Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of the country’s largest Republican-controlled state, is facing increasing pressure over his decision to open the economy.Gov. Greg Abbott addresses a news conference at the State Capitol in Austin about the coronavirus pandemic Monday.Credit...Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated PressJune 24, 2020Updated 8:57 p.m. ETHOUSTON — The coronavirus has been…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened — a disturbing generational shift that not only puts them in greater peril than many realize but poses an even bigger danger to older people who cross their paths.In Oxford,…
What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases?In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.Many public health experts, however, suggest it’s no time to celebrate. About 120,000…
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The agency is asking young people to take the virus seriously after seeing an increase in cases of people under 30. COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's health agency is reporting over a new daily record of over 1,000 new virus cases, the first time the daily total has crossed that threshold. And they're warning young…
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…