CLOSE President Donald Trump has declared that meatpacking plants are "critical infrastructure" in order to keep them open during coronavirus. WochitFoodborne illness investigations have slowed and food recalls have plummeted to their lowest levels in years because of disruptions in America's multi-layered food safety system caused by the novel coronavirus, a USA TODAY investigation found.The pandemic…
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…