1918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A Disquieting Pandemic Novel Readers are awaiting novels of the pandemic, and Emma Donoghue just may have stumbled into writing one of the first. As Donoghue explains in the author's note to her new novel, The Pull of the Stars, she began writing the story in…
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…