During the Rose Garden ceremony, Trump praised the deal and said he would speak to Trudeau later in the day. “We’ll have a separate day with Canada coming down at the appropriate time,” he said. Yet even as he basked in the victory of his trade deal, the president struggled to escape the worsening domestic…
Even with more than 500,000 dead worldwide, scientists are struggling to learn how often the virus kills. Here’s why.Gravediggers at the Vila Formosa Cemetery buried victims of Covid-19 in São Paulo last month. Despite the scale of the pandemic, researchers still are uncertain how lethal the coronavirus is. Credit...Victor Moriyama for The New York TimesJuly 4,…
The coronavirus killed tens of thousands in the United States during the pandemic’s first months, but it also left a lesser-known toll: thousands more deaths than would have been expected from heart disease and a handful of other medical conditions, according to an analysis of federal data by The Washington Post.The analysis suggests that 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…