Applause rang out amongst the crowd as individuals obscuring their identities proceeded to topple the statue. Shortly after the statue of Egerton Ryerson was toppled, protesters began to vandalize and beat the statue with various different objects.
The scientists said it’s a "damning fact" that the virus escaped from a laboratory.
In a run-off election Saturday, a Republican candidate managed to flip the mayorship of the Democrat-led city of McAllen, Texas.
FBI Director Christopher Wray compared recent ransomware attacks on large companies to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in an interview on Friday.
On Saturday, British PM Boris Johnson called on his fellow G7 leaders to make a commitment to see the whole world vaccinated by the end of 2022.
Dr. Peter Daszak, a leading expert on disease ecology, reportedly 26 other scientists to sign off on a letter he had written at the beginning of the pandemic last year that claims the virus had no lab origins to suggest so created "fear, rumors, and prejudice."
State Department staffers reportedly had "warned" officials not to investigate the theory that COVID-19 leaded from he Wuhan Institute of Virology over fears that the investigation would expose US funding of gain-of-function research.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt stated his support on Friday for former University of Oklahoma volleyball player Kylee McLaughlin who is suing her former university for violating her First Amendment rights.
After leading officers on a high speed chase in Florida, a man attempts to evade arrest by throwing his 2-month-old infant at the police officers chasing him.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was interviewed by conservative firebrand Dan Bongino on Fox News over the weekend and vowed that critical race theory and "any departure from accurate history" will be banned in Florida's schools.
On Sunday, the 77-year anniversary of D-Day and Canadian Armed Forces Day, a statement issued by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to mention the historic reasoning behind the day.
On the 77-year anniversary of Allied forces hitting the beaches in Normandy, anti-Trump organization Project Lincoln compared Antifa terrorists to D-Day heroes.
At least three are dead and multiple others injured after several vehicles pulled up to a Kendall, Florida, graduation party and began firing.
In a shocking photo contrasting previous years, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, which is the traditional site of an annual vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, lies empty as police force out mourners.
In the wake of Thursday's fatal shooting of Winston Boogie Smith Jr. by police, protests continued for a third night in Minneapolis.