And the award for the most ill-conceived escape plan of all time goes to... A group of California inmates were caught on surveillance video trying to intentionally infect themselves with coronavirus by sniffing a mask and drinking from the same water bottle, authorities said Monday. The “deeply disturbing” behavior at a Los Angeles County jail…
A Colorado restaurant had its license indefinitely suspended after opening its dining room on Mother’s Day to large crowds, defying statewide orders.Video shows large groups eating at C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen, many not appearing to wear masks.Every seat was filled in the restaurant in Castle Rock, 30 minutes south of Denver, according to Colorado…
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the big social platforms have generally been quicker than usual to intervene in the spread of misinformation. We’ve seen Facebook, Google, and Twitter add various labels, warnings, and links to high-quality news sources and public health organizations. And for the most part, the dumbest theories about the novel coronavirus have…
Participants at a food supply roundtable convened by Vice President Mike Pence in Iowa on Friday removed their face masks before Pence arrived, according to video from the event posted online.
An off-duty state patrol officer rescued a drowning hiker using a rope and a stick this weekend after he became trapped in a whirlpool in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.Video of the incident, posted by the Madera County Sheriff's Office, showed the 24-year-old Fresno man struggling to grab the line in swift-moving water…
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…