Governments and restaurant owners wanted to get back to business. But bars and restaurants have become a focal point for clusters of Covid infections.A recent evening on Broadway in downtown Nashville, where masks are required by law and signs encourage social distancing.Credit...William DeShazer for The New York TimesAug. 12, 2020, 3:00 a.m. ETAcross the United…
It took the killing of George Floyd to get Jane Ullman to finally pay attention to what the police were up to in America. But it was the sinister sight of federal agents in camouflage snatching demonstrators off the streets of Portland that got her out to protest. The chief financial officer for tech startups…
The National Institutes of Health is looking for help from thousands of Americans to participate in a new clinical trial testing a variety of vaccines and antibodies intended to protect people from COVID-19. Since the coronavirus pandemic emerged, most hopes for a return to normalcy have been pinned to the development of a vaccine that…
The patients in Colorado are wanted for a study trial of the Moderna vaccine. DENVER — Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus are looking to recruit 1,000 patients in the state for a study testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The recruitment period for the…
New York City police are searching for a man in connection to the assault on a 73-year-old woman who was punched in the face while standing on a subway platform last week.The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. on June 17 at the 174-175th Street station in the Bronx, police said.MAN ACCUSED OF ATTACKING NYC WOMAN, 92,…
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…