Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAyesha Orlanda had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May. A senior nurse who had been in a coma for 40 days with coronavirus has been given an emotional send-off from hospital by her colleagues.Ayesha Orlanda, 52, a senior sister at Bradford…
Costco has quietly announced it will be reducing its special hours for senior shoppers to have nearly exclusive access to the warehouse club during the coronavirus pandemic, slashing the designated morning hours to twice a week.The superstore will soon scale back its special operating times for members ages 60 and up, Costco recently revealed on…
The number of Asian and Hispanic Americans continues to surge, but nobody’s booming like the Baby Boomers. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the 65-and-older population grew in the last decade by a whopping 13.8 million people, or 34.2%, driving up the national median age from 37.2 years in 2010 to 38.4 years in 2019.…
Former and current city employees marching across Brooklyn Bridge. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images NEW YORK — A senior official in the de Blasio administration has left the mayor's office over his handling of recent protests across the city — the first departure of a high-ranking aide since the start of the demonstrations demanding police reform.…
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…