People walk down a sidewalk on Friday in St. Simons Island, Ga. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made an order earlier in the week that forbade municipal officials from setting mandatory face-covering policies. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images On its face, the legal showdown between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over the…
Deep-rooted inequality and graft have thwarted the steps Peru took to prepare for its response to the pandemic.Relatives carrying the coffin of a suspected Covid-19 victim at a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Lima last month.Credit...Ernesto Benavides/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy Mitra Taj and Anatoly KurmanaevJune 12, 2020Updated 7:58 p.m. ETLIMA, Peru — President…
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ANALYSIS/OPINION: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has accomplished something for women that no other Democrat could: He has exposed the fraud of the #MeToo movement. Most of its high-profile supporters responded by smothering it to death with a pillow. You see, Mr. Biden’s candidacy, combined with a credible accusation…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The coronavirus lays bare the terrible dangers of globalization on steroids but will hardly summon its demise. The benefits from international exchange of goods, capital, technology and people are too compelling, and the real challenges are to manage those more effectively and forging tougher domestic measures to cope with pandemics. After World War II,…
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…