Shortly before President Trump took the stage on Sunday night in Henderson, Nev., for his first indoor rally in months, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak blasted the president for flouting the state’s coronavirus restrictions by packing hundreds of supporters, many without masks, into a building.The Democratic governor noted that Trump and his campaign were violating Nevada’s…
April marked the most dramatic and, some would say, dangerous phase of the Covid-19 crisis in the US. Deaths were increasing, bodies were piling up in refrigerated trucks outside hospitals in New York City and ventilators and personal protective equipment were in desperately short supply. The economy was falling off the proverbial cliff, with unemployment…
Have you ever been to Phoenix, Arizona in the summer? It’s about to come to you. A heat wave is poised to break records across the Bay Area and much of the rest of California over Labor Day Weekend, starting Saturday and peaking Sunday with temperatures forecast to exceed 110 degrees in some areas. In…
A team of researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and various institutions in Poland proposes that the SARS-CoV-2 virus acts as a microRNA “sponge” to reduce microRNA levels in ways that assist viral replication and block the host immune response. Share on PinterestNew research suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be more dangerous than other…
A pair of inmates who escaped from a Virginia jail nearly a week ago were spotted in recent days in southern Pennsylvania, officials said Saturday.The U.S. Marshals Service has been looking for Jabar Taylor, 20, and Rashad Williams, 18, since they escaped Monday from Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County.“The danger posed by these fugitives and their…
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…