Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick voiced his frustration on Wednesday over a grand jury’s decision to indict one of three police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor with criminal charges."The white supremacist institution of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life from us must be abolished for the safety and well being of our…
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is slamming the NFL’s new embrace of social justice activism four years after he started the national anthem protests that seemingly got him blackballed from the league. Mr. Kaepernick criticized the NFL’s new messaging as “propaganda,” citing the fact that his former teammate and fellow activist Eric Reid…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is set to be featured in a video touting Joseph R. Biden on the second night of the modified Democratic National Convention. “Our country needs a commander-in-chief who takes care of our troops in the same way he would his own family,” Mr. Powell said. “For Joe Biden, that…
The Navy SEAL Museum, just outside Fort Pierce, Fla., used a Colin Kaepernick jersey as a prop in a K-9 demonstration at a fundraiser last year, video shows.The U.S. Navy SEALS -- separate from the museum -- issued a statement Sunday regarding the situation after the video surfaced online. The video had more than 2 million views at…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell indicated on Thursday that media figures overreacted to a recent report that Russian officials placed bounties on the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan."What I know is that our military commanders on the ground did not think that it was as serious a problem as the newspapers were reporting and television was reporting," Powell told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. "It got…
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…