Top House Democrats and Republicans demanded Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs remove headstones over German prisoner-of-war graves that bear swastika insignias and words praising Hitler, calling it “callous” to leave them in place. The VA has defended the grave markers, saying they are part of history and to remove them would violate a…
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Vice President Mike Pence, and chief executive officer and president of Hy-Vee, Inc. Randy Edeker hold a roundtable discussion on coronavirus with food industry executives on Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Ron Pearson Center in West Des Moines. Olivia Sun/The Register via Imagn Content Services, LLC Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for…
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…