Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fended off a challenge by former CNBC contributor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to win the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th District, the Associated Press projected Tuesday.Ocasio-Cortez, who made history in 2018 when she was elected as the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress in U.S., had been expected to win the…
Coronavirus nearly killed Michael Flor.After he got out of the hospital following a 62-day stay, the bill he received nearly killed him too.“I opened it and said, ‘Holy (expletive)!,” the Washington state resident recalled, according to the Seattle Times.The 181-page bill came with a total charge of $1.1 million, the report said.WSJ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS HOW…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A 100-year-old World War II veteran from Virginia who lost his wife to coronavirus was finally discharged from the hospital after a 58-day battle of his own with COVID-19. Lloyd Falk, who was hospitalized at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond,…
Louisiana hasn't come as close to running out of hospital beds or ventilators as models predicted, an outcome officials attributed to a combination of the success of a stay-at-home order that has tamped down infections and the worst-case assumptions that were baked into the state's numbers. In the hard-hit New Orleans region, for instance, state models…
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…