Recent polls have the prime minister’s approval ratings topping 80 or 90 percent. But the economic devastation from the coronavirus has yet to be reckoned with.Watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s televised address in Amritsar, India, on Tuesday.Credit...Raminder Pal Singh/EPA, via ShutterstockMay 16, 2020Updated 1:14 a.m. ETNEW DELHI — Just before the coronavirus arrived in India,…
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…