A Black teenager’s death after a struggle with officers at a Kansas jail has been ruled a homicide by the local coroner. Law enforcement officials have put the corrections officers on paid leave as the investigation continues with a potential for criminal charges.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Jan. 7 on whether the Biden administration can order workers at private companies and health care employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Until the court rules, millions of workers face a patchwork of requirements depending on where they live.
BOSTON – When Wanda Olson’s son-in-law died in March after contracting COVID-19, she and her daughter had to grapple with more than just their sudden grief. They had to come up with money for a cremation.
To go into restaurants, visit gyms, go on a cruise or see the new “Spider-Man” movie in theaters, you need to show proof of vaccination in many parts of the country. But you don’t need proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to board a commercial flight within the U.S.
Researchers studying Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach America in 1860, have discovered most of the ship is still intact – down to an unventilated pen for captives. Two-thirds of the ship remain protected by freshwater and mud in a river near Mobile, Alabama, including the entire lower deck where 108 enslaved Africans were kept.
WASHINGTON – Nick Ahamed has seen both the potential and the challenge Democrats will face next year when they invoke former President Donald Trump’s name on the campaign trail. The deputy executive director of Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, was conducting research on Americans who had never cast a ballot before voting for President Joe Biden in 2020.
A blast of cold air bringing dangerously low wind chills, and accompanied in some areas by light snow, is expected to sweep into Kansas as residents usher in the new year. That storm system should affect the state from late Friday through Sunday, according to the website of the National Weather Service's Topeka office.
Kansas state Rep. Aaron Coleman hasn’t been charged with a crime a month after his arrest by state troopers along I-70 near Lawrence, which could help him get diversion in a separate domestic battery case.
Ten of this year’s most destructive weather events cost a combined $170 billion in damages, according to a new study. Hurricane Ida, a tropical storm that pummeled much of the eastern U.S.
The world likely will generate more electricity from the dirtiest source this year than ever before, indicating just how far the energy transition still needs to run in the fight against climate change.