June 12, 1963 — in history
Civil rights leader is assassinated at his home
A WWII veteran and civil rights leader working on high-profile cases, including the deaths of Emmet Till and James Meredith, Medgar Evers, 37, is shot in the back and through the heart as he arrives at his home. His murderer will be twice acquitted and not be sent to p…[Read more]

Abby Lee Miller, the doyenne coach of “Dance Moms,” saw her plans for a new dance show on Lifetime cancelled Friday in the wake of racism allegations by an ex-“Dance Moms” cast member. Miller acknowledged her words and expressed regret.

Miller, who was released from federal prison in 2018 after a fraud conviction, was preparing a new show,…[Read more]

Abigale Lee Miller is an American dance instructor, choreographer, and reality television personality. She is the founder of the Abby Lee Dance Company, which appeared on the reality television series Dance Moms for eight seasons.

ndia’s Ministry of Health reported another 9,887 confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking its total to 236,657. That now makes India the sixth hardest hit country as its cumulative cases top those of Italy, according to Hopkins data.

Global cases: More than 6.75 million
Global deaths: At least 393,934
U.S. cases: More than 1.89 million
U.S. deaths: At least 108,996
The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

As the global death toll of Covid-19 surpasses 390,000, the spread of the virus continues to accelerate in parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to the World Health Organization.

California will allow day camps, bars, gyms, campgrounds and professional sports to begin reopening with precautions in a week.

The 2019–20 Premier League is the 28th season of the Premier League, the top English professional football league, since its establishment in 1992. Manchester City are the defending champions for the second successive year, after picking up the domestic treble the previous season. It is currently halted, following a decision on 13 March 2020 by t…[Read more]

The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth’s perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon. This means that the lunar hemisphere facing Earth – the near side – is completely sunlit and appears as a circular disk. The full moon occurs roughly once a month.

Travis Scott remains hopeful of reconciling his romance with Kylie Jenner.

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it to proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU). If a NEO’s orbit crosses the Earth’s, and the object is larger than 140 meters (460 ft) across, it is…[Read more]

As if 2020 couldn’t get weird enough, an asteroid will fly by earth Saturday.

According to NASA’s “NEO Earth Close Approaches” website, the asteroid is 735 meters in diameter, more than twice as wide as the Williams Tower in Houston is tall.

It may seem daunting, but the asteroid will pass Earth at a safe distance, more than 3 million miles…[Read more]

The world hit another new record high for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, despite reduced emissions because of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists announced Thursday.

Measurements of carbon dioxide, the chief human-caused greenhouse gas, averaged 417.1 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, for the month of May, when carbon…[Read more]

Rev. Al Sharpton announced Thursday plans for an Aug. 28 march in Washington, D.C., on the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.

“We are going back to Washington,” Sharpton declared while delivering the eulogy at a memorial service in Minnesota for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer…[Read more]

France’s Bastille Day military parade marking its national day will be replaced by a ceremony on the Place de la Concorde square in central Paris, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said on Thursday.

The ceremony, which will include the traditional fly-over by the French air force, will honour the military’s participation in the fight again…[Read more]

Oregon’s largest school district said Thursday it will discontinue the use of school resource officers in its schools in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

The announcement makes it one of a handful of districts from Minneapolis to Denver that are taking a closer look at the role the police officers play in their s…[Read more]

Brazil surpassed Italy as the country with the third most fatalities in the world from the coronavirus. Even as the pandemic eases in some countries, the virus continues to spread, with about 100,000 new cases being added every day as hot spots emerge from Latin America to India.