A view of the Motiva refinery looking over the rooftops of home in Port Arthur, Texas, in April.Credit...Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York TimesJuly 15, 2020Updated 11:04 a.m. ETWASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday is set to unilaterally weaken one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws, the National Environmental Policy Act, limiting public review of…
Here's what you should and shouldn't worry about when it comes to how isolation is affecting your body. Shutterstock In the era of the coronavirus pandemic, you may feel panicked by even the smallest choices you're making every day. Fear is the name of this game, and it's easy to get wrapped up in imagining…
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…