July 18, 2020 | 1:00pm Flags surrounding the Washington Monument are lowered to half-staff following the death of Congressman John Lewis REUTERS/Tom Brenner Rep. John Lewis Getty Images Up Next The memo, issued Friday, outlines the city's new "unlawful methods... President Trump ordered flags on all federal buildings to be flown half-staff Saturday “as a…
A federal judge in Maryland on Friday ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era initiative that shields hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. The order by Judge Paul Grimm of the U.S. District Court in…
Gov. Gavin Newsom at a daily news briefing. | AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out new rules Friday that will require schools in counties with high rates of coronavirus infections to keep campuses closed until they can meet certain public health standards, the broadest move yet in the U.S. to…
The Trump administration must begin accepting new applications for the Obama-era program that shields undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, a federal judge ruled Fr…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered a halt to indoor activities at certain businesses statewide as cases of coronavirus surge in the country’s most populous state.Newsom, a Democrat, announced during a press briefing that all bars across the state must close up shop and that restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums and card…
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…