Private security guards hired to keep people out of a city-owned park in Seattle during off hours, left during their first shift after they were verbally harassed.Cal Anderson Park has been closed since June 30 and was cleared Tuesday so the city could make repairs to a field house damaged in the protests. During a search of several tents, officers and park…
The court drew its decision narrowly when ruling against a Montana tax break that excluded religious schools. But denominational school advocates will push a broad application.Olivia Carson and her mother, Amy Carson, in 2018, when Olivia was a sophomore at a private Christian school in Bangor, Maine.Credit...Gabor Degre/The Bangor Daily News, via Associated PressJuly 1,…
As cities brace for a seventh day of protests and possible violence, President Trump berates governors and demands a much harsher response.Right NowNew York City, roiled by protests, will impose a curfew, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday.ImageProtesters were detained by the police in Minneapolis on Sunday.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesA week…
NEW, THE DATA ITSELF IS OLD. ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, A PRIVATE LABORATORY SUBMITTED A MONTH WORTH OF DATA. THE LAB GIVE THEM THIS DATA THIS WEEKEND. THAT CAUSED A SPIKE IN THE REPORTED NEW CASES IN GREENVILLE COUNTY. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHY THIS HAPPENED. I CALLED DHEC TO…
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…