Her baby was coming, and her complications were growing more dangerous. But nowhere would take her — an increasingly common story as India’s health care system buckles under pressure.Patients waiting to get examined for fever and other symptoms at a government-run homeopathic hospital in New Delhi in March.Credit...Manish Swarup/Associated PressJune 21, 2020Updated 6:22 p.m. ETNEW…
Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,784 new cases of the coronavirus and 11 related deaths.The county now has recorded more than 83,000 cases of the virus and over 3,120 deaths.The continued rise in new cases came amid the first weekend of more businesses sectors reopening, as bars, card rooms and some…
Orange County on Sunday reported its highest one-day total of new coronavirus cases for the second day in a row.Public health officials recorded 434 new cases Sunday, which was preceded by 413 cases Saturday. Previously, the county reported a high of 297 new cases on June 14.With the increases, the total number of cases reported…
During the final Democratic primary debate in March, Joe Biden pledged that if he were to win the party's presidential nomination, he would choose a woman as his vice-presidential candidate.A lot has happened since then, not the least of which is Biden securing the required Democratic Convention delegates to become his party's presumptive nominee. Even…
Nashville Tennessean Published 12:57 p.m. CT June 21, 2020 | Updated 5:12 p.m. CT June 21, 2020CLOSEThe Tennessean is investigating how a paid advertisement from a fringe religious group was published on Sunday in violation of the newspaper’s long-established standards.The ad featured a bizarre, pseudo-religious “prophecy,” including the declaration of an impending nuclear attack in…
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…