A 30-year-old Brooklyn charter school teacher died of coronavirus complications after a month-long battle — in which she was turned away for testing twice, according to new reports. Rana Zoe Mungin — known as Zoe — who tutored sixth-grade students in social studies at Ascend Academy in East New York, one of the areas hardest…
CLOSEIn 1918, the world faced off against a deadly opponent: the Spanish Flu, viewed today as the most severe pandemic in recent history. It infected an estimated 500 million people globally and killed approximately 50 million.Just over 100 years later, the world is battling a pandemic again as the coronavirus spreads. While things have greatly changed in terms…
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…