CLOSE Some states are moving slowly towards reopening their economies while others are moving more quickly to reopen. USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO – California was the first state in the U.S. to issue a stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus and it seems determined to be the last one to open up.That was likely the impression…
Thousands of U.S. and Polish troops will be on maneuvers next month in the first large-scale war games in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic began. Exercise Allied Spirit, a joint U.S.-Polish undertaking, will be held June 5-19 at the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, located about 150 miles northeast of Berlin in eastern Poland. The operation had…
Dr. Veena Jones was on her morning commute from her home in Menlo Park to her office at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto when she learned of lab test results that might have caused her to swerve off on El Camino Real if she hadn’t already been driving cautiously in the slow lane.…
On Friday, U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas received his first haircut in three months from Shelley Luther, the owner of Salon Á la Mode in North Texas, who was jailed for violating the state's stay-at-home order by operating her business in defiance of court restraining order.Luther was released early from her seven-day jail…
A 4-year-old with an underlying medical condition is the first child in New Jersey to die from complications related to the coronavirus, state officials announced Friday.Gov. Phil Murphy said during his daily press briefing in Trenton the death is the state’s first COVID-19 fatality of someone under the age of 18.“We’ve lost another blessed life,”…
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…