(CNN)Experts, medical professionals even Nobel Prize winners are urging governors in an open letter to mandate that anyone in public or at work wear masks and face coverings to prevent spreading Covid-19. A recently published, peer-reviewed study is recomme…
A medical worker walks near the coronavirus intake section of a Brooklyn hospital. ER residents tell Yahoo Life that being called heroes is starting to ring hollow. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Each night in cities across the globe, health care workers are praised through sound — people on roofs or leaning out windows, yelling or clapping out…
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…