CONNECTICUT — Gov. Ned Lamont announced some changes and updates to the state's quarantine travel advisory. On June 24, the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced a mandatory 14-day quarantine for travelers coming into the region from states with high rates of coronavirus infections. But late this week, Lamont amended the advisory…
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, his staff and healthcare experts have been discussing a mask order for more than a week. | AP Photo Jacksonville, where the Republican National Convention is slated to be held in August, is planning to institute a city-wide mask order to stem the spread of coronavirus, city hall sources tell POLITICO.…
President Trump on Monday is expected to sign an executive order that significantly expands current immigration restrictions to include a number of guest-worker programs, including the H-1B visa -- an order the administration says will put Americans first for jobs as the economy emerges from coronavirus lockdowns.Trump previously signed an order in April that restricted some…
The order to inform Texans that “all slaves are free” was found in a Union Army records book in the National Archives in Washington on Thursday.“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” the order says.Credit...National ArchivesJune 19, 2020, 5:28…
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…