A Schenectady police officer put his knee on a suspect’s head during an arrest after responding to a call about damaged property Monday,…
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump, who has denigrated Mexican migrants and threatened the U.S. ally with crippling tariffs, welcomed…
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An independent autopsy reveals Andres Guardado, the teenager whose death on June 18 sparked an outcry across Los Angeles, was shot five times in the…
Continue Reading Don’t expect Ivy League sports this fall due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Ivy League Council of Presidents said Wednesday that all…
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MIAMI, Florida — U.S. authorities in Florida on Wednesday arrested a former Mexican governor for extradition on corruption charges,…
Continue Reading Christian Cooper, the Black man who filmed a White woman calling the police on him while he was birdwatching in Central Park in May, has not…
Continue Reading A gap in resources widened by the coronavirus pandemic is leading Stanford University to cut 11 varsity sports from the school’s athletics…
Continue Reading Pat Chambers, head coach of the men’s basketball team at Penn State, apologized Monday for comments he made in 2019 that led to the departure…
Continue Reading Nine months after seeing a policeman gun down his aunt, Atatiana Jefferson, in her Fort Worth, Texas, home, 8-year-old Zion Carr is…
Continue Reading Florida has announced that it will require schools to reopen for in-person classes next month. The order came down as the state smashes daily records…
Continue Reading New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said city schools plan to reopen in the fall with a “blended learning” approach in which most students…
Continue Reading Paleontologists may have identified a new species of dinosaur that lived, mated and nested in the Arctic 70 million years ago. Analysis of the tip of…
Continue Reading Three Black Lives Matter roadway murals in Vermont were defaced, state police say. The murals, located in and near Underhill, featured the slogans…
Continue Reading It may soon be illegal to make discriminatory, racially biased 911 calls in San Francisco. The “CAREN Act” (Caution Against Racially…
Continue Reading Dr. Andrew Pastewski, the ICU medical director at Florida’s Jackson South Medical Center, has been treating coronavirus patients at his…
Continue Reading With pressure mounting on the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change its team name due to its racist connotations, an NHL team also under scrutiny…
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic is ravaging parts of the country and affecting numerous aspects of American life. It has overwhelmed hospitals within a few…
Continue Reading A pair of conjoined twin girls with an extremely rare condition have been successfully separated at a hospital in the Vatican City. Ervina and…
Continue Reading The WNBA is no stranger to issues of social justice. Tuesday, the organization distanced itself from Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, a co-owner of…
Continue Reading International students in the United States could be made to leave the country if their universities decide to only offer online courses, Immigration…
Continue Reading My lucky Atlanta United jersey is ready for Saturday night. I’m not. Don’t get me wrong, I so miss sports. I’ve been watching…
Continue Reading Well, that was quick. After a few weeks of rising sales, airline bookings are trending downwards again because of rising Covid-19 cases. Here’s…
Continue Reading David Lindstrom is 58, homeless — and has Covid-19. “It’s not a fun trip. It kinda makes you feel like you got ran over by a Mack…
Continue Reading As concerns over the capacity of hospitals resurface amid surging Covid-19 cases, two emergency room doctors say they worry about where the pandemic…
Continue Reading Two US Navy admirals in charge of a rare South China Sea exercise say “extraordinary” coronavirus measures taken by the service,…
Continue Reading China would be “happy” to join trilateral nuclear arms control talks with the United States and Russia, on the condition that Washington…
Continue Reading The University of California (UC) announced Michael V. Drake as the new president of the university system in a meeting on Tuesday. The UC Board of…
Continue Reading A group of men who operated a self-proclaimed internet addiction treatment facility in southeastern China have been sentenced to prison, after being…
Continue Reading The FBI is investigating an incident over the Fourth of July weekend in which an Indiana man says he was the victim of a racist attack involving…
Continue Reading Mary Kay Letourneau, the Seattle teacher who was convicted in 1997 of raping a 13-year-old student she later married, has died of cancer, her former…
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