Cuomo: States need federal help on coronavirus New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that the state's coronavirus infection rate has decreased, but that it could increase again if the state's economy reopened too fast. "Everybody wants to reopen," Cuomo said. "The tension on reopening is: How fast can you reopen and what can you reopen without…
| April 17, 2020 10:08 AM | Updated Apr 17, 2020, 02:09 PM Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she was considering extending social distancing guidelines in response to Michigan residents who protested her stay-at-home restrictions on Wednesday. Whitmer called the protest in the state's capital “irresponsible" during a Thursday night interview with MSNBC host…
What does reopening the U.S. look like? Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced a plan to open up Texas, the second-largest state by population and one of the largest economies in the world. Despite initial resistance to a statewide stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic, Abbott's executive order shutting down non-essential businesses went into effect…
Trump unveils new coronavirus guidelines Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday evening that the "irresponsible actions" of protesters in her state this week could lead to an extension of stay-at-home orders. Demonstrators descended on the state Capitol in Lansing Wednesday after Whitmer extended Michigan's stay-at-home order through April 30. "It's that kind of irresponsible action…
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…