Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden suggested Thursday that women who believe his accuser, Tara Reade, shouldn’t vote for him in November’s presidential election. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has denied any wrongdoing after Ms. Reade, a former staffer, came forward, publicly accusing the former vice president of sexual assault in 1993 when he was…
The novel coronavirus seems to be killing more men than women. The trend was first noticed in China, experts say, and the higher COVID-19 death rate for men has since been documented in 33 countries, including Germany, Spain and South Korea. But experts don’t know what’s causing the gap. Is it biological, some quirk of…
according to Florida Department of Health data released Friday evening. Both deaths are connected to long-term care facilities in Clay County, an area that now has a total of nine deaths and 124 COVID-19 cases in its facilities.A Clay County long-term care facility on Friday disclosed an outbreak of novel coronavirus impacting over 30 residents…
Nearly one in 25 American adults has serious mental illness, which means odds are someone in your life is coping with anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar disorder or another debilitating condition. Still, shame about mental illness — likely a holdover from when people wrongly believed such conditions were character flaws or a mother’s fault — can make it hard to…
A new study found that women clear coronavirus from their systems much faster than men. The researchers hypothesize that high concentrations of ACE2-expressing cells in the testes may store more coronavirus. There are many confounding factors to this mystery—some genetic, others social and behavioral. There's much we don't know about novel coronavirus. We don't know…
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…