The state recorded 15,300 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, easily passing the previous one-day high of 12,274 set at the height of the outbreak in New York in April.A pier in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Sunday. The surge in Florida reflects how the spread of the virus has escalated in much of the country, particularly…
Joel Shannon, USA TODAY Published 7:15 p.m. ET July 11, 2020 | Updated 7:31 p.m. ET July 11, 2020CLOSE Dr. Jane Appleby, the chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, says the hospital treated a patient who attended a 'COVID party.' USA TODAY HandoutA Texas doctor says a 30-year-old patient died after attending…
Congress is under growing pressure to provide billions of dollars to help schools reopen as part of the next coronavirus aid package while debate rages nationwide over whether it’s safe to send students and teachers back to classrooms. Democrats and Republicans are increasingly in agreement that education funding will be a key part of the negotiations…
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…