By JAY REEVES Associated Press | Jul 18, 2020 at 6:25 PM Registered nurses Army Lt. Col. Oswaldo Martinez, left, and Maj. Andrew Wieher, with the Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force, work to set up a nurses station inside a wing at United Memorial Medical Center, in Houston on July 16, 2020. The following day,…
President Donald Trump. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday shared a handful of social media posts questioning the expertise of his own public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, and suggesting their scientific counsel was intended to thwart his political standing ahead of November’s general election. In a burst of early morning…
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…