A top mental health official warns there could be an increase in the number of suicides, fatal drug overdoses and instances of domestic abuse, in addition to more general mental health stressors, if the U.S. goes through a second COVID-19 lockdown (Design: Nathalie Cruz for Yahoo Life)Americans are finally starting to get outside again, and…
(CNN)William "Roddie" Bryan Jr., the man who recorded the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in a neighborhood outside Brunswick, Georgia, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday. Bryan witnessed the deadly en…
Los Angeles County health officials announced 46 new coronavirus-linked fatalities Thursday, pushing the region’s death toll past 2,000.“This is a very sad milestone for us,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a daily briefing. Along with the updated death count — which now stands at 2,016, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker —…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Tanya Chan (C) said this was "the saddest day in Hong Kong history" Pro-democracy activists say they fear "the end of Hong Kong", after China announced plans for a new security law.The US said the move could be "highly destabilising" and undermine China's obligations on Hong Kong's autonomy.China's National People's…
Gunman killed and sailor wounded in early-morning attack Suspect shot dead by security during exchange of gunfire The entrance to the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Investigators were working to determine whether a second person of interest was at large in the community. Photograph: Annie Rice/AP A shooting at a Texas military base that wounded…
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…