Joe Lockhart, a former NFL and Clinton White House spokesman, had a suggestion for addressing the violent rioting taking over the streets of Minneapolis: The Minnesota Vikings should sign Colin Kaepernick. Mr. Lockhart said in a CNN op-ed that the “situation in Minnesota right now offers a unique opportunity to deal with the symbols of…
Many professional and college athletes and coaches did not “stick to sports” over the weekend as demonstrations broke out around the country in reaction to the death of George Floyd and other black people at the hands of police. Dozens of figures from the sports world shared messages of anger and a desire for change,…
When tourists from Mexico, China and Britain became the first covid-19 fatalities in Cusco, Peru, it seemed as if the onetime capital of the Inca Empire might be headed for a significant outbreak.Nestled in a picturesque Andean valley, the high-altitude city of 420,000 residents, the gateway to the cloud forest citadel of Machu Picchu, receives…
The latest: There have been more than 1.7 million coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.The U.S. death toll has surpassed 103,000 people, according to Hopkins.President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the World Health Organization after criticizing the group's response to the coronavirus pandemic…
Lassen County in California was one of the first counties in the Golden State to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. But it will now close down. What’s going on: Dr. Kenneth Korver, the county’s public health officer, announced Tuesday that the county has seen four cases of COVID-19. The county — one of the first…
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…