News

Honoring Black History Month may look and feel a lot different this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. But there are still plenty of ways to celebrate. Across the country, organizations are providing safe ways for people to commemorate the month virtually. Here’s a look at five ways you can partake in honoring the month without

Click here for updates on this story     McDonough, Georgia (Albany Herald) — The Henry County Sheriff’s Office has hired basketball great Shaquille O’Neal as its Director of Community Relations. O’Neal became a resident of Henry County five years ago and has been involved with the community since arriving. Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said teaming up with

Click here for updates on this story     Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — A car break-in has the attention of law enforcement across the Omaha-metro area. That is because the stolen items are dangerous in the wrong hands. The passenger side windows are smashed and Bellevue Police warn other agencies to be on the lookout because of

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Tuesday, where he ridiculed claims he broke his parole conditions while in a coma and launched an extraordinary attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin, denouncing him as a “little thieving man.” Navalny was detained two weeks ago upon his return to Moscow from Berlin, accused

The streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, appeared outwardly calm Tuesday morning, as residents made their way to work a day after the military detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically-elected leaders and seized control of the country. But behind the business-as-usual facade, anxiety is growing among many as to what will come next.

Dorothy Height (1912-2010) was often the only woman in the room. She made it her life’s work to change that, fighting battles against both sexism and racism to become, as President Obama called her, the “godmother” of the civil rights movement. Height felt the sting of racism at an early age. She was accepted to

Minneapolis police officers will no longer be allowed to deactivate their body cameras in order to hold private conversations during the course of their response to an incident, according to a statement Monday from Mayor Jacob Frey and Chief Medaria Arradondo. It is one of several new policies that have been implemented by Minneapolis and

The police chief and a patrolman in a small Georgia town have been pushed out of their jobs after they were caught having a racist, misogynist conversation while preparing to patrol a Black Lives Matter Rally in June 2020, according to Buddy Walker, an assistant to Hamilton Mayor Julie Brown. Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Tuesday in a bizarre and heated hearing in which the politician ridiculed suggestions he should have communicated with parole officers while he was in a coma. Navalny was detained two weeks ago upon his return to Moscow from Berlin, accused of failing to meet his

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday. The country woke up to widespread internet and communications blackouts, closed banks, and soldiers in army fatigues patrolling the