Plans put forward by Donald Trump and his education secretary to reopen America’s schools in the fall are “reckless” and could result in many teachers leaving the profession, the president of one of the country’s biggest teaching unions has warned. The new school year is just weeks away in the “sun belt”, the region which…
Donald Trump has revealed he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, an anti-malaria treatment the Food and Drug Administration has warned against on the grounds that it can cause fatal heart conditions in some cases. The president was roundly criticised over the admission, with House speaker Nancy Pelosi warning that it places “morbidly obese”…
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…