Image copyright AFP/Getty Images A California utility has pleaded guilty to the deaths of 84 people in a wildfire, the deadliest US corporate crime ever successfully prosecuted.Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) admitted the 2018 Camp Fire, the state's deadliest and most destructive, was caused by its faulty equipment.In the court hearing, a judge read the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted Monday that coronavirus projections from experts were all wrong -- and he's getting out of the business of speculating because of it.Cuomo said he can't predict when the hospitalization and death rate numbers will drop to the necessary threshold required for…
“Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference.” By JERUSALEM POST STAFF MAY 24, 2020 20:24 A policeman wearing a mask walks past a quarantine notice about the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China at an…
May 24, 2020 | 9:40am Enlarge Image Wuhan Institute of Virology Hector Retamal/Getty Images The Chinese lab eyed as a potential source of COVID-19 has admitted having three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site — but insisted none are the source of the global pandemic. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has since 2004 “isolated and obtained…
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…