Bronx Zoo apologizes for racist past – including caging man

The organization that runs New York’s Bronx Zoo has issued an apology over its racist past, including when it caged an African man in the monkey house for three days in 1906. The apology came Wednesday after the Wildlife Conservation Society, or WCS, had begun digging into the zoo’s past for an upcoming 125th anniversary, … Read more

Trump threatens to send National Guard to Portland if violent protests continue

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell Portland protests in an apparent attempt to save face hours after he backed down and agreed to remove federal troops from the city.  Trump once again decried ‘agitators and anarchists’ in Portland during an address in Midland, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon following the … Read more

Coronavirus US: Black and Hispanic patients’ lung damage worse

Black and Hispanic coronavirus patients had lung damage that was 1.5 times worse than the infection’s attacks on white Americans, X-rays reveal Researchers looked at chest X-rays of 326 patients hospitalized with coronavirus between March 27 and April 10 Patients were given mRALE scores based on how severely the disease had impacted their lungs White patients … Read more