The NCAA's Southeastern Conference on Thursday told the state of Mississippi it could miss out on SEC championship games if it doesn't change its state flag, which includes a Confederate symbol.SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement, "It is past time for change to be made to the flag of the State of Mississippi.""Our…
Climate|Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers MostWomen exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies, a look at 32 million U.S. births found.Researchers looked at data from studies covering more than 32 million births from 2007 to 2019.Credit...Living Art Enterprises, LLC/Science SourceJune 18,…
After the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and other recent cases of fatal police encounters, the public clamor for changing the culture of policing is running up against powerful opposition in the form of police union leadership.But in cities like St. Louis, Miami and New York, some of the calls…
The symptoms for this virus just keep getting weirder.The more we learn about COVID-19, the more we find out that some seriously strange symptoms can be connected to this complicated virus... and this time, it involves your feet. There's a new symptom called "COVID toes" that may be happening to people who suffer from coronavirus, and…
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…