While it took 45 days to climb from 1 million and 2 million coronavirus cases in the United States, it took just only 16 days for infections to jump from 3 million to, as of Thursday, 4 million. How did that happen? “What we have right now are essentially three New Yorks,” said White House…
Dr. Deborah Birx indicated on Friday that the nation was struggling in its fight against the coronavirus, suggesting that some states had become hotspots like New York previously was.NBC's Savannah Guthrie had asked Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, "how much worse" the White House expected the pandemic to get before it improved.“Well, it really…
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…