LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A diverse crowd of hundreds marched in Louisville’s streets chanting “Black Lives Matter” on Saturday night, the fourth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. People in the crowd also chanted “No Justice, No peace” as cars honked along a busy downtown artery in this Kentucky […]
Read moreWASHINGTON — Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana. Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett’s fast-track rise, set to drive the nation’s highest court to the right for a generation or longer, is the fulfillment of a decadeslong effort by conservatives to remake […]
Read moreThe chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he carried out the attack outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad it recently republished. The 18-year-old suspect said he intended to target the satirical weekly, which in January 2015 was targeted by gunmen, an official close to the investigation […]
Read moreWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort. Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 […]
Read moreThe widow of an army soldier has hit out at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for refusing to add his name to a memorial for service men and women who gave their lives for their country. Devastated Jo Jukes is fighting for her late husband, retired officer David, to be recognised after he took his own life in 2018 after […]
Read moreMexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers they believe were involved in the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 college students six years ago. On 26 September 2014, students training to be teachers at a college in the southern state of Guerrero were allegedly kidnapped and turned over to a local gang. Four months later, an investigation […]
Read moreU.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was issuing a presidential permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail project. The project — which would see a 2,570-kilometre rail track running from near Anchorage, Alaska, through Yukon and the Northwest Territories into northern Alberta — will cost about C$22 billion. Trump’s approval is just the first step in the regulatory […]
Read moreTop scientists are said to be considering making everyone over the age of 45 shield under new coronavirus plans. Papers from SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) suggested those older than that age were at greater risk from the killer bug and could be "segmented" from the rest of the population. The idea was eventually advised against because it was […]
Read moreFILE PHOTO: A French police stands near the Opera Bastille where a suspect in a stabbing attack near the former offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Paris, France September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS (Reuters) – A suspected accomplice of a man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday in […]
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