The decree came after a Turkish court revoked the site’s 80-year-old status as a museum and is likely to provoke an international furor.The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul in April.Credit...Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York TimesJuly 10, 2020Updated 11:19 a.m. ETISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree Friday ordering Hagia Sophia to be opened…
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…