Section of Donald Trump's 'indestructible' border wall COLLAPSES as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south TexasA video that went viral on Twitter on Sunday shows a section of the border wall toppling to the ground amid fierce wind and rainThe clip became the target of widespread ridicule as critics likened the collapse to President Donald Trump's…
With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak.Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Day weekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, during the 2018 campaign, drew criticism from civil rights organizations for running a TV ad embracing a relatively new law protecting Confederate monuments and chastising “out-of-state-liberals” for instructing Alabamians on what it should do with the historical structures.Two years later, its in-state Democratic and Republican mayors, county commissioners and city officials…
The first tragedy of America's bleak coronavirus milestone is that 100,000 people didn't have to die. The second is that no one knows how many more will perish before the pandemic fades.
A New York police officer has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty after shocking video emerged showing him beating up a man over an alleged social distancing violation. On Saturday, several plainclothes NYPD cops broke up a group of people ignoring social distancing orders and dragged a man to the…
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…