Superdome officials say positive COVID-19 tests have come back for 32 of 275 workers contracted to perform stadium renovations. A statement released by the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District on Tuesday says affected workers have been “isolated away from the job site.” “This post-Memorial Day increase is consistent with what 21 other states, not including...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe man accused of shooting a protester amid clashes between demonstrators and an armed militia group in Albuquerque, New Mexico is the son of a former sheriff’s deputy and once ran for the local city council, according to a report.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The lawyer for a 75-year-old New York man who was shoved to the ground by police officers during a protest said Tuesday that he is unable to walk, according to media reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
One person was shot Tuesday at a busy Dallas shopping mall, and police were seeking a single suspect, authorities said. The incident happened shortly before 7 p.m. at the Galleria in North Dallas.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The whereabouts of a statue of a slave owner toppled by protesters and thrown into the Mississippi River in New Orleans remains unknown after a group of men fished the bust out of the river.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Coronavirus deaths in the US could climb past 200,000 by October, according to the latest projections — as new cases reached record highs in several states Tuesday. An influential model from the University of Washington now predicts the death toll from the virus to now reach 201,129 by Oct.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The mayor of New Mexico’s most populous city wants to create a new municipal department consisting of social workers to respond to some 911 calls, saying the time has come for “non-law enforcement” alternatives.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against John Bolton on Tuesday to try to block the publication and sale of his new White House tell-all, arguing the former national security adviser’s memoir includes classified information that cannot be released to the public.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Now he’ll be the one spending time in the can. The former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods on Tuesday was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to fix the price of canned tuna.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A Minnesota man accused of torching a Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protests was caught on surveillance video and his own Snapchat account, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Dylan Robinson, 22, is seen on video tossing a Molotov cocktail and lighting a fire inside the police station on Mary 28, according to a criminal complaint...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTwo San Francisco-area elementary schools named after a pair of Founding Fathers who owned slaves will get new names after a school board approved a Black Lives Matter resolution last week, according to a report.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been protected from the coronavirus by installing a disinfectant tunnel for anyone who visits his residence outside Moscow, reported the state-controlled RIA news agency on Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The wife of Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr died “suddenly” on Tuesday night, reports said. Eleanor Carol Leavell Barr, who went by Carol, died at the family’s home in Lexington for unspecified reasons, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond’s mayor said Tuesday that he has asked for and accepted the resignation of the city’s police chief, saying Virginia’s capital needs “a new approach” to public safety after repeated violent clashes between police and protesters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
John McDermott told KIRO 7 News that he initially tried to detain a protester Sunday night who stole cash and set a fire in his Car Tender business on the edge of the so-called “Capital Hill Autonomous Zone."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAn Oklahoma father who was arrested after his two kids died in a hot truck has been released — after a video showed the tots climbed into the vehicle of their own accord, according to a report.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Aaron Glee Jr., 49, was arrested Sunday in the deaths of 19-year-old activist Oluwatoyin Salau and Victoria Sims, 75.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe head of the NYPD’s sergeants union on Tuesday praised President Trump’s executive order calling for policing reforms and support for law enforcement in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the protests it ignited.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Christian Brückner, who is currently behind bars in his native Germany on drug raps, claims he had nothing to do with the British child's disappearance in Portugal in 2007.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEx-NFL player and former Georgia football All-American Bacarri Rambo was arrested in Georgia Monday night on a rape charge, reports say. Rambo was booked into the Clarke County Jail after 10 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
They want a statue of heavy metal. More than 50,000 people have signed a petition to replace Richmond, Virginia’s statue of Robert E. Lee with a memorial to the late frontman of heavy metal band GWAR.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tried to tamp down fears of a second coronavirus wave on Tuesday as the state set new records for daily cases and hospitalizations. The Lone Star State’s health department tallied 2,622 new infections, the most reported in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
HONOLULU — Most of the 21 people part of a group who call themselves a misunderstood, nature-loving family remained jailed Tuesday over allegedly violating Hawaii’s traveler quarantine, even after they agreed to return to Los Angeles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Chilling video shows the moment a suicidal father drove his truck off a cliff in San Diego with his 2-year-old twin daughters inside before all three were rescued. The man plunged off Sunset Cliffs about 4:30 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Air Force sergeant linked to a far-right extremist “Boogaloo” movement who allegedly gunned down a sheriff’s deputy in California earlier this month has been charged with killing a federal security officer in May, a report said Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Congressional Republicans are demanding documents and a briefing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the controversial order that forced New York’s nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients, saying the mandate “likely contributed” to the state’s devastating death toll.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Northern California’s Pacific Gas & Electric company pleaded guilty Tuesday to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from a 2018 wildfire that nearly burned the entire town of Paradise to the ground.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Just when you thought flying during the coronavirus pandemic couldn’t get any worse, airlines are now banning booze in an effort to curb the bugs’ spread. In the United States, Delta and American Airlines have already taken steps to limit the presence of alcohol.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden could be facing a progressive reckoning. More than 50 left-leaning organizations signed a letter to the former vice president criticizing his policing proposals, cautioning that he risked losing black support ahead of the November election if he did not alter his platform.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The GOP-backing husband of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic primary challenger has been pumping money into a Super PAC intended to end the freshman firebrand’s congressional career at one term, campaign records reveal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share