This Library of Congress photo shows a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via AP)Many colleges and universities are making plans for in-person classes in the fall, restaurants and bars and open and people are out interacting…
After years of free-flowing spending that's driven his liberal agenda through a record bull market, the Democratic mayor is scrambling as the locked down, virus-ravaged city's shortfall surged $1.6 billion over the past month alone. De Blasio said he wants the option to borrow his way out of the hole — barring a multi-billion-dollar coronavirus…
Thousands of armed police have flooded the streets of Hong Kong in an unprecedented show of force to prevent protests against a law criminalising ridicule of Chinas national anthem. At lunchtime ral…
Tokyo — New lighting technology being pioneered in the U.S. and Japan may help to make riding the subway, going to school or moving through other public spaces as safe as a walk around the living room, despite the threat of coronaviruses and other pathogens. The idea is to suffuse indoor areas with continuous, low doses…
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…