6.15pm EDT 18:15 US coronavirus summary 5.57pm EDT 17:57 In an update of Oliver Laughland’s earlier story, Dr Deborah Birx has cautioned that social distancing measures are likely to stay in place throughout the summer: In a later appearance on NBC News, Birx also responded to a suggestion from the vice-president, Mike Pence, in which…
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…