ANALYSIS/OPINION: The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States. The NFL’s megaprofits dwarf those of other professional sports in the U.S. The Super Bowl, not the World Series, is America’s national sports event.…
A hallway leads to a makeshift isolation ward for COVID-19 patients. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR A hallway leads to a makeshift isolation ward for COVID-19 patients. Kirk Siegler/NPR In the Idaho mountain town of Grangeville, population 3,200, signs in windows on Main Street advertise that Border Days "is on." The annual…
U.S.-China relations have hit a new low point as Washington pins blame for the global COVID-19 outbreak on Beijing, China’s top diplomat said Sunday, and the two countries are now on “the brink of a new Cold War” that could have devastating ripple effects for the entire world. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing,…
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…