Armed anti-government protesters descended on the state capitol in Kansas while supporters of President Trump did the 'MAGA dance' near a large float outside the governor's mansion in Lansing, Michigan, on Thursday as protests continued against state-mandated closures of businesses during the pandemic.Hundreds of people protested Thursday against Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s stay-at-home order for…
An initiative has attracted more than 1,700 volunteers who say they would be willing to intentionally be infected with the coronavirus as part of a controversial testing method that advocates say could speed the development of a vaccine. The group, 1Day Sooner, says 1,754 people have signed up as volunteers for a so-called human challenge…
Hundreds of protesters gathered at state capitals in North Carolina and Missouri to protest stay-at-home orders Tuesday, the latest in a wave of demonstrations against statewide restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus.The small protests featured demonstrators — many of them wearing gear promoting President Donald Trump and waving "Don't Tread on Me" and…
Six hundred severely ill Covid-19 patients have received blood plasma from recovered patients in a study researchers hope sheds light on whether the experimental therapy improves health outcomes and yields other useful data outside the scientific rigor of a traditional clinical trial. The patients are participating in a national expanded-access program authorized in early April…
At one Cherry Hill nursing home, a quarter of the residents have contracted the coronavirus and 11 people have died. Nine miles away in Burlington County, another facility is battling the virus that has infected at least 54 people. Eight have died. And one company that operates long-term-care facilities across the country has reported 263…
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…