July 2, 2020 | 10:21am | Updated July 2, 2020 | 9:01pm Enlarge Image Mayor Bill de Blasio outside Brooklyn Borough Hall helping to paint a "Black Lives Matter" mural Paul Martinka Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday postponed the painting of “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, a day…
President Trump announced on Twitter late Friday that his planned rally in Tulsa, Okla., will be held one night later than originally scheduled.The president was scheduled to speak in Tulsa next Friday, June 19, but now he will hold the rally Saturday, June 20, instead.The reason: June 19 is the date of “Juneteenth,” a holiday…
Even small differences in timing would have prevented the worst exponential growth, which by April had subsumed New York City, New Orleans and other major cities, researchers found.May 20, 2020Updated 11:14 p.m. ET Total reported deaths in the United States on May 3 Estimated deaths on May 3 if social distancing started one week earlier…
The U.S. Navy's top civilian leader said he is calling for a deeper investigation into the circumstances around the firing of Capt. Brett Crozier, who was relieved of his command of the USS Roosevelt after the leak of a letter he sent detailing concerns about a coronavirus outbreak on the ship.Top officials with the Navy…
Share on PinterestA new study confirms that it’s not just what you eat but when you eat that counts.With almost half of adults in the United States trying to lose weight, many have turned to daily intermittent fasting as a simple way to shift the pounds. This diet involves fasting for a fixed period of…
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…