Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.The United States has entered a “new phase” of the coronavirus pandemic, Deborah Birx, the physician overseeing the White House…
As the city entered Phase 2 of reopening, subway cars and sidewalks were relatively empty as many companies kept workers home.Workers at an office tower in Midtown Manhattan had their temperatures taken before they entered the building on Monday.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York TimesJune 22, 2020Updated 5:08 p.m. ETEven as offices across New York City were…
The coronavirus pandemic has entered a "new and dangerous phase" as daily Covid-19 cases hit record highs, the World Health Organization warned Friday.The number of new cases reported Thursday "were the most in a single day so far" at 150,000, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference from the agency's Geneva headquarters. Almost half…
Bone-chilling footage was recorded last Friday of an intruder quietly standing over a teenage girl asleep inside her Kansas home.Aniyah Robinson, 15, was asleep in bed, as home surveillance video captured a hooded suspect -- who is currently at large -- silently entering the home and lurking over her around 2:30 a.m.When she woke up, the teenage…
Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has entered a “modified quarantine” after coming into contact with a White House staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus, according to CNN. Dr Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, told the news organisation he would work…
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…