A lawsuit against many of Maryland’s top officials is targeting laws crafted in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The suit, filed on Saturday, names Gov. Larry Hogan, Health Secretary Robert Neall, Deputy Secretary of Public Health Services Frances B. Phillips and Maryland State Police Superintendent Woodrow W. Jones, III, as its defendants. Filed by…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. An internal document featuring charts produced by FEMA projects far more new coronavirus cases than the White House has forecast and nearly double the current daily death toll by the end of the month — but sources have raised questions about the…
President Trump offered a new explanation for China’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting Beijing may have deliberately allowed infected travelers to leave the country. Speaking during a video town hall Sunday, the president said China let the virus loose either through “incompetence” or another reason. “They chose not to do it or something happened,”…
Even though North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un popped up at a fertilizer plant on Friday, speculation has been rampant about his health and the stability of the notoriously unstable nuclear-armed country.Intelligence officials from Texas to Taiwan weighed in on the health of Pyongyang's basketball-loving leader, with some speculating he was in a vegetative state after…
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…