An increasingly familiar cry for help punctuated the newly released body-camera footage of the death of a black man in Oklahoma City police custody last year: “I can’t breathe." Derrick Scott, 42 years old according to the Associated Press, died shortly after being restrained by police in the grass in southeast Oklahoma City for roughly…
Commentary Add my name to the list of physicians who cannot stay silent any longer. The lockdowns must end. They must end immediately and in earnest, not a slow sinking into a morass of rules so complex, illogical, and destructive of privacy as to make lockdown look enjoyable. In March, the argument for lockdowns was…
Hydroxychloroquine does not help COVID-19 patients, and indeed may increase deaths, according to a large, international study published Friday in The Lancet.The research is the latest to show the drug — which President Donald Trump this week said he was taking as a preventive strategy — can lead to potentially deadly heart problems.Full coverage of…
More than 4 million U.S. workers filed for jobless benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That brings the total number of people applying for aid to more than 43 million, on a seasonally adjusted basis, since the coronavirus pandemic spread across the nation. Put another way, 1 in 4 U.S. workers has applied for jobless aid in…
Lawmakers have passed trillions of dollars in rescue legislation while the Fed has crossed into ... [+] uncharted territory. Getty With job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic reaching more than 36 million in just two months, the economy is in uncharted territory. Businesses across the country are shuttered and entire industries are in hot…
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…