Humans aren’t the only ones hankering for the days they could dine out at their cities’ restaurants: Some rats that miss feasting on the scraps are becoming increasingly brazen to find new food sources, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday.Amid stay-home restrictions set across the country to battle the spread of the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A $2.19 coronavirus surcharge from a restaurant in Missouri caused a backlash on social media this month.“Scuse me … what? A covid surcharge…?” someone tweeted of a Kiko Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Lounge patron's receipt showing a “covid 19 surcharge.”The tweet…
An employee inside a restaurant waits for customers arriving for pickup in Alhambra, California on May 7, 2020.Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that restaurants in select counties can reopen on-site dining under specific restrictions. He said the state is now in its second stage of reopening, which means…
Half of San Francisco restaurants could close permanently because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to an estimate from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. Laurie Thomas, the association’s executive director, emphasized that the figure was highly uncertain. “Let’s hope that I’m wrong,” she said, adding that the association is conducting further research to get a clearer…
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…