Fears have arisen that bubonic plague could spread into China after its bordering country Mongolia reports its third victim who died of the Black Death this year.A 38-year-old man had died from the plague on Monday in Mongolia's western Zavkhan province after eating marmot meat last month, said the local authorities.It comes as China's Inner…
Show captionProtesters stand on a road during a march against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 27 August. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty ImagesJacob BlakeConcern grows that president’s planned visit could agitate largely peaceful protests after the police shooting of Jacob BlakeTom Lutz in New York and agenciesConcern was growing on Sunday that a…
Mobile County saw numbers jump during lockdown, passing other Alabama counties, leading Alabama in coronavirus cases and deaths. But the outbreak seemed to level out in Mobile, at least relative to recent surges in Montgomery and now Jefferson counties. But now Mobile health officials are worried the numbers are beginning to climb again and city…
Fears are growing about the potential for a "second wave" of COVID-19, with some countries seeing a surge in new infections. As Redmond Shannon explains, the World Health Organization has just reported the worst single-day spike of new cases worldwide since the outbreak began. Jennifer Johnson looks at how the White House is getting ready…
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…