“We’re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York outbreak,” former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday, during an interview with “Face the Nation” on CBS.Here are some significant developments:As the United States reported 48,640 new covid-19 cases on Sunday, Arizona and Nevada reported their…
Primary election day in Georgia arrived Tuesday as voters braced for lines and social distancing at the polls. It will be a unique election held amid the coronavirus pandemic. Here are minute-by-minute updates on Tuesday’s election from AJC reporters and photographers on the scene: 5:20 p.m. update: Two Gwinnett County precincts will be open past 7…
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…