Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, who won a runoff earlier this month to represent Louisiana’s Baton Rouge area, died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19. Letlow was set to be sworn in as U.S. representative for the state’s MORE
The Louisville Metro Police Department is seeking to fire two more officers in the police shooting of Breonna Taylor — one who sought the “no-knock” search warrant for her apartment and a second who fired the fatal bullet. MORE
Judged by his most recent tweet, President Donald Trump is not happy with the news that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked an initial attempt by Senate Democrats to approve $2,000 Covid relief checks. “Unless Republicans have MORE
A manager fired from Tyson Foods for placing bets on which workers would contract the coronavirus defended his actions as a “morale boost.” MORE
The Washington, D.C., hotel and bar where the white nationalist Proud Boys hang out when they’re in town for protests has announced it will be closed Jan. 6, the day Congress is scheduled to certify the MORE
The vulnerability of the telecommunications system in Nashville and beyond became clear Christmas Day when AT&T’s central office in downtown became the site of a bombing. Mayor John Cooper called the blast on Second Avenue an attack on infrastructure. The effects MORE
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to set up a stand-alone vote on increasing the amount of recently passed stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000. McConnell signaled separately MORE
“This is a catastrophe,” Mayor Darinko Dumbovic. “My city is completely destroyed.” “We need firefighters, we don’t know what’s under the surfaces, a roof fell on a car, we need help.” At least one person MORE
The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on Monday effectively accusing President Trump of sabotaging Republicans’ chances of winning the Georgia Senate runoffs with his push for $2,000 stimulus checks, calling it an “in-kind contribution to Minority Leader Chuck MORE
So about 1 in 1,000 Americans who were alive 12 months ago have now died of Coronavirus, life expectancy in America has dropped by 3 years in the deadliest year in American history, and WHILE DECEMBER MORE
As speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, the Republican arguably did more anyone else to sow the seeds of division in Washington. “Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, MORE
A woman falsely accused the 14-year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold, who is Black, of stealing her iPhone in a NYC hotel. “Are you kidding me? You feel like there’s only one iPhone made MORE