Reports suggest strategy to bypass results in key states under discussion, but legal experts say such an effort is likely to fail Trump at the White House on Thursday. The US constitution gives state legislatures the authority to appoint the 538 electors to the electoral college who ultimately elect the president. Photograph: Erin Scott/EPA Donald…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance says measures must be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19 The UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned.Sir Patrick Vallance said that would be expected to…
The nation’s testing efforts will be further overwhelmed once influenza, R.S.V. and other seasonal viruses arrive.Doctors won’t be able to diagnose patients on a hunch. “The flu season is a bit of a ticking time bomb,” said one expert. “We are all waiting and trying to prepare as best we can.”Credit...Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Presse —…
Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will move back to the CDC under a "revolutionary new data system" the agency is developing. Andrew DeMillo/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew DeMillo/AP Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this…
New research in animals has identified a microRNA that appears to modulate the growth of hair.Share on PinterestEarly research suggests that microRNA may be the future of hair regrowth treatments.The study, which appears in the journal Science Advances, may lay the groundwork for future hair regrowth treatments that are more effective and less invasive than…
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…