nantes cathedral in northwestern France, bringing scenes reminiscent of last year's inferno that nearly destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.The blaze was brought under control and the damage at the Nantes cathedral was mostly concentrated around…
Federal prosecutors said electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Madigan. They say the company has admitted that from 2011 to 2019 it arranged for jobs and vendor subcontracts “for various associates of a high-level elected official for the state…
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…