Story by Holly Yan, CNNAnimations by Jessi Esparza, CNN Updated 7:29 AM ET, Fri May 1, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. (CNN)It's a popular argument heard at protests denouncing state shutdowns,…
About a week after U.S. Marshals transferred Andrea Circle Bear from a jail in South Dakota to a federal prison in Fort Worth, the pregnant inmate was sent to a nearby hospital with a high fever.On March 28, doctors sent Circle Bear, who was serving a two-year sentence on a drug-related charge, back to Federal…
Coronavirus can be destroyed by ultraviolet rays from the sun, a top U.S. scientist announced at a briefing from the White House coronavirus task force Thursday. William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, said in a press briefing that sunlight has a significant impact on the pathogen."Our most…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A grief-stricken probationary New York City firefighter has reported the death of his infant daughter from the coronavirus, according to reports.Jay-Natalie La Santa died Monday in the Bronx. She would have been 5 months old next week. Dad Jerel La Santa,…
The New Atlantis produced a chart that starkly portrays just how quickly COVID-19 became one of the leading causes of death in the United States:Despite the rapidity with which the coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of Americans, some on the right have continued to argue that the pandemic will end up being no more…
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…