UPDATE (12:41 p.m. PT) —The Oregon Health Authority reported 142 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in the state Friday. The state’s total number of known positive and presumptive cases is 5,377. The bulk of these new cases continue to mostly stem from the Portland metro area with 36 cases in Multnomah County and 21 cases…
Public health officials in Santa Clara County, California, announced on Tuesday that two individuals had died from COVID-19 earlier than what was previously believed to be the first death of a COVID-19 patient. According to the announcement, Santa Clara’s medical examiner-coroner discovered that the two people had died at home on February 6 and February…
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…