Before his death beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, George Floyd was suffering the same fate as millions of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: out of work and looking for a new job. Floyd moved to Minneapolis from his native Houston several years ago in hopes of finding work and starting a new life, said…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The father of a man captured on video beating up a Detroit nursing home resident has claimed that his son has a history of mental illness, and that he shouldn't have been in the facility following a coronavirus diagnosis.The shocking video surfaced…
Associated Press Published 7:49 a.m. ET May 22, 2020 | Updated 10:07 a.m. ET May 22, 2020AMITYVILLE, N.Y. — A Long Island man was stabbed to death by his adult son Thursday while on a Zoom video chat, police said, leading to 911 calls from people who watched the horror unfold on their screens.Thomas Scully-Powers,…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – A white father and son accused of fatally shooting a black man on a residential Georgia street were arrested Thursday and charged with murder and aggravated assault after a national outcry that no arrests had been made, authorities said.Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, will be booked into the Glynn…
April 30, 2020 | 12:08am A frontline coronavirus worker in Florida and his parents, who were about to celebrate their 50th anniversary, all died of the disease within weeks of each other, reports said. Mario Mayorga Jr. — who worked for a service that cleaned Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami — was diagnosed with…
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…