U.S. officials pried open the doors of the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday and took over the building shortly after Chinese officials vacated the facility on orders from the Trump Administration.Federal officials and local law enforcement surrounded the Houston facility Friday afternoon as the Chinese officials moved out of the building that the Trump Administration contends…
IT IS THE FIRST COVID-19 DEATH IN THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM SINCE JUNE 27. HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS TRYING TO TRACK ALL THE POTENTIAL CASES CONNECTED TO A HOUSE PARTY. RIGHT NOW, AT LEAST FIVE OF THE 200 PARTY GOERS HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONA VIRUS. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS THE CLUSTER IS TIED TO A PARTY…
Health officials from the "Core 4," including Jackson County, Johnson County, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and Wyandotte County, said Friday that the COVID-19 spread is increasing at an alarming rate in the Kansas City metro area and they urge residents in a letter to take seriously the safety precautions in order to help stop the…
The U.S. Consulate in Chengdu is pictured on July 23, 2020 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China.VCG | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials would not address Friday whether the Trump administration intends to comply with an order to close an American Consulate in China, a move that comes on the…
Portland authorities are calling on the government to remove fencing around a federal courthouse amid ongoing protests or face legal action, according to a recently published official letter.The “illegally” installed concrete and metal barriers “are both unpermitted and represent a hazard to the traveling public,” said a letter sent with a cease-and-desist order to a federal official Thursday. Among…
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…