Paramilitary police officers wear face masks and goggles as they stand guard at an entrance to the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing on June 13, 2020. Greg Baker /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Baker /AFP via Getty Images Paramilitary police officers wear face masks and goggles as they stand guard at…
Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, where some nonessential businesses are allowed to reopen starting Monday after an almost three-month lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of…
President Trump has won the lockdown wars as coronavirus-related restrictions on businesses are eased across the country, so far with few signs of dire health consequences for the population. Just weeks ago, the question was whether to reopen, with the first states to press ahead accused of engaging in human sacrifice and killing their residents…
Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate scientist at Stanford UniversityProfessor Michael Levitt won the shared Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 Suggested the decision to keep people indoors was motivated by 'panic' Professor Levitt also said Neil Ferguson's modelling overestimated deaths Here’s how to help people impacted by…
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…