TOPLINE Around a third of U.S. adults who contracted Covid-19 had still not returned to full health two or three weeks after testing positive, according to a study from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention published Friday, shedding light on the long-term nature of the illness. FLORIDA, USA - JULY 24: General view of…
Businesses were reopening in recent weeks and oil prices had climbed north of $40 a barrel before coronavirus infections accelerated in the state.A recent rally in oil prices had given energy executives in Texas hope that a recovery was at hand. Now they are not so sure.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York TimesJune 25, 2020HOUSTON…
People rest inside social distancing markers at Domino Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York in late May. Stay-at-home orders in New York helped to lower the state's "reproduction number," which estimates how many people one sick person could infect with the coronavirus. Michael Nagle/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Nagle/Xinhua…
Justice Buress, 4, hides under a table while demonstrating a drill at Little Explorers Learning Center in St. Louis. Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear gunfire. Carolina Hidalgo/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Carolina Hidalgo/St.…
Gail Harless figured it’d be simple enough. Go to the IRS website, plug in 2018 tax information and stimulus money would land in her checking account. All she got were errors and rising frustration as the weeks ticked by. “Will I ever get my money?” she now wonders. “The thing that annoys me,” said Harless,…
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…