More than 1 million Mass. residents have now been tested for COVID-19; state reports 21 new deaths The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 216 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday.In addition, the DPH confirmed 21 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,184.Click here to…
London (CNN)More than 1 million people in the UK are estimated to have quit smoking over the past four months during the coronavirus pandemic, with younger people kicking the habit at a higher rate t…
New York (CNN)Federal prosecutors urged a judge to reject a home confinement request by Ghislaine Maxwell, the confidant of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying she is skilled at hiding and…
The largest study yet confirms that race, ethnicity, age and gender can raise a person’s chances of dying from Covid-19.A woman being taken from Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens and placed in an ambulance in April.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesJuly 8, 2020, 5:54 p.m. ETAn analysis of more than 17 million people in…
(CNN)Six months ago, no one thought Covid-19 existed in the US. The first reported case came on January 21. Within 99 days, 1 million Americans became infected. It took just 43 days after that to …
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…