ORLANDO, Fla. — See our in-depth coverage below: Our in-depth coverage of the coronavirus in Central Florida continues. Jury trials remain on hold Jury trials in Florida have been on hold since mid-March. Those accused are waiting to see their day in court, and victims and their families are waiting for someone to be brought…
China reported to the World Health Organization on New Year’s Eve that it was facing a novel coronavirus. Three weeks later, the first mention of the coronavirus was made on the floor of one of the chambers of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, interrupted Democrats’ impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Jan.…
When Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in a September 2018 interview with The Washington Post, prominent Democrats and media organizations rushed to the story -- demanding answers and, in many cases, the end of Kavanaugh's career.In the weeks after Tara Reade publicly charged in a podcast released March 25 that…
Two people with the coronavirus died in California as much as three weeks before the U.S. reported its first death from the disease in late February — a gap that a top health official said Wednesday may have led to delays in issuing stay-at-home orders in the nation’s most populous state. Dr. Sara Cody, health…
Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Updated at 11:15 a.m. With near-daily task force briefings, President Trump has delivered an ever-evolving message to the American public about the coronavirus pandemic. The constant is the inconsistency. At times he has been in sync with the public health experts advising him…
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…