Kentucky has temporarily reopened in-person unemployment services to help with the state’s backlog of jobless claims, state officials tell CNN.…
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A monument to the former owner of the Washington Redskins and a statue of the former owner of the Minnesota Twins were removed Friday because of the…
Continue Reading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefings have drawn comparisons to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats…
Continue Reading On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in…
Continue Reading The city of Louisville, Kentucky, and its police department are taking the first steps toward firing an officer involved in the fatal shooting of…
Continue Reading A Baltimore-area elementary school is the scene of an unlikely free speech battle because people keep washing away the chalk art messages and…
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WASHINGTON, DC — In a major reversal, the U.S. Navy has decided to fire the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier who warned…
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — A police officer involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor will be fired, the Louisville mayor announced…
Continue Reading A crowd of protesters gathered around a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night and lit a fire on its head before pulling…
Continue Reading The ways our ancestors adapted to live in patchy landscapes cluttered with obstacles “poured jet fuel” on the evolution of the brains of…
Continue Reading Ohio police have identified three people in connection to the killing of 18-year-old Na’kia Crawford, according to a Facebook post from the…
Continue Reading Californians are now required to wear masks in a variety of public settings when social distancing isn’t possible. The order by Gov. Gavin…
Continue Reading The Southeastern Conference, the preeminent and powerhouse collegiate athletics conference in the South, made their message clear: Mississippi must…
Continue Reading A crowd gathered in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur to watch the removal of a Confederate monument — the latest controversial symbol toppled in…
Continue Reading The world needs do-gooders right now. And you want to give. But where to start? It’s easy to donate to a social cause or crowdfunding campaign,…
Continue Reading The winners of a $410 million Mega Millions jackpot said they’ve been playing the lottery for 38 years and were feeling extra lucky when they…
Continue Reading Fraternity parties in Mississippi have continued this summer, and as a result Covid-19 cases have too, the state’s health officer said…
Continue Reading Outside of Earth, intriguing ocean worlds in our solar system are of interest to astronomers as potential hubs of life. New estimates and…
Continue Reading As the number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma continues to rise, some experts are urging health officials to shut down President Donald…
Continue Reading A former Arizona county assessor pleaded guilty to running an adoption fraud scheme that involved bringing pregnant women from the Marshall Islands…
Continue Reading Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning woman who survived being shot by the Taliban, has completed her degree at Oxford University.…
Continue Reading The US Supreme Court again ruled against President Trump, this time on his attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.…
Continue Reading Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians detained in China in December 2018, have been formally charged with spying by Chinese prosecutors,…
Continue Reading As US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday that aims to punish Beijing for its repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority, he was…
Continue Reading You might see another red, white and blue flag flying today over state capitols and city buildings. That banner with a bursting star in the middle is…
Continue Reading Until last week, Beijing seemed to have all but moved on from the coronavirus pandemic. For 55 days, the Chinese capital had not reported any locally…
Continue Reading An unarmed police officer has been shot dead while carrying out a routine traffic stop in the New Zealand city of Auckland — the first to be…
Continue Reading In honor of Juneteenth, companies have given employees paid leave in celebration, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is pushing to make it a paid state…
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