CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nearly 4 million people worldwide -- including more than 1.3 million people in the United States – have been infected with the new coronavirus, and the number of deaths from the outbreak continues to rise. Officials are attempting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. as hospitals manage unprecedented patient surges.
Georgia Bureau of Investigations Director Vic Reynolds on Friday took a veiled swipe at the local probe into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger who was allegedly murdered by a white father and son more than two months ago."I can't answer what another agency did or didn't see but I can tell…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it is sending $631 million to state and local health departments to increase their capacity to do contact tracing and testing for the novel coronavirus — a fraction of what many officials say they need to safely restart their economies.State and local health officials are…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.State and local governments across the country are expecting to lay off workers in the near future, lamenting that a new stimulus bill is not providing them with additional funds.Governors and Washington Democrats had called for federal aid to states…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 2.4 million people worldwide -- including more than 760,000 people in the United States – have been infected with the new coronavirus, and the number of deaths from the outbreak continues to rise. Officials are attempting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. as hospitals manage unprecedented patient surges.
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…