WASHINGTON - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a debilitating lung condition, often develops as a result of decades of heavy smoking -- but that does not explain why almost a third of all cases occur among people who have never smoked. The authors of a new study say they now have an answer, and it's linked…

HOUSTON, TEXAS (BLOOMBERG) - Texas on Wednesday (June 10) reported 2,504 new coronavirus cases, the highest one-day total since the pandemic emerged. A month into its reopening, Florida this week reported 8,553 new cases - the most of any seven-day period. California's hospitalisations are at their highest since May 13 and have risen in nine…

U.S.|‘Take Back Your City’ From Protesters, Trump Tells Seattle MayorThe president tweeted that Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee were being taunted by protesters. Some demonstrators have used barricades to occupy several city blocks.Demonstrators pushed barricades in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle on Wednesday.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesJune 11, 2020Updated 1:15 a.m. ETSEATTLE…

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About 80 miles away, protesters in Portsmouth beheaded and then pulled down four statues that were part of a Confederate monument on Wednesday, according to media outlets. Efforts to tear one of the statues down began around 8:20 p.m., but the rope they were using snapped, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The crowd was frustrated by the…