New York TodayMay 22, 2020, 5:46 a.m. ET [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.]It’s Friday. We’re off on Monday for Memorial Day, but we’ll be back on Tuesday. Weather: Some sun early, but showers arrive in the evening; high in the low 70s. The holiday weekend starts wet but gets…
With the presidential election less than six months away, recent national polls show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a lead over President Donald Trump.According to a new Quinnipiac University poll, 50 percent of voters said they would vote for Biden if the election were today, while 39 percent favored Trump. The former vice president's…
After facing weeks of criticism for not being transparent with data about the coronavirus, state officials on Wednesday acknowledged that a test type that does not measure active cases inflated published test counts by 57,000, or roughly 14% of total tests to date. For weeks now, the Department of Public Health has included antibody tests,…
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…