JOHANNESBURG—Nearly two years after the first case was discovered, the Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday declared victory over the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, but the country’s health crisis is far from over: It is also battling a new flare-up of the disease in its northwest, along with a measles epidemic and a growing number…
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…