An analysis of COVID-19 testing in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area of the United States found that Latinx people were around three times as likely to test positive, compared with any other ethnic or racial group.Share on PinterestLatinx communities in the US may be hit harder by the pandemic, new research suggests. The researchers who carried…
Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. scientific journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. It possesses "all the essential hallmarks of being highly…
The Trump campaign on Tuesday hit Joseph R. Biden for his long history of making offensive racial remarks, trying to expand a rift between the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Black voters. The campaign dug up Mr. Biden’s past remarks about young Black men being “predators” during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1990s, his…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Former Marine pilot Amy McGrath overcame a bumpier-than-expected Kentucky primary to win the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination Tuesday, fending off progressive Charles Booker to set up a bruising, big-spending showdown with Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Voting ended June 23, but it took a week until McGrath could be declared…