A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 18, 2019.ReutersMicrosoft on Sunday confirmed that it has held talks with Chinese technology company ByteDance to acquire its trendy social app TikTok in the…
2 other cases being monitoredDETROIT – Michigan has confirmed its first case of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 2020, a rare condition that attacks the nervous system, specifically in children.The Michigan Department of Health and Human Service (MDHHS) confirmed the first case in a child in Macomb County. Two others possible cases are being monitored.As…
Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press Published 6:43 p.m. ET July 25, 2020 The state health department reported an additional 437 coronavirus cases Saturday, bringing the state total to 76,978.Michigan's COVID-19 death toll actually decreased Saturday. Sixteen previously reported deaths were removed as part of a review by the state, per the Michigan.gov website.During a data…
ICE, a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security, has issued guidelines preventing newly enrolled international students from studying in the U.S. if their colleges are operating only online this fall. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images ICE, a federal law enforcement agency under…
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) -On Wednesday, the state said 712 tests came back positive out of the total 14,780 test results, which equals 4.8%. Another 14,068 results were negative.This comes one day after the state broke a single day record for tests which came back positive for the virus, at 1,117.54 out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties…
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…