June 10, 2020 | 11:01pm Protesters in Virginia beheaded four Confederate statues and pulled down another with a tow rope on Wednesday night. Photos and videos posted on Twitter showed a demonstrator taking a sledgehammer to the head of one of the statues on the Portsmouth Confederate monument, which was built in the late 1800s…
U.S.|‘Take Back Your City’ From Protesters, Trump Tells Seattle MayorThe president tweeted that Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee were being taunted by protesters. Some demonstrators have used barricades to occupy several city blocks.Demonstrators pushed barricades in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle on Wednesday.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesJune 11, 2020Updated 1:15 a.m. ETSEATTLE…
A group of protesters led by city council member occupied Seattle City Hall to call for the resignation of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and the defunding of Seattle police.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNewsNBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and…
A group of protesters led by city council member occupied Seattle City Hall to call for the resignation of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and the defunding of Seattle police.» Subscribe to NBC News: http…
Hundreds of protesters, aided by a sympathetic City Council member, stormed Seattle's City Hall Tuesday night to demand the mayor's resignation, just days after seizing a six-block downtown zone that includes a shuttered police precinct.SEATTLE PROTESTERS DECLARE 'COP FREE ZONE' AFTER POLICE LEAVE PRECINCTDemonstrators remained peaceful, without reports of violence or injuries, but are pushing Mayor Jenny…
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…