The number of NYPD officers filing for retirement has soared. A total of 503 of New York’s finest have filed for retirement between May 25 and July 3, a 75 percent jump compared to 2019, and between June 29 and July 6 alone, the department said 179 NYPD officers filed, a 411 percent increase from the same time last year.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…