Millions of people across the Southeast are under the threat of severe weather, including heavy rain and possibly isolated tornadoes, through Wednesday night.
A Black family’s beach property in California was taken during the Jim Crow era. The county is now giving it back, and it’s worth millions
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Los Angeles A century ago, a Black couple owned a beach resort in Manhattan Beach -- a Southern California town known for its scenic expanse. An inviting soulful energy and the songs of Black entertainers radiated th...
Millions of Hindu pilgrims head to the Ganges River as India’s daily coronavirus cases continue to surge
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Hindu devotees packed the streets of Haridwar, in northern India, on Monday for the largest religious pilgrimage on Earth, in scenes that defied social distancing rules just as Covid-19 infections soared in the coun...
Severe storm threat has increased across Florida causing airport delays
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Severe weather across central Florida is causing delays at some of the state's major airports as the storm threat continues to increase. Sunday's severe storm threat across the Florida Peninsula has been increased t...
Podcaster receives police visit over alleged AOC threat — but there’s more to the story
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The Twitter user, who goes by @queeralamode, is demanding answers from police and the congresswoman on why he was tracked down at home on Thursday. He said the experience left him "shaken up" en "feel[ing] very unsa...
Leo Terrell ontplof CDC-direkteur beweer dat rassisme 'n bedreiging vir die volksgesondheid is: ‘Dit is 'n leuen’
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TERRELL: Dit is pure politiek. Sy lieg. Jammer om dit te sê. Sy [Walensky] het 'n gevolgtrekking sonder enige ondersteunende feite. Wat is haar kwalifikasie om dit te sê? Sy is 'n dokter. Sy is nie 'n burgerregteprokureur nie, 'n fe ...
Racism is ‘a serious public health threat,’ CDC says
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"Racism is a system — consisting of structures, beleid, praktyke, and norms — that assigns value and determines opportunity based on the way people look or the color of their skin," the CDC posted on its website T...
UN Special Rapporteur says top Saudi official issued death threat against her for role in Khashoggi investigation
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A top Saudi official issued a death threat against Agnès Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur behind the investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Callamard's office. Callamard told ...
Ohio State player says he received death threat after team’s upset loss
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After his team's loss to Oral Roberts in the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell says he was the victim of threatening messages on social media. The 20-year-old, who finished with...
Tornadoes and heavy winds strike five states as storms continue into the Southeast
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Tornadoes struck the Deep South after a line of storms moved through the region Wednesday, part of a system that is expected to continue further into the Southeast and the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, leaving milli...
Domestic violent extremism is ‘greatest’ bedreiging,’ Minister van Binnelandse Veiligheid sê
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Domestic violent extremism is the "greatest threat" to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers Wednesday during his first congressional hearing since taking office. The threa...
UK labels Russia top security threat, issues warning on China, and promises to build more nuclear warheads
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Russia is Britain's top security challenge, the UK will build more nuclear weapons and London will expand its presence in the high-tech realms of space and cyberspace, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday ...
Millions are under winter storm advisories as blizzards and heavy rain move across the US
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Much of the country is gearing up for severe weather this weekend as late-season winter storms intensify. A slow-moving system could produce the biggest snowfall in decades for the Eastern Rockies and Western Plains...