(CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx, a White House coronavirus task force official, said that the protests last week in the Michigan state legislature were "devastatingly worrisome to me personally." In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Birx expressed her concern about …
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, promised “meaningful” adjustments to stay-at-home orders in the coming days as thousands of protesters gathered across the state in defiance of the lockdown. Demonstrations took place from the capital of Sacramento to San Francisco and San Diego, while large crowds turned out in Orange county’s Huntington Beach, a recent flashpoint after…
conservative groups have been encouraging resistance to stay-at-home orders across the country. It was promoted for days by Wisconsin’s conservative talk radio hosts and had thousands of R.S.V.P.s on a Facebook event page.How much public opinion in Wisconsin and elsewhere shifts toward reopening businesses, churches and schools most likely has far more to do with…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Protesters once again descended on the Virginia state capital of Richmond on Wednesday to demand Gov. Ralph Northam ease the state’s lockdown orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.The ReOpen Virginia protest is the second demonstration in Virginia against the stay-at-home orders…
Image copyright Alyson McClaran People protesting against the stay-at-home orders in Colorado were confronted by a man and woman dressed in medical uniforms - apparently issuing a silent rebuke to participants. Photos of the pair grabbed headlines and were widely shared. Now the photojournalist behind the images tells the BBC what happened that day when…
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…