Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Published 9:41 p.m. ET June 24, 2020 | Updated 10:24 p.m. ET June 24, 2020CLOSE Washington state will require people to wear facial coverings in public settings, under a statewide public health order announced Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee in response to ongoing COVID-related health concerns. (June 23) AP DomesticExperts have…
An Arctic blast will sweep parts of the Northeast, bringing record-cold temperatures and even some snow to states that are coming out of a mild winter.A dusting of snow in Stowe, Vt., on Tuesday. Unseasonably cold weather is expected to move into the Northeast on Friday night.Credit...Wilson Ring/Associated PressAs if the pandemic were not enough…
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…