New York|N.Y. Will Impose Quarantine on Visitors From States With Big OutbreaksNew Jersey and Connecticut will also require visitors to quarantine for two weeks. The rule reflects a stark shift in the course of the outbreak.The travel restrictions, which also cover New Jersey and Connecticut, were announced by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York…
HONG KONG — China's Communist Party will impose a sweeping national security law in Hong Kong by fiat during the annual meeting of its top political body, officials said Thursday, criminalizing "foreign interference" along with secessionist activities and subversion of state power.The move is the boldest yet from Beijing to undercut Hong Kong’s autonomy and…
The sons of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán imposed a curfew on the residents of a town under their cartel’s control due to the coronavirus, according to a report.Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán threatened violators with beatings with boards, arrests or fines, the Yucatan Times reported.“This is no game, we’re not playing,” a…
Donald Trump has been accused of “xenophobic scapegoating” after he announced he will order a temporary ban on immigration into the US to combat the coronavirus pandemic. There were no other details on the timing or scope of the president’s proposed executive order and no official policy statement from the White House. Instead there was…
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…