President Barack Obama speaks at the online commencement event for students graduating from historically black colleges and universities that aired on social media on May 16, 2020. Screenshot/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TapYJBMgn1E Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Former President Barack Obama again criticized the way President Donald Trump’s…
LoCO Staff / Today @ 5:19 p.m. / COVID-19 and Humboldt YET AGAIN: No New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in Humboldt; Total Number of Infected Remains at 52; All But Two Recovered Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: There were no additional positive cases of COVID-19 confirmed Tuesday. The total case count remains…
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…