A NASA-funded scientist has been charged with fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors announced Monday, saying he was working as a Chinese researcher at the same time he was taking U.S. government money. The FBI says Zhengdong Cheng hid his Chinese associations, including being part of China’s Thousands Talents Program that seeks to illicitly siphon U.S.…
Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY Published 2:38 p.m. ET July 2, 2020 | Updated 2:48 p.m. ET July 2, 2020CLOSE Top health officials faced tough questions on Capitol Hill about a vaccine for the coronavirus and the need for transparency in the process. (June 30) AP DomesticSenators on Thursday grilled federal health officials on the logistics, cost…
Bear in mind that the U.S. is averaging around 900 deaths or so on weekdays lately. If the high end of these estimates bears out, the protests will have caused the daily national death toll to more than double.Trevor Bedford is the Seattle researcher who used genomic analysis early on in the pandemic to detect…
May 27, 2020 | 9:12am | Updated May 27, 2020 | 9:34am Nikolai Petrovsky Flinders University The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. AFP via Getty Images Up Next You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from... The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is “almost perfectly human adapted” — lending credence to…
A leading scientist has reportedly called for a more rapid exit from lockdown. (Picture: PA)A leading scientist has called for lockdown rules to be loosened more quickly, saying the coronavirus pandemic has already infected half of Britain’s population and is “on its way out”.Prominent Oxford epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta told unherd.com that the UK had…
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…