New Jerseyans will not be eating inside restaurants this week after all. Gov. Murphy halted a plan to open indoor dining based on “knucklehead behavior” over...
Economy|U.S. Halts High-Tech Exports to Hong Kong Over Security ConcernsThe Trump administration’s new restrictions come in response to a new national security law that will extend China’s influence over Hong Kong.The Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York TimesJune 29, 2020Updated 7:50 p.m. ETWASHINGTON — The Trump administration placed…
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis (NOVN.S) is halting its trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) against COVID-19 after struggling to find participants, it said on Friday, as data emerged from other studies raising doubts about its efficacy. FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist displays a box of Hydroxychloroquine at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la…
The World Health Organization announced Monday that it's suspending a trial of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19, saying fears of the drug's potential danger are is causing it to "err on the side of caution."The medication, best known for use against malaria and autoimmune disorders, has been touted as a possible answer to COVID-19 by President…
WHO has praised China for its eagerness towards the prospect of scientific inquiries into determining the origins of COVID-19. The number of coronavirus cases in Russia has climbed to 353,427, with 8,946 new infections in the past 24 hours. The United States has barred arrivals from Brazil, the country with the second-highest number of cases in the…
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…