Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Inmates allegedly attacked a Florida Department of Corrections officer at a state prison Sunday afternoon before other prisoners and officers were able to rescue him, a report said. The officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries. FLORIDA PROTESTER ENCASES HANDS IN CONCRETE NEAR GOVERNOR’S MANSION, CALLS TO ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Tens of millions of people in the South are facing a severe weather threat one week after tornadoes killed at least 36 people across the region. The National Weather Services’ Storm Prediction Center said tornadoes and severe thunderstorms are expected from late Sunday morning into the overnight hours. “Another Sunday that we have some ...

On this day, April 19 … 1995: A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh, who prosecutors said planned the attack as revenge for the Waco siege of two years earlier, would be convicted of federal murder charges and executed in 2001.) Also on this day: 1775: The ...

The American West may be entering into a “megadrought” worse than any in the historical record, a new climate study from Columbia University suggested. With the region suffering a prolonged string of dry years starting in 2000, scientists have been warning for years that climate change may be pushing toward a longer-term drought. While there have been some wet years — like ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here. Crowds returned to beaches in Jacksonville Friday after Florida’s governor gave the green light for some to reopen if done safely – as the state confirmed a spike in its coronavirus cases. Cheers could be heard at 5 p.m. when barriers to Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A protest of more than 200 demonstrators broke out in Southern California on Friday against the state’s stay-at-home-orders in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, according to reports. The action in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, was similar to others staged this week in ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.  A Tennessee Uber driver raised nearly $12,000 and used the money to buy food from local restaurants that are struggling during the coronavirus outbreak, then delivered the meals to hospital workers on the front lines. Tammy Rivera of Memphis told Fox News on Friday that ...

Ford and GE have signed a $336 million contract with the federal government to build ventilators for the coronavirus fight. The order comes under the terms of the Defense Production Act (DPA) and calls for 50,000 units to be delivered by July 13, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Ford and GE announced in March that they ...