The Maine inn at the center of an outbreak of COVID-19 has had its business license suspended, state officials said Thursday.The Maine CDC said Thursday that the total number of cases linked to the outbreak involving a wedding at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket on Aug. 7 has increased to 87.Officials said the Big…
Tropical storms Marco and Laura have continued on their paths towards the Gulf Coast, according to the 10 p.m. National Hurricane Center update on Saturday.Marco, which entered the Gulf this weekend, will continue to bring tropical storm conditions over parts of Cuba tonight. Forecasters say it could be at or near hurricane strength when it…
As the coronavirus-stricken economy picks up, native-born workers are outstripping immigrants in returning to the workplace, according to a new study being released Wednesday that suggests the country’s appetite for foreign labor is low. The Center for Immigration Studies crunched Labor Department data and found that native-born Americans across the education spectrum made gains, with…
Officials with John Knox Village in Lee's Summit, Missouri, said multiple employees who work at the campus Village Care Center have tested positive for COVID-19.A release from John Knox says five new employees at the facility's care center have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the facility's total number of positive cases to nine. Facility officials…
During the first chaotic months of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was already clear that the novel coronavirus spreading around the world didn’t affect everyone equally. The earliest clinical data out of China showed that some people consistently fared worse than others, notably men, the elderly, and smokers. It made some scientists wonder: What if the…
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…