Updated June 23, 2020 Biden vs. Trump Joe Biden has taken a commanding lead over President Trump in the 2020 race, according to a new national poll by The Times and Siena College. Tuesday’s Elections Fears about the coronavirus reduced the number of polling places and led to a surge in absentee balloting that delayed…
Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Published 9:38 p.m. ET June 15, 2020 CLOSE A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in the stabbing death of a Barnard College freshman student in New York. WochitA 14-year-old boy was sentenced Monday to the maximum of 18 months in juvenile detention for the 2019 robbery and murder of Barnard…
Much remains unknown and mysterious, but these are some of the things we’re pretty sure of after half a year of this pandemic.VideoJens Mortensen for The New York TimesCreditWe don’t really know when the novel coronavirus first began infecting people. But as we turn a page on our calendars into June, it is fair to…
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…