The World Health Organization praised Beijing on Tuesday for its handling of a cluster of cases of bubonic plague, one of the deadliest diseases in human history.The apparent outbreak of the disease is being "well managed" by China and is not considered high risk, a WHO official said.Local authorities in Bayan Nur, located in the…
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Published 12:04 pm PDT, Monday, July 6, 2020 UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. on March 20, 2020. The Bay Area is under a shelter-in-place order due to the the COVID-19 coronavirus. UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. on March 20, 2020. The Bay…
A Tyson Foods Inc. facility stands in Lexington, Nebraska, U.S., on Friday, April 24, 2020. Nebraska businesses that have laid off workers during the coronavirus crisis could be forced to repay tax credits and other incentives they have received through the states main business-incentive program, the state Department of Revenue said.Dan Brouillette | Bloomberg |…
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…