The mother of a Black man who was fatally shot while he was running away from a white Nashville police officer begged a judge on Friday not to accept a plea deal that would send the former officer to jail for only three years. The mother, Vickie Hambrick, cried and screamed as she pounded and […]
Rescue crews found the body of the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter while searching the wreckage of Champlain Towers South, officials said Friday as they announced that the known death toll had risen to 20. As many as 128 people remain unaccounted for. The discovery of the firefighter’s daughter was especially painful for rescue […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Johnson & Johnson said its vaccine protects against the Delta variant. Germany recommended that people who received a first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine get a second dose with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether Maine may exclude religious schools that offer sectarian education from a state tuition program. The case, Carson v. Makin, No. 20-1088, is broadly similar to one from Montana decided by the court last year. In that case, the court ruled that states must allow […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden on Friday (July 2) backed a recommendation that US military prosecutions of sexual assaults be taken away from the chain of command and given to independent prosecutors to better serve the victims. The change recommended by an independent review commission would represent a major shift in how the military […]
Tropical Storm Elsa became Hurricane Elsa on Friday morning as it moved along a path that could batter the Caribbean this weekend and hit Florida early next week, potentially complicating rescue work at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium building. Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he was committed to continuing the […]
A rabbi was stabbed eight times outside a Jewish school in Boston after an attacker allegedly tried to force him into a car and kidnap him. Shlomo Noginski was approached by a man carrying a gun yesterday afternoon in the city’s Brighton neighbourhood. A struggle ensued outside the Shaloh House Jewish Day School after the […]
President Joe Biden on Friday morning touted the June jobs report that revealed 850,000 jobs were added, exceeding economists’ expectations. Nonfarm payrolls rose 850,000 for last month, according to the report released by the Labor Department, which was better than the Dow Jones estimate of 706,000 and the upwardly revised 583,000 in May. The hiring […]
US 100m sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson has apologized after she tested positive for cannabis at the American Olympic team trials last month. Richardson, 21, won the 100m Team US race in June with a time of 10.86 seconds, securing her ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games due to start later this month. That time was the sixth-fastest […]
US armed forced have left the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan which has acted as the epicenter of America’s war with the Taliban for almost 20 years. America took control of the airfield following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a bid to defeat al-Quaida and associated militants in the war-torn country. Full control of the airfield […]