Bear in mind that the U.S. is averaging around 900 deaths or so on weekdays lately. If the high end of these estimates bears out, the protests will have caused the daily national death toll to more than double.Trevor Bedford is the Seattle researcher who used genomic analysis early on in the pandemic to detect…
By Laurel Mallory | May 23, 2020 at 3:48 PM EDT - Updated May 23 at 6:10 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has announced 248 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and 6 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have…
Bexar County coronavirus case count hits 2,213 and the death toll stays at 63 2 new walk-up testing sites for coronavirus open in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO – After giving Metro Health workers a rare weekend off since the coronavirus pandemic began, San Antonio officials reported 93 new COVID-19 cases over the past three days.Twenty-three…
CLOSE Police announced the arrests of Gregory and Travis McMichael in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery following a storm of public outcry. USA TODAYSurveillance video recorded minutes before the slaying of a jogger that has sent ripples of shock across the nation proves the Georgia man was not involved in a crime, attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery's family say. An individual believed to…
GBI agents in the Ahmaud Arbery murder investigation are reviewing additional video from the Glynn County neighborhood where he was shot to death as they piece together the minutes before the fatal confrontation that has drawn national attention to Georgia and its justice system.Investigators are reviewing the tape, recorded minutes before the Feb. 23 killing,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…