U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday invoked extreme past medical prescriptions like cocaine and heroin to explain the Trump administration’s shifting guidance on whether the general public should wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s important for people to understand that once upon a time we prescribed cigarettes for asthmatics, and leeches and cocaine…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin on Tuesday told Congress they still have tools to prop up an economy reeling from the coronavirus crisis. Mr. Powell said the jury is out on whether Congress should approve more emergency spending on top of the nearly $3 trillion already out the door.…
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…