Syracuse, N.Y. — Should school children return to classrooms this fall, even amid a pandemic that might roll on for a year or more?Yes, pediatricians and educators say. Recent research indicates that children don’t appear to be at high risk of spreading the novel coronavirus, they say, and there could be more harm to kids…
The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating, and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization's (WHO) director-general said. The WHO reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases as the total rose by 183,020 in a 24-hour period. The biggest increase was from the Americas, with more than 116,000 new cases.…
President Donald Trump has doubled down in his attacks against mail-in voting for this year's presidential election claiming it will lead to the 'greatest rigged election in history' and its supporters are using the coronavirus to create a voting scam.Trump is ramping up his campaign against the integrity of mail-in ballots as states including Michigan…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The biggest threat to the United States today is not a virus, but rather “virus-shaming.” The greatest challenge the American experiment faces in this dark hour is not our need for safety but our loss of liberty. And the complicity of the church in the wholesale abandonment of this self-evident truth is no less…
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…