A person walks by a closed Banana Republic store on June 11, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Economic worries due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continue as an additional 1.5 million people filed for first-time unemployment benefits in the past week.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesThe California Department of Public Health reported its second straight record…
California, the country's most populous state and the first to implement a state-wide lockdown to combat the coronavirus outbreak, is setting daily records for new cases this week.
Protestors argued that if there was community spread, it was likely due to police actions such as NYPD officers not wearing masks, arresting, shoving and macing protesters. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images New York City has not reported an uptick in Covid-19 cases many feared would come from weeks of mass protests against police brutality. The…
(Photo by Andrew Milligan - WPA Pool/Getty Images) This is a regularly updated story with the latest information, news and updates about the coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and beyond for the week starting June 22. (Previous daily updates: June 15-21) PHOENIX – The Arizona health department on Wednesday reported 79 new coronavirus deaths,…
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, June 23, 2020, as he travels to Arizona to view the border wall and speak at a Republican student event.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Arizona Department of Health reported nearly 3,600 additional Covid-19 cases on Tuesday,…
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…