What does reopening the U.S. look like? Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced a plan to open up Texas, the second-largest state by population and one of the largest economies in the world. Despite initial resistance to a statewide stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic, Abbott's executive order shutting down non-essential businesses went into effect…
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…