Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that a new stimulus package is still needed to help the economy recover from the ravages of the coronavirus, and he committed to calling Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) right away to try to restart talks.Mnuchin’s comments came in testimony before the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, which convened…
Meredith Newman, Delaware News Journal Published 5:25 p.m. ET April 16, 2020 | Updated 8:00 p.m. ET April 16, 2020CLOSE Gov. John Carney answered questions about how the coronavirus is impacting Delaware and recent announcement to work with surrounding states to reopen. Delaware News JournalAlthough coronavirus cases rose by 61 Thursday and six more died, Delaware…
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…