Show captionMissouri Governor Mike Parson, left, visits a hardware store in May. Photograph: David A Lieb/APCoronavirus outbreakExperts predict an increase in deaths across the region, made significantly worse by lawmakers who question the value of face coveringsThree months ago, the Republican governor of Missouri chose not to wear a mask in a shop, because he…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Anthony Fauci’s embarrassing face-plant on Opening Day at Nationals Park was not because he threw a crazy sidewinder rainbow that looked more like a bad throw toward first base than a ceremonial first pitch towards home plate. To be sure, that was embarrassing. His weak performance on the mound gave a bad name to…
TOPLINE Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and a heated national debate surrounding the efficacy of remote learning, several large U.S. school districts have already announced that they will not reopen for any in-person instruction at the start of the upcoming academic year, with the latest being Prince George's County in Maryland. Tunisian highschool students…
Streamed live 7 hours agoReform, defund, or dismantle? The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last month is raising big questions about how to improve law enforcement in the United States.Public support for police reform has been growing in recent years, but meaningful change has proved elusive - and what that…
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…