President Trump canceled his weekend trip to Bedminster, NJ on Friday as the state imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine for people traveling to the region from states experiencing an increase in COVID-19 positives. But the president said he will stay home in DC to monitor the protests. The president was …
Read More »Thomas Blanton, Alabama Church KKK Bomber in 1963, dies in prison
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of the three members of the Ku Klux Klans convicted of an attack on the Alabama church in 1963 that killed four black girls and was the deadliest attack by the civil rights movement, died in prison , the governor’s office …
Read More »Fact check: breaking down Trump’s false claims about DACA and the Supreme Court
Trump responded to the court’s decision with two tweets that were filled with false and misleading claims. Here is a breakdown. Done first: It makes no sense to claim that Trump has been trying to support DACA recipients better than Democrats. Trump has repeatedly tried to end DACA (Deferred Action …
Read More »Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 wastewater sample, Spanish study shows
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish virologists have found traces of the new coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona wastewater collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the Novel Coronavirus 2019 …
Read More »Portland anti-police protesters try to establish autonomous zone, instead create ‘war zone’: reports
The protests in Portland turned violent when protesters attempted to establish an autonomous zone and looted shops around a police compound, turning it into a “war zone”, according to reports. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the North Precinct on the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death while in police custody, …
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