Winston Chaney
A truck drove into a crowd at Bastille Day celebrations late Thursday in Nice, southern France, killing dozens of people. AFP reporting at least 84 people have died French President Francois Hollande: We cannot deny that it was a terror attack Truck driver shot into crowds before plowing into people for around 1.2 miles (2 […]
Earlier this month, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling died at the hands of police, and a sniper killed five police officers during a peaceful protest in Dallas. James, Anthony, Paul and Wade weren’t the first athletes to address the three events and demand change. The Minnesota Lynx’s captains, Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, Rebekkah Brunson and […]
Being too heavy may cost you your life — literally. Scientists say overweight people die one year earlier than expected and that moderately obese people die up to three years prematurely. Doctors have long warned that being overweight can lead to health complications including heart disease, stroke and cancer, and previous studies have already found […]
Authorities are investigating after they say two guns were stolen from an FBI-issued vehicle in northeast Washington. FBI spokeswoman Katherine Zackel says the weapons were taken from a Ford Expedition sometime between 6:45 a.m. and 7:49 a.m. Sunday. During that time, officials say someone smashed a window of the locked vehicle and took a lock […]
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be speaking at the NAACP Annual Convention in Ohio next week, the civil rights organization’s president and CEO said Tuesday. After days of speculation, NAACP’s Cornell William Brooks told CNN that Trump had declined the group’s invitation to address its members in Cincinnati at their conference, which […]
Bernie Sanders is offering his long-awaited endorsement to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, hoping to transfer the energy of his insurgent campaign into the party’s fight against Republican Donald Trump. Sanders and Clinton were returning to New Hampshire Tuesday for the first time since he won a 22-point landside over Clinton in the state’s presidential primary. […]
Prince George’s County prosecutors have dropped 10 charges against a 25-year-old pizza delivery driver in Bladensburg, Maryland, who says excessive force was used during a traffic stop. Christopher Jeffries had used his cellphone’s camera to videotape the Jan. 17 traffic stop, in which a Bladensburg police officer approached his vehicle with gun drawn, after Jeffries […]
Annapolis native Matthew Centrowitz has punched his ticket to the 2016 Olympic Games. Centrowitz, a five-time All-Met runner, won the men’s 1500 meters Sunday with an Olympic Trials record of 3:34.09. He finished 0.79 seconds ahead of runner-up Robby Andrews — a former University of Virginia runner — and Ben Blankenship finished third. Following in his […]
Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said […]
A group of Brazilian scientists have detected a drug-resistant bacteria growing off the shores of some of Rio de Janeiro’s most stunning beaches, one month before they’re due to host the 2016 Olympic Games. According to lead researcher Renata Picao, the “super bacteria” entered the city’s waterways when sewage coming from local hospitals got channeled […]