“Communities across this country need eviction protections and housing assistance in order to avert mass evictions and homelessness,” said Congressman Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-Ill.). “If we fail to act, recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and the looming economic crisis will be impossible.”The most recent survey by the U.S. Census showed that 23.7 million Americans had…
A bronze baseball player stands outside Coors Field in Denver, one of the stadiums idled during the coronavirus outbreak. The league and players association have agreed to league is waiting for the players' union to respond to whether it will agree to play a shortened season beginning in late July. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption toggle…
Salt Lake City’s police chief and public officials elsewhere have suggested that the activists turning peaceful protests into destructive demonstrations have been “outsiders” taking advantage of the rallies. In Utah’s capital, at least, there’s little evidence so far to support that. Only two of those arrested in Saturday’s protests at Washington Square, which surrounds City…
“Everybody hopes for seasonality” when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, Peter Juni of the University of Toronto acknowledged. Maybe, just maybe, the summer will diminish the spread of Covid-19.But a new study, by Dr. Juni, an epidemiologist, and his colleagues in Canada and Switzerland, offers very little encouragement for warm-weather worshipers. In countries around…
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…