Officials nationwide were rethinking their efforts to slow the virus, which the nation’s top infectious disease expert said were “not working.”Tasia Markantonis, the manager of West Alabama Ice House in Houston, closed a customer’s tab at noon Friday, when Texas bars had to close again because of the coronavirus.Credit...Callaghan O'Hare for The New York TimesPublished…
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…