Presumed Democrat presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden says he can relate to struggling families, having been a single dad making $42,000 a year. But Mr. Biden, 77, was far from cash-strapped in the early 1970s when he was the junior senator from Delaware raising two sons after his wife and daughter died in a car…
CLOSE Following Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's "stay home" order to try and slow the spread of the coronavirus, Detroit streets were eerily empty. Detroit Free PressFord Motor Co. confirmed Sunday that it plans to recall a skeleton crew of workers Monday to start preparing its factories for reopening, even as UAW members express anxiety about their safety amid…
SEATTLE — Hundreds of coronavirus test kits UW Medicine ordered from China turned out to be contaminated. The kits were part of a more than $100,000 shipment the University of Washington bought and donated to state and county labs. But a small percentage of tests wasn't usable. The coronavirus test kits were ordered by the…
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…