On Monday, Cobb County District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes, a black woman, was appointed as the fourth prosecutor in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man gunned down in February by two white men while on a jog in Brunswick, Ga. The father-and-son suspects in the case, Gregory and Travis McMichael, are accused […]
Travis Miller (center) being held in an Oklahoma City neighborhood. Facebook/Travis Miller Travis Miller, a delivery driver in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, says a neighborhood’s homeowners’ association president blocked him into a gated community and demanded to know why he was there. Miller captured the ordeal on Facebook Live, in a video that lasts for 37 […]
Apparently one Senate investigation just wasn’t enough. On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.) announced his committee would be opening an investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI investigation into possible ties between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Graham’s announcement comes just a few weeks after the Senate Intelligence Committee released its own report […]
WASHINGTON — Testifying before the House of Representatives Thursday morning, Rick Bright, a federal scientist who alleges that he has been sidelined by the Trump administration, warned that “our window of opportunity is closing” to stop the coronavirus, and without quick action it will return in autumn with redoubled force. In consistently damning testimony, the […]
Peggy Popham gets her flu shot every year, despite her daughter Laura’s opposition to vaccines. “I’m 70 and I’ve gotten sick before,” said Popham. “I don’t have a great immune system.” Popham, who spoke to Yahoo News by phone while quarantining at home in Asheville, N.C., acknowledges that the same factors put her at risk […]
Things have never been easy for Massachusetts cannabis businesses, says Ellen Rosenfeld. “I’ve been in this over five years; it’s been one fight after another,” says Rosenfeld, president of CommCan, which is licensed by the Massachusetts government to grow and sell both recreational and medical cannabis. “Nothing’s been easy, nothing.” Less than six months after […]
One might think in such a dark time where nearly 300,000 lives have been lost worldwide due to coronavirus and more than 33 million Americans are out of work, some comic relief would be welcomed with open arms. But instead of watching comedies like “The Hangover” or “Broad City,” Americans are watching dramas like “Contagion” […]
“ “This virus may never go away.” ” That’s the grim reality that Mike Ryan, emergencies director for the World Health Organization, said Wednesday during a coronavirus briefing. Speaking during a virtual news conference from Geneva, Ryan said the world should prepare for the possibility that a vaccine for COVID-19 will not be found. Even […]
Carrie Harris, 31, never thought she would buy a $60 cat tent. “I was zooming ZM, +3.78% with my friends from college and I admired one of their cat beds in the background that sort of resembled a tent,” Harris, a Fairfield, Conn.-based polar scientist, said. “A different friend then told us about this Australian […]
This letter from a father about unpaid child support proved controversial: J.M. in Texas wrote to The Moneyist on Tuesday to say he owed back child support for his son from my first marriage and, as such, money from his stimulus check was withheld and, instead, used to repay some of those debts. “Does President […]