For weeks, the PDB — as the report is known — traced the virus’s spread around the globe, made clear that China was suppressing information about the contagion’s transmissibility and lethal toll, and raised the prospect of dire political and economic consequences.But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president, who routinely…
In late February, when President Donald Trump was urging Americans not to panic over the novel coronavirus, alarm bells were sounding at a little-known intelligence unit situated on a U.S. Army base near WashingtonBy DEB RIECHMANN Associated PressApril 16, 2020, 6:52 PM6 min readWASHINGTON -- In late February when President Donald Trump was urging Americans…
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…