The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday began drafting their own set of plans to stop racial injustice in police departments. The conferences’ Police Reform and Racial Justice Working Group will be led by mayors of Chicago, Tampa, Florida, and Cincinnati and the police chiefs of Baltimore, Phoenix and Columbia, South Carolina, the group announced.…
(CNN)New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter was arrested during protests Saturday night, according to police sources. Chiara de Blasio was arrested for unlawful assembly and was later release…
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter (D) Saturday evening walked back his comments from earlier in the day claiming that “every single person” who was arrested Friday night from protests over the killing of George Floyd was from out-of-state.Carter said in a joint press conference with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) and state Gov. Tim WalzTimothy (Tim) James Walz50…
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…