Inmates shiver in frigid cells at New York jail, lawmakers say
Inmates at a federal jail in Brooklyn have suffered for days without heat or power during a wintry cold snap, according to lawyers and U.S. lawmakers who rallied outside the jail on Saturday demanding the problems be fixed and ill inmates moved.
Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize ‘magic mushrooms’
Denver voters will decide in May whether to decriminalize possession of small amounts of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, which would make it the first U.S. city to halt prosecution of people caught with psychedelic mushrooms.
Six drones confiscated in Atlanta ahead of Super Bowl
Authorities in Atlanta have confiscated six drones that violated a temporary order not to fly the devices in the area ahead of the NFL’s Super Bowl on Sunday, federal officials said.
Virginia governor denies being in racist yearbook photo
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted mounting pressure from his Democratic party that he resign, denying that he appeared in a racist yearbook photo while admitting he once wore blackface in a dance contest.
Virginia governor says he will stay in job; denies appearing in racist photo
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted mounting pressure to resign from his post and said he did not appear in a yearbook photo from decades earlier, reversing his statement from a day earlier that it depicted him in racist garb at a part…
Virginia governor says he will stay in job; denies appearing in racist photo
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted mounting pressure to resign from his post and said he did not appear in a yearbook photo from decades earlier, reversing his statement from a day earlier that it depicted him in racist garb at a part…
Virginia governor resists mounting pressure to resign
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted mounting pressure from his Democratic party to resign after a photograph surfaced which he said showed him and another person in racist garb at a party decades earlier.
Virginia governor apologizes for racist photo but resists growing calls to quit
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for a photograph in his 1984 medical school yearbook showing him and another person in racist garb at a party, but said he would serve out his term even as pressure piled on from fellow Democrats for…
Virginia governor apologizes for racist photo, resists calls to quit
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for a photograph on his 1984 medical school yearbook page showing him and another person in racist garb at a party, but said he would serve out his term even as pressure piled on from fellow Democrat…
In U.S. Midwest, 22F ‘feels like spring’ after days of brutal cold
Bone-chilling cold that paralyzed a chunk of the United States this week and killed at least 18 people eased on Friday as an errant Arctic air mass retreated ahead of a warmer-than-normal weekend in areas of the Midwest and Northeast.
