May 30, 2020 | 4:37pm President Trump had to stop himself from committing the worst etiquette sin of the coronavirus age: going in for a handshake. The president gestured theatrically when his official military greeter approached him with an outstretched palm Saturday as Trump stepped off Marine One onto the tarmac of Andrews Air Force…
By Laurel Mallory | May 30, 2020 at 3:06 PM EDT - Updated May 30 at 3:06 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 266 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and 4 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to…
Extremely vulnerable people in Great Britain who have been "shielding" staying at home at all times and avoiding any face-to-face contact will be allowed outdoors from Monday, the UK government sai…
An American withdrawal from the World Health Organization could wreak profound damage on the global effort to eradicate polio and could undermine the world’s ability to detect and respond to disease threats, health experts warned. The experts, from the United States and beyond, are aghast at President Trump’s announced intention to leave the organization, which…
The latest:There have been more than 1.7 million coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.The U.S. death toll has surpassed 103,000 people, according to Hopkins.President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the World Health Organization after criticizing the group's response to the coronavirus pandemic and…
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…