The Interior Department finalized Monday a leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, moving to unlock a potential oil-and-gas gusher in the Alaska wilderness and underscoring the Trump administration’s energy-independence push. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said that the first lease could be approved before the end of the year after signing a Record of…
The country’s regulators became the first in the world to approve a possible vaccine against the virus, despite warnings from the global authorities against cutting corners.In this video screen grab made available by Moscow’s Sechenov Medical University, a volunteer is receiving the vaccine as part of clinical trials.Credit...Sechenov Medical University Press Office, via Getty ImagesAug.…
Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY Published 8:12 a.m. ET July 8, 2020 | Updated 9:42 a.m. ET July 8, 2020CLOSE Not sure when Clorox wipes will be back in stock? Here's how to make your own with bleach or alcohol. USA TODAYLysol is the first surface disinfectant approved by the Environmental Protection Agency to wipe out the…
FILE PHOTO: A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) staff uses a Lysol to clean a station at the lobby of Grand Central Station following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York City, U.S., March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon(Reuters) - UK-based Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc (RB.L) said on Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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…