Summary A health directive to wear face coverings in public goes into effect today. Wear a face covering at any indoor or outdoor public space where you may be within 6 feet of someone who does not live with you. Story The directive to wear face coverings while in public goes into effect today, May…
President says he’s been taking drug for ‘a couple of weeks’ but FDA has issued repeated warning about the dangers of the drug Donald Trump reveals that he is taking Hydroxychloroquine, a drug approved to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Photograph: Doug Mills/EPA Donald Trump has told reporters at the White House that for…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A judge in Oregon on Monday ruled that Gov. Kate Brown’s coronavirus restrictions were “null and void” after the Democratic lawmaker failed to have her emergency orders approved by the state’s legislature in 28 days.Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew Shirtcliff made the…
(CNN)Massachusetts and Connecticut are set to partially reopen this week after prolonged coronavirus shutdowns, the final states to begin to do so. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker detailed a plan that begins Monday with the reopening of manufacturing facili…
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…