A Virginia high school named for Robert E. Lee will be renamed for Rep. John Lewis
A Virginia high school named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be renamed to honor the late US Rep. John Lewis, effective this fall, the local…
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As Covid-19 closed schools worldwide, this CNN Hero kept his promise to feed more than one million hungry students
Amid concerns about staying safe through a global pandemic, hundreds of millions of people across the world are also worrying about how they will get…
Continue Reading Former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who resigned amid controversy found dead in his home
Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter, was found dead in his home…
Continue Reading Massachusetts restaurant repeals a dress code policy banning durags and other items, after locals call it racist
A Massachusetts restaurant owner has apologized and eliminated a dress code policy after garnering backlash from residents and local politicians, who…
Continue Reading A key miscalculation by officers contributed to the tragic death of Breonna Taylor
In the early morning hours of March 13, police in Louisville, Kentucky, arrested a suspected crack cocaine dealer by the name of Jamarcus Glover.…
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Trump calls off GOP Nat’l Convention in Florida, citing virus ‘flare-up’
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump says he has scrubbed his planned Republican National Convention scheduled for Florida next month,…
Continue Reading U.S. tops 4 million virus cases as hospitalizations near record
The U.S. on Thursday surpassed 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases — and a quarter of that count came in just the last 15 days. The…
Continue Reading A climber died after falling from the Dragon’s Tail in Glacier National Park
A climber died at Glacier National Park in Montana after falling several hundred feet from a ridge known as the Dragon’s Tail. The 20-year-old…
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After 128 days in a hospital — 51 on a ventilator — Covid-19 survivor ‘Miracle Larry’ is finally home
NEW YORK, NY — At one point Larry Kelly was considered the sickest patient at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. A day after being admitted, he…
Continue Reading Jeffrey Epstein’s homes in New York and Palm Beach are for sale for a combined $110 million
Two homes owned by Jeffrey Epstein and cited in court documents as some of the locations where Epstein was accused of sexually abusing young women…
Continue Reading Washington Nationals star tests positive for Covid-19 hours before home opener
Washington Nationals left fielder Juan Soto has tested positive for Covid-19. Soto will miss the team’s opener against the New York Yankees…
Continue Reading A typo on a death certificate exposes a man allegedly trying to avoid prison
A Long Island man allegedly created a fake death certificate to avoid being sentenced for unrelated charges, but a typo on the certificate gave him…
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AP poll finds 3 in 4 Americans support orders requiring face masks
LOS ANGELES, California — Three out of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, favor requiring people to wear face coverings while…
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Judge orders Michael Cohen to be released from prison
NEW YORK, NY — A judge ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying the government…
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Watchdog to review conduct of federal agents in Portland & D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that it will conduct a review of the conduct of federal agents who…
Continue Reading At least 15 prisoners at a California prison have died of apparent complications from Covid-19
At least 15 people incarcerated at California’s oldest prison have died since June from apparent Covid-19-related complications amid a growing…
Continue Reading University professors fear the risks of classroom teaching in pandemic hot spots
Dr. Joe Gerald will be lecturing students in person this fall. But what he might teach them in his public health course is that being in the…
Continue Reading The Boston Red Sox put up a Black Lives Matter billboard over the Massachusetts Turnpike
The Boston Red Sox are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” — written in the…
Continue Reading Washington’s football team to call itself Washington Football Team until it settles on a new name
The Washington NFL franchise, formerly known as the Washington Redskins, is officially going to change its name to the Washington Football Team. The…
Continue Reading Portland mayor tear gassed after speaking with protesters on presence of federal agents
Mayor Ted Wheeler was tear gassed in downtown Portland early Thursday morning, according to video and posts on Twitter from a New York Times…
Continue Reading World will have 710M tons of plastic pollution by 2040 despite efforts to cut waste, study says
If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710…
Continue Reading Black Lives Matter protests across America continue nearly 2 months after George Floyd’s death
The national Black Lives Matter protest movement, rekindled in the days after an unarmed George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis last May,…
Continue Reading To stop vote meddling, Western leaders have to want to do something about it
The question is not whether Russia and China will try to influence Western elections — it’s whether Western governments have the wit and…
Continue Reading Convent outside Detroit lost 13 nuns to Covid-19 with 12 dying in one month
Coronavirus spread so quickly through a convent in Michigan that it claimed the lives of 12 nuns in one month, beginning on Good Friday. They were…
Continue Reading The newest NHL team officially has a name. Meet the Seattle Kraken
Seattle’s new hockey team got a name this week, and it’s a nod to what haunts the city’s mysterious, murky waters. Meet the Seattle…
Continue Reading Search for a mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre ends without finding human remains
A search for potential mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has ended without uncovering any evidence of human remains. The test excavation…
Continue Reading Have a low pain threshold? You might be part Neanderthal
Do you wince as you walk, or wake up with aches and pains? It could be down to your genes — your Neanderthal genes, that is. Many of us are…
Continue Reading Judge rules to unseal documents in 2015 case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged accomplice
A federal judge ruled on Thursday to publicly release documents that have been kept under seal in a case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey…
Continue Reading Nursing home worker deaths going unscrutinized by federal government
Less than a month before he died of Covid-19, Victor Sison posted photos of himself at the New Jersey nursing home where he had worked for many…
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