NEW YORK (Reuters) - The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States approached 31,000 on Wednesday as governors began cautiously preparing Americans for a post-virus life that would likely include public face coverings as the “new normal.” A food delivery driver cycles on an empty road as the global outbreak of the…
April 15, 2020 | 7:31pm | Updated April 15, 2020 | 8:13pm This guy ought to keep his eye on the speedometer, not the thermometer. A New Jersey man who was clocked going nearly twice the speed limit on a highway tried to dodge a trip to jail by claiming he had come down with…
Four key cities across the United States have been following stay-at-home orders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What’s going on: A new report from the CDC suggests four new cities have embraced stay-at-home orders more than others. The four cities include: New York City Seattle New Orleans San Francisco These cities…
reports started to emerge that a coronavirus that specialists had never before seen in humans had begun to spread among the population of Wuhan, a large city in the Chinese province of Hubei.Since then, the virus has spread to other countries, both in and outside Asia, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare this…
As the coronavirus continues to make the news, a host of untruths has surrounded the topic. In this special feature, we address some of these myths and conspiracies.This article was updated on April 6, 2020The novel coronavirus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, has spread from Wuhan, China, to every continent on Earth except Antarctica.The World Health…
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…