Show captionPeople gather to pay respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg in front of the supreme court in Washington. Photograph: REX/ShutterstockRuth Bader GinsburgOn a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.”It was a…
On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush…
Image copyright AFP Image caption The funeral home was targeted by the occupants of a passing car At least 14 people have been shot outside a funeral home in Chicago - one of the worst mass shootings in a city already grappling with rising violence.Mourners were shot at by the occupants of a passing vehicle…
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Hundreds of mourners said their last goodbyes to George Floyd -- whose death sparked national outrage after he died in police custody after an office kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes -- on Tuesday in a packed memorial service in Houston.Floyd, 46, is set to be laid to rest next to his mother in 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…