As Trump’s time in office nears its end, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator’s reputation is frayed When Dr. Deborah Birx was brought into President Donald Trump’s orbit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, she had a sterling reputation as a former U.S. Army physician, a globally recognized AIDS researcher and a rare Obama administration holdover….
Brandon Scott‘s name will undoubtedly be added to the list of emerging young Black mayors elected to metropolitan cities across America, but it was his afro that became the central focus when he was sworn into office. Brandon M. Scott is the 52nd Mayor of Baltimore, working to end gun violence, restore the public’s trust…
The intruder signaled for her silence when she saw him, but instead, young Diar ran and alerted her parents he was there. The seven-year-old daughter of NBA player DeMar DeRozan is being called a hero after reports surfaced that she was the one who spotted an intruder in their home last month. DeRozan confronted the…
Tamala Payne said she wants the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy involved be jailed and said she’ll never be able to hold her son again, except “at his damn funeral.” The mother of a Black man shot by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy demanded answers Wednesday to her son’s death, saying he’d done nothing wrong and…
The meeting of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration represented the next-to-last hurdle before the expected start of the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close…
Trump’s attorneys are urging the courts to act quickly so he can appeal any adverse ruling before members of the Electoral College meet on Monday President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Thursday, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of…
A self-described Missouri “cop watcher” was tackled to the ground by police officers as he filmed them responding to a call in Springfield, Missouri, last month. Terry Rucker, a 35-year-old Black man, shared video from the Nov. 26 encounter on Facebook and YouTube and it went viral on several social media pages. Now the two…
He warned that while COVID-19 typically is non-fatal for young, healthy folk, it’s unpredictable, leading to long-term issues. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been one of America’s most trusted medical leaders during the coronavirus pandemic, recently confirmed that the virus has impacted his own family. The nation’s leading disease expert said the brother of his…
Pennsylvania’s Republican majority leader of the Senate said Trump personally called her, urging her to cry election fraud. A Republican leader of the Pennsylvania legislature said she would face extraordinary backlash if she did not support claims that there was fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In speaking with The New York Times, Kim Ward, the…
Rising COVID-19 rates and worker burnout in Cobb County were reportedly why they offered five locations, down from 11. Authorities in Cobb County, Georgia have announced that they will add two additional early voting locations for the state’s crucial Senate runoff election. The county had previously said rising cases of COVID-19 and election worker burnout…
