Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.China is rejecting calls by U.S. officials to give international inspectors access to labs to make sure dangerous pathogens similar to the coronavirus are not being released accidentally.The U.S. is conducting an investigation into whether the virus somehow escaped from a lab in…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry mocked attempts to sue the country’s government and ruling Communist Party over the coronavirus, saying health officials have been forthcoming with details of the disease throughout the crisis. Spokesman Geng Shuang said the U.S. has “unfettered access” to information about COVID-19, and said China has been praised by the international community…
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…