It is political theater at its most flagrant.The ongoing rivalry between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo has been on full public display throughout the crises of 2020, but their rocky relationship dates back decades -- going back to the nineties when they were Democratic allies before things soured in recent years.Last…
Fearing a repeat of the spike in coronavirus cases that followed Memorial Day, public health experts are begging caution this July Fourth — worried that if Americans attend large gatherings without masks, the already record-breaking number of cases in this country could continue to grow.On Thursday, the U.S. confirmed more than 55,000 new cases of…
(CNN)Even after widespread lockdowns, the United States has failed to stomp out the coronavirus and again finds itself in a rapid surge of cases. Public health experts place particular blame on a lac…
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…