People wearing face masks, amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, commute on a train in Hong Kong on April 4, 2020.Dale De La Rey | AFP | Getty ImagesDemand for virtual private networks in Hong Kong surged more than six-fold last Thursday as Beijing proposed tough new national security laws for the financial hub, reflecting…
A video of a white woman calling the cops on a black man because he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park Monday is drawing outrage on social media. The footage, posted on Twitter by the man’s sister, begins with the masked dog walker marching toward the man and demanding that he stop…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.China’s “bat woman” researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is “just the tip of the iceberg” in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.“If we want to prevent human beings from…
California will allow houses of worship to open for in-person services at reduced capacity and let retailers open for in-store shopping, state officials announced Monday.Under guidelines announced by Gov. Gavin NewsomGavin Christopher NewsomGOP sues California over Newsom's vote-by-mail order Trump sides with religious leaders in fight against governors Watch live: California Gov. Newsom gives coronavirus…
Editors, USA TODAY Published 4:04 p.m. ET May 25, 2020 | Updated 4:46 p.m. ET May 25, 2020CLOSEThe most talked about accessory this Memorial Day? The face mask. More specifically: Which leaders – and partygoers – are wearing them and which are not?The Memorial Day holiday comes as the United States braces to pass the 100,000 mark in…
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…