(CNN)The US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the Trump administration's expansion of controversial short-term health plans, many of which are being sold as a le…
Florida detectives said Saturday they were investigating the deaths of three close friends who drove to a lake at night to go catfishing and were beaten and shot.It happened Friday night around 10 p.m. on Lake Streety in Frostproof.“This is a horrific scene,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters from the scene Saturday morning. “I’ve been to…
As violence and unrest surge in major cities across the U.S., liberal mayors are taking a combative stance toward the Trump administration and offers of federal help -- engaging in sometimes-feisty social media feuds with officials.And the vitriol is flowing in both directions.CHICAGO'S LIGHTFOOT CALLS WHITE HOUSE'S MCENANY A 'KAREN' AFTER REPORTED 'DERELICT MAYOR' SLIGHT “Hey…
We're making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider joining others in supporting local journalism in Alaska for just $3.23 a week. Alaska reported one new death and 78 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as active virus cases continued…
The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.Students, parents and teachers of Cheondong Elementary School in Daejeon, South Korea, got tested in early July after two students were found to be infected with the virus.Credit...Yonhap, via EPA, via ShutterstockJuly 18, 2020Updated 3:23 p.m. ETIn the heated…
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…