The World Health Organization’s top official on Monday endorsed a review of the agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic “at the earliest appropriate moment,” yielding to pressure from the U.S.-led campaign to call out WHO and China for their early responses to the global health crisis. Calls have been mounting for a thorough probe into…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Facing global scrutiny and the potential loss of hundreds of millions in funding from the United States, the embattled leader of the World Health Organization said Wednesday his performance in combatting the coronavirus pandemic will be assessed “in due course.”Tedros…
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…