Everyone says more testing is the key to understanding—and ending—the coronavirus pandemic. And it is—but it needs to be done right. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images. It is fair to say that every one of us would like to see progress against COVID-19 and toward a return…
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…