Four of the five deaths from COVID-19 reported by Dallas County health officials on Friday were people who lived in nursing homes. Two women in their 90s, a woman in her 80s and a man in his 80s all lived in Dallas long-term care facilities and died from the coronavirus, along with a Garland man…
Veteran advocates say they are frustrated at the lack of transparency around the Department of Veterans Affairs' use of the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.After the release of a preliminary study of veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 this week that showed that hydroxychloroquine — a anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump —…
April 26, 2020Updated 4:17 a.m. ETSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is still sending letters and gifts to foreign leaders and domestic workers in the name of its leader, Kim Jong-un. Its news media brims, as usual, with panegyric propaganda extolling Mr. Kim’s leadership. South Korea reiterates that it has detected “nothing unusual” in the…
President Trump on Saturday shared a government warning about disinfectants that was issued after he earlier suggested doctors might explore whether they could be used to treat patients sick with the novel coronavirus. Mr. Trump’s account on Twitter shared guidance circulated a day earlier by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the…
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…