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Students in the Cobb County School District will go back to class two weeks later than planned. Cobb school board members Thursday pushed back the start date for the 2020-21 year to Aug. 17 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The original start date was Aug. 3. Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said the delay will give the…

A white couple was arrested after at least one handgun was pulled on a Black woman and her daughters during a videotaped confrontation in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan, authorities said Thursday.Jillian Wuestenberg, 32, and Eric Wuestenberg, 42, were charged with felonious assault over the Wednesday incident, Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper said.The confrontation was…

On Thursday at the top of his coronavirus press conference California Governor Gavin Newsom said “masks keep people healthy.” He then went on to detail the announcements, PSAs and other campaigns the state has undertaken to try and get residents to wear their masks. The governor revealed on Thursday that the state had seen 4,056…

The country’s top infectious disease expert said Thursday that a more infectious strain of the coronavirus may be emerging.Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the claim Thursday in an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association.The main difference between the two, Fauci said, is that Italy’s…

In an attempt to curb the rising number of coronavirus cases in southern Florida, Miami-Dade County will impose a curfew beginning at 10 p.m. Friday.The announcement about the curfew by Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez came the same day that health officials reported more than 10,000 new cases statewide, a record high."This curfew is…