Retired four-star general and Secretary of State Colin Powell will be voting for former Vice President Joe Biden, saying they are close on social and political issues. “I will be speaking for him but I don’t plan to make campaign trips,” he told CNN. Mr. Powell, who served under Republican Presidents George W. Bush, George…
Nancy Armour, USA TODAY Published 2:39 p.m. ET May 29, 2020 | Updated 4:14 p.m. ET May 29, 2020CLOSE SportsPulse: Athletes took to social media to voice their anger over George Floyd's death, with many resurfacing photos of Colin Kaepernick's protest over criminal and social injustice. USA TODAY Sports' Nancy Armour reiterates Kaepernick's protest was…
Colin Kaepernick reacted to the death of George Floyd, and the violent protests that came in the days after, on social media Thursday.It was the first comments Kaepernick made since Floyd died in an officer-involved incident in Minneapolis on Monday. Video released from the arrest showed an officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck while he screamed…
The NFL came under fire Friday after listing former San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick as “retired” on the league’s official website.The former quarterback's girlfriend Nessa Diab took to Twitter to slam the league for “lying” and “claiming [Kapernick] retired.”COLIN KAEPERNICK DONATES $100G TO CORONAVIRUS FUND FOR ‘DISPROPORTIONATELY DEVASTATED’ MINORITY GROUPS “Colin did NOT retire. You cowards blackballed…
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…