Two cases of bubonic plague prompt crack down on marmot hunting
Russian authorities have warned people near the country’s border with Mongolia not to hunt or eat marmots after an outbreak of bubonic plague.…
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Warrant in fatal encounter between Breonna Taylor and police was linked to gentrification plan, family’s lawyers claim
The police raid of Breonna Taylor’s home that ended with police killing her was connected to a political plan to clear a Louisville, Kentucky,…
Continue Reading Florida jogger finds decomposing human head on side of the road
A woman out for a run in St. Petersburg, Florida, came across a decomposing human head on the side of the road on Tuesday, according to police.…
Continue Reading Atlanta mayor says increase in shootings stems from ‘perfect storm of distress’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Tuesday the increase in shootings and murders in the city and across the country is the result of a…
Continue Reading Attorney for White woman who called police on Black birdwatcher decries ‘cancel culture’
The attorney for the White woman facing charges for calling police on a Black man birdwatching in Central Park said she would be acquitted and…
Continue Reading Opening night Major League Soccer match is postponed due to positive Covid-19 tests
MLS is not quite back. Major League Soccer’s MLS is Back Tournament match between Nashville SC and Chicago Fire FC has been postponed, the…
Continue Reading FDA warns against using 5 more hand sanitizers found to contain methanol
The US Food and Drug Administration has added five hand sanitizers to its list of products that have tested positive for a toxic chemical. These…
Continue Reading Courts find new ways to swear in citizens despite coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis has made naturalization ceremonies look a little different, but they are no less meaningful for new US citizens. At the…
Continue Reading This student collected garbage to pay for college. Now he’s headed to Harvard Law
A college graduate from Maryland has been admitted to Harvard Law after continued adversity nearly made him abandon school altogether. After…
Continue Reading Miami-Dade to shut down restaurants again as Florida’s Covid-19 hospitalizations surge
As Florida sets the most dubious of records amid the coronavirus pandemic, Miami-Dade County has decided it’s done playing by the state’s…
Continue Reading Australia to reimpose six-week coronavirus lockdown in second largest city as country battles potential second wave
Strict lockdown measures are to be reimposed in Australia’s second largest city, as authorities scramble to prevent a second wave of…
Continue Reading Phoenix police shot and killed a man in a parked car, sparking renewed protests
Phoenix police officers shot and killed a man inside a parked car July 4 in an incident captured on bystander video, sparking renewed protests in the…
Continue Reading Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes signs most lucrative sports deal in history, agent says
The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs have signed their quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a 10-year contract extension that his agent says is the most…
Continue Reading Florida will require schools to reopen in August despite a surge in coronavirus cases
Florida, the new US hotspot for coronavirus, will require schools to reopen in August. The state’s Commissioner of the Department of Education,…
Continue Reading What you need to know about coronavirus on Tuesday, July 7
The number of new coronavirus cases recorded daily in the United States has doubled in the span of a week and a half. Asked about the surge in cases,…
Continue Reading WNBA players will wear Breonna Taylor’s name on their uniforms to honor women lost to racial violence
This season’s WNBA players hope that before you chant their names, you’ll remember the victims of police and racial violence too. When…
Continue Reading Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tells fans he had lung screening
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in BrasÃlia Monday that he took a Covid-19 exam and that…
Continue Reading A former US soldier has pleaded not guilty to charges he was planning an attack on his own unit
A former US Army soldier pleaded not guilty to charges that he was planning a mass casualty attack on his own unit by sending sensitive information…
Continue Reading Hong Kong schools told to remove books that violate new law as police powers extended
Schools in Hong Kong have been told that they must remove books and teaching materials that could violate the sweeping national security law that was…
Continue Reading Chinese authorities confirm case of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia
In the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, a city is on high alert. On Tuesday, they confirmed a case of a disease that has persisted centuries after…
Continue Reading About a fifth of adults in the US have moved due to Covid-19 or know someone who did, a new study shows
When the coronavirus pandemic began its rapid spread from country to country and eventually state to state, what once felt like home was no longer a…
Continue Reading 5 of the victims who died in an Idaho plane collision have been identified
Authorities have identified five of the victims killed in a deadly plane collision that happened over an Idaho lake over the holiday weekend. Eight…
Continue Reading California prisons replace their top medical officer amid a coronavirus outbreak
The top medical officer for California’s corrections system has been replaced amid a growing coronavirus outbreak among the state’s…
Continue Reading Australia to seal off 6.6 million people in virus-hit state as outbreak worsens
Australia will isolate 6.6 million people in the state of Victoria from the rest of the nation at 11.59 p.m. on Tuesday, as authorities take drastic…
Continue Reading A statue of Frederick Douglass was toppled over the Fourth of July weekend, the anniversary of his famous speech
There’s only a stump where a statue of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass once stood. The monument to Douglass, one of several in Rochester,…
Continue Reading A woman who allegedly coughed on a baby no longer has her school district job
A woman who allegedly coughed on a baby during a social distancing dispute no longer has her job with a California school district. Oak Grove School…
Continue Reading Japan says Chinese ships spend record time violating its territorial waters
Chinese coast guard ships have twice intruded into Japan’s territorial waters in the past four days, forcing Japanese coast guard vessels to…
Continue Reading They envisioned a world without police. Inside Seattle’s CHOP zone, protesters struggled to make it real
In Wednesday’s early morning hours, Seattle police cleared the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, a relatively quiet end to a demonstration…
Continue Reading A woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at a police car suggests a protester gave her the device
A White woman accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car in late May during a George Floyd protest in Brooklyn claims she was given the…
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