What started as a renewed push for police reform has now touched seemingly every aspect of American life.Protesters marching through Manhattan on Monday.Credit...Demetrius Freeman for The New York TimesThe reckonings have been swift and dizzying.On Monday, it was the dictionary, with Merriam-Webster saying it was revising its entry on racism to illustrate the ways in…
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…