This spring, death rates rivaled those seen during the country’s deadliest pandemic, a new study finds. “What 1918 looked like is basically this.”A temporary morgue outside New York City’s medical examiner’s office in April.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York TimesAug. 13, 2020Updated 1:13 p.m. ETThe 1918 influenza pandemic is the deadliest in modern history, claiming an estimated…
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an increase of hostility in the United States toward Asian Americans.Share on PinterestThe current pandemic highlights that immigrant minorities have experienced hate crimes due to an infectious disease.According to a new study, the arrival of COVID-19 has brought with it a resurgence of hate crimes against Asian Americans. Angela Gover,…
President Trump is deploying 100 federal agents to Chicago to help combat rising rates of some crimes – a move that marks an expansion of the White House’s intervention into local law enforcement as Trump continues to position himself as the “law and order” president.The "surge" of agents announced on Wednesday to Chicago and other…
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…