CLOSE Going back to school amid COVID-19 outbreaks means uncertainty and fear for students and teachers, but staying home presents problems too. USA TODAYNew York City's schools will delay in-person classes until Sept. 21, averting the threat of a teacher strike — and putting the nation's largest school system on track to be the only major urban district to…
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…