A new Centers for Disease Control report shows 94% of people who died after contracting COVID-19 had contributing health conditions.Our thought bubble, via Axios' Sam Baker: This report doesn't mean that COVID isn't as bad as we thought. It's clear from the CDC's statistics on excess deaths that more people are dying than usual, because…
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A St. Louis police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a shooting on the city’s south side died Sunday, authorities said.Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon, 29, had been with the department for 3 1/2 years.Woodling said the second officer is 30 and has been on the force about six…
Lumes Pancake House in Morgan Park is known to be bustling with people of all ages on Sunday mornings — from churchgoers to families and friends. But about an hour before it was scheduled to close this Sunday, the popular breakfast spot was sprayed by bullets, leaving one person dead and four people wounded. At…
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- After a long six months, many chain-North Carolina gyms say they plan to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic as soon as Tuesday, citing a medical loophole that other gyms in the state have used since the start of the pandemic to remain open despite Governor Roy Cooper's executive order keeping them closed.Customers…
MSNBC host Joy Reid took to Twitter on Sunday to accuse President Trump of planning a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin – the current epicenter of U.S. riots - to whip "white supremacists' into a violent frenzy.The Trump-hating leftist TV talker said the riots that have engulfed big U.S. cities and last week descended on Kenosha after Jacob Blake…
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…