June 14, 2020 | 3:47pm | Updated June 14, 2020 | 4:02pm Disturbing new footage of George Floyd’s fatal encounter with Minneapolis police shows an officer ignoring onlookers’ pleas to intervene as now-fired cop Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck. “You’re going to let him kill that man in front of you?” one unidentified witness…
White supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement who are occupying an abandoned Seattle police precinct that has become known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) are being urged to give $10 to an African American.A video uploaded to social media shows an unidentified protester giving a speech inside what looks like a baseball…
Doctors working on a covid-19 patient at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, May 21, 2020.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)The U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic continues to be faltering, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Leaked CDC documents dated June 9 that were obtained and published by Yahoo…
WASHINGTON - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a debilitating lung condition, often develops as a result of decades of heavy smoking -- but that does not explain why almost a third of all cases occur among people who have never smoked. The authors of a new study say they now have an answer, and it's linked…
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…