By The Associated PressApril 16, 2020 GMTIs it safe to open mail and packages during the pandemic? There is no evidence that COVID-19 is spreading through mail or parcels, according to the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of it is spread from droplets produced when an infected person…
BANGKOK (AP) — Health concerns were on artist Danai Ussama’s mind when he returned to Thailand last month from a trip to Spain. He noticed that he and his fellow passengers did not go through medical checks after arriving at Bangkok’s airport, and thought it worth noting on his Facebook page.The airport authorities denied it,…
Austin Hollinger has been dealing with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder for several years, ever since he was bullied at school. Now 19, he relies a lot on his friends to help him feel better day to day. Hollinger is disabled and doesn’t drive, so his friends would often come to him. But with Alabama,…
It’s not every day that political scientists get a chance to observe a real-world, real-time experiment on how governments around the globe handle the same, all-consuming crisis. Political science has long been criticized as an academic field divorced from the messy realities of statecraft, but scholars of comparative government say they have been handed a…
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…