KAWASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Two paramedics jump out the back of an idling ambulance with Tokyo plates, carefully lowering an elderly woman on a stretcher. The patient, her small face covered with an oxygen mask, disappears behind St. Marianna’s automatic doors. Medical workers work at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients…
Even though North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un popped up at a fertilizer plant on Friday, speculation has been rampant about his health and the stability of the notoriously unstable nuclear-armed country.Intelligence officials from Texas to Taiwan weighed in on the health of Pyongyang's basketball-loving leader, with some speculating he was in a vegetative state after…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. policy of seeking total and “verified denuclearization” of North Korea won’t change if the isolated nation’s young dictator, Kim Jong-un, is replaced by a new leader anytime soon. Mr. Pompeo made the assertion at a press conference Wednesday as rumors that Mr. Kim’s may be gravely ill…
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…