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Deputy Police Chief Chris Davis told reporters a white man in his 30s had been shot and killed in Portland by police.
Peloton is best known for its stationary bikes, but it introduced the treadmill about three years ago and now calls it the Tread+.
The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday.
Already, Iran has begun enriching uranium up to 60% purity in response — three times higher than ever before, though in small quantities.
They spent six months aboard the International Space Station.
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the heavily guarded Brooklyn Center police station every night since former Officer Kim Potter, who is white, shot the 20-year-old Black motorist during a traffic stop on Sunday.
The State Department’s internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules.
A jury has recommended the maximum possible sentence for a Kansas City man convicted of killing two women about a decade apart.
The moves are part of a government-wide effort by the Biden administration to address climate change ahead of a virtual global summit on climate change that President Joe Biden is hosting next week.
Some Kansas counties are rejecting new COVID-19 vaccine shipments or reducing their orders.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed proposed income tax cuts in Kansas.
Castro didn’t say who he would endorse as his successor as first secretary-general of the Communist Party, but he previously has indicated that he favors yielding control to Miguel Diaz-Canel, who succeeded him as president in 2018.
The complaint offers new details, written with a flourish, reflecting the university’s perspective on its rift with Falwell.
That was the only charge prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office asked the grand jury to consider after nine days of testimony.
Her husband, actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died “peacefully at home” after a “heroic battle with cancer.”
The bill introduced Thursday would permit a practice known as “natural organic reduction” but also called “human composting.”
CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday that ticket sales have been stronger in the last two weeks than at any time since the pandemic hit the U.S. last year.
The panel’s initial 90-day deadline to come up with a decision was days away.
In a handwritten note to the president uncovered by archivists at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, the Duke of Edinburgh wrote to “humbly apologize” for failing to toast the president’s health as dictated by protocol during a “stag” dinner in his honor.
The question comes as the general secretary of ruling LDP political party, Toshihiro Nikai, raised the possibility the day before.
Body camera footage of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy last month will be released Thursday, the board that reviews such shootings said.
President Joe Biden raised the subject of the reported bounties on U.S. troops during his first call with Putin on Jan. 26, the White House said at the time. No mention of the topic was revealed by the White House after their latest call on Tuesday.
An airport spokeswoman said the incident happened on the Terminal A lower level.
A jury has convicted a former central Kansas police chief of several felony counts brought against him in a domestic stalking case.
The Lawrence area has lifted more coronavirus restrictions, with a growing number of University of Kansas employees and students getting vaccinated.
A 12-year-old child from Kansas City was killed in a shooting at a Leavenworth pharmacy, police said.
The image by Danish photographer Mads Nissen captured the moment Rosa Luzia Lunardi was hugged by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza at the Viva Bem care home in Sao Paulo on Aug. 5.
House Democrats approved legislation Thursday that they say would help close the gap between what men and women are paid in the workplace, though the measure faces little chance of overcoming Republican opposition in the Senate.
The practice by the Permanent Fund Dividend Division continued until several people questioned or appealed being denied checks in 2019.
The top watchdog for the U.S. Capitol Police will testify for the first time on Thursday about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including missed intelligence predicting a “war” and weapons that were so old that officers didn’t feel comfortable using them.
Republicans Roger Marshall of Kansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri were among a handful of conservative U.S. senators who opposed moving forward with a Democratic-sponsored measure for confronting hate crimes against Asian Americans.
The Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to change the name of Forrest Hill Academy to Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.
Dr. Simone Keizer-Beache, St. Vincent’s chief medical officer, said Thursday that about a dozen cases have been reported in recent days.
Members of the royal family often wear uniforms to public events by virtue of their honorary roles with the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
William Amos, who has represented the Quebec district of Pontiac since 2015, appeared on the screens of his fellow lawmakers completely naked Wednesday.
It was a venomous pale-headed snake that authorities say made a 540-mile journey to Sydney from a packing plant in the Australian city of Toowoomba wrapped in plastic with two heads of cos lettuce.
The superintendent of the Maryland State Police says a trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at the officer.
They told the “Today” show Thursday in a joint statement that they are calling off their two-year engagement.
COVID-19 cases have been surging across Japan with just over three months until the delayed Tokyo Olympics are set to open.
Documents posted by U.S. safety regulators say wires to the air bag sensor in the driver’s side door can become damaged with regular use.
Jobless claims are now down sharply from a peak of 900,000 in early January and well below the 700,000-plus level they had been stuck at for months.
Retail sales surged a seasonally adjusted 9.8% in March after dropping about 3% the month before, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Overall, a tally by Johns Hopkins University shows nearly 3 million deaths have been linked to COVID-19 worldwide.
The commission created by the bill would study possible remedies to slavery and discrimination in the United States such as compensation and a formal apology.
Police body camera footage shows a routine police pat-down of a man in a hospital emergency room erupting within minutes into a fatal police shooting after the man apparently fires a gun he had concealed in his possession.
A group of ninth-grade students has been disciplined for cyberbullying other students based on their race, the school district says.
Authorities say a Texas police officer was shot multiple times during a traffic stop.
The bill is the most substantive congressional response to what has been an alarming rise in racist sentiment against Asian Americans, fueled in part by derogatory language about the virus’ origins in China.
The charge against former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter was filed Wednesday, three days after Wright was killed during a traffic stop and as the nearby murder trial progresses for the ex-officer charged with killing George Floyd.