Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.President Trump on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the coronavirus pandemic is worse than the Spanish flu pandemic at the end of World War I that killed at least 50 million people, including about 675,000 in the United States.Speaking at…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that state and local bailout money from the federal government could hinge on whether the immigration policies of the individual governments seeking relief align with Trump administration priorities. From skyrocketing health care expenses to the costs of an unprecedented economic shutdown, the coronavirus has imperiled state and local budgets…
The Chinese government has suggested that President Donald Trump's administration might be hiding something about its response to the coronavirus crisis, as both Washington, D.C. and Beijing trade accusations and disinformation while the pandemic continues to spread.The Chinese foreign ministry sent a tweet on Monday suggesting there were "growing doubts over the US government's handling…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTop US doctor says heat and light is not a treatment for Covid-19 US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with…
Another day, another potentially revised timeline in the U.S. chapter of this pandemic. The latest one comes from a Northeastern University estimate of how the coronavirus began spreading undetected in several major American cities in February.As the New York Times reports today, the Northeastern model is an inherently inexact way of attempting to understand how…
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…