Here are five things you must know for Friday, April 17:1. -- Stock Futures Jump on Hopes for Coronavirus TreatmentStock futures rose sharply Friday on promising results of a drug to treat patients with the deadly Covid-19 disease and after President Donald Trump outlined guidelines for reopening the U.S. economy.Contracts linked to the Dow Jones…
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…