White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied Monday that President Trump had ordered a slowdown in coronavirus testing after he quipped over the weekend, "I said to my people, slow the testing down, please."McEnany said the president’s remarks at his Tulsa rally about coronavirus testing was “a comment that he made in jest, a comment that…
Chicago will move to phase four of reopening from the coronavirus this Friday along with the rest of the state, officials announced Monday. That means museums, the Lincoln Park Zoo and youth summer camps, along with indoor dining and other amenities, will be allowed to open “with limited capacities and appropriate safeguards,” according to Mayor…
A Ventura County sheriff’s employee is on leave and an employee of the county district attorney’s office has resigned after they were cited in connection with the vandalism of a Black Lives Matter banner in Thousand Oaks, authorities said.The incidents were captured on a surveillance camera that was installed to record anyone trying to damage…
Attorneys for the former Atlanta police officer charged with killing Rayshard Brooks are disputing statements made about the case by Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
CLOSE Of the confirmed two million coronavirus cases, more than 113,000 Americans have died since the virus emerged here a few months ago. USA TODAYGENEVA — The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.The UN health…
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…