His family insisted on holding the wedding due to “huge financial losses” that would take place if the family cancelled, reported one outlet.
Author: Joshua Bote, USA TODAY
NASA to name DC headquarters after ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson, its first Black woman engineer
The dedication of the building comes after a street outside the agency headquarters was renamed Hidden Figures Way in 2019.
Newborns in Mexico were diagnosed with coronavirus, believed to be first case of triplets
The state’s health secretary said the chances were small that the babies were infected with coronavirus so quickly outside of the womb.
Man sues Georgia police for excessive use of force after wrongfully arresting him
“I was getting ready to put my hands behind my back,” Smith said in the video. “He forcibly picked me up.”
K-pop stans, teens on TikTok may have inflated expected turnout to President Trump’s Tulsa rally
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One man dead, 11 people wounded in Minneapolis shooting, police say
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‘The Thing’: Scientists reveal world’s biggest soft-shelled egg belongs to extinct sea lizard
The egg is also the second-largest discovered from any creature, coming in second to an egg from the extinct Madagascan elephant bird.
The tortoises that saved their species by having sex have returned to their natural habitat
This includes Diego, the nearly 100-year-old Española tortoise, or Chelonoidis hoodensis, who copulated so much that he fathered around 800 offspring.
Canadian pilot flew flight path in the shape of a ‘raised fist’ as tribute to George Floyd
The nearly 380-mile flight, he said in a Facebook post, “took the shape of a movement symbol which I respect and support.”
‘A riot is the language of the unheard’: MLK’s powerful quote resonates amid George Floyd protests
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. said the worsening economic and social conditions that black Americans face must be condemned as equally as riots.