Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Friday that mandates go into effect immediately On Friday, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced new mandates in the city that people wear face masks and all city employees get vaccinated amid a new surge in COVID cases, CNN reports. In addition to the mask order, she urged in a press…
Elaine Thompson-Herah did what up until now was the impossible. The Jamaican sprinter established a new Olympic record in Tokyo on Saturday, July 31. She took home the gold medal in the women’s 100 meters with a time of 10.61, shaving one hundredth of a second off Florence Griffith Joyner’s previous record of 10.61 from…
The delta variant and breakthrough infections have made weary parents cautious in some instances, but adamant against mask-wearing in others HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With U.S. health officials recommending that children mask up in school this fall, parents and policy makers across the nation have been plunged anew into a debate over whether face coverings…
The gymnast will not participate in the first of the individual event finals but holds out some hope she’ll compete Simone Biles is opting not to defend her Olympic vault title, pulling out of Sunday’s event finals for both vault and uneven bars while she focuses on her mental health. The 24-year-old six-time Olympic medalist…
Missouri Rep. Cori Bush says that she knows what it’s like to be homeless and believes evictions will lead to more deaths as the pandemic surges anew On Friday, Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush stated that she would sleep outside of the U.S. Capitol building after Congress adjourned without voting to extend the national moratorium on…
“I know a thing or 2 about being the grand dame,” rap star Nicki Minaj says Nicki Minaj stunned fans on Friday when she hinted that she may be hosting the next Real Housewives of Potomac reunion. Minaj took to her Instagram account and posted a trailer for the hit Bravo reality show, which is…
Four Miami Beach police officers were placed on administrative leave with pay, and some may be hit with charges following the aggressive arrests of three men this week. An internal affairs investigation into the encounter has since been launched. Dalonta Crudup, Khalid Vaughn, and Sharif Cobb, ages 24, 28, and 27, respectively, were taken into…
Smollett’s attorney barred from questioning the two brothers allegedly hired to stage attack A judge on Friday said he would not kick one of Jussie Smollett’s attorneys off the case even though he believes the attorney spoke to two men the actor allegedly hired to help him carry out a staged racist and homophobic attack….
New law makes possession of small amounts of marijuana a misdemeanor crime carrying a fine up to $100, but no jail time in Louisiana Louisiana is ending jail time for possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana, adding new requirements for doctors administering the abortion pill and restricting when police officers can use chokehold restraints,…
Lawyers in two landmark cases are demanding greater input in reforms Eight years after a judge ruled New York City police violated the constitution by stopping, questioning and frisking mostly Black and Hispanic people on the street en masse, people in communities most affected by such tactics say they’ve been shut out of the legal…
