On March 19, the day the Trump administration urged Americans to stop traveling internationally, a group of students from the University of Texas at Austin returned from a spring break trip to a Mexican beach resort.As students prepare to return to many universities this fall, the case study offers a window into how easily the virus…
(CNN)A spring break trip to a Mexican beach resort last March led to 64 cases of coronavirus, but proper contact tracing, quarantine and isolation got the outbreak under control. No one got seriousl…
Plunging poll numbers, a shelved agenda and a coronavirus outbreak that ranks among the worst in the world have created sudden and deep challenges for Russian President Vladimir Putin, undercutting his carefully crafted image as a 21st-century czar reclaiming a global role for his country. With Russia’s oil export-dependent economy being ravaged by historically low…
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…