African Americans are dying from covid-19 in disproportionately high numbers. After a slow start in gathering data on the race and ethnicity of victims, health officials acknowledged the disparities. So have elected officials.In an interview on ABC News last week, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) called the disparities “very disturbing.”Disturbing indeed.In Maryland, black people make…
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…