President Trump prayed for the nation to begin healing Thursday as the coronavirus penetrated the president’s inner circle at the White House and the total number of Americans who have lost their jobs in the pandemic rose to more than 33 million. At a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden,…
Published: May 5, 2020 at 8:38 a.m. ET The U.K. Office for National Statistics said Tuesday the death toll from COVID-19 has climbed above 32,000, placing it above Italy's and making the U.K. the worst hit in Europe from the deadly illness, the Guardian reported. The ONS said it registered 29,648 deaths in England and…
New technology will help forecasters constantly update, fine tune and focus warnings Meteorologists simulate issuing warnings with experimental software at the National Weather Service's Hazardous Weather Testbed. (NOAA) We’ve all heard them — the blaring alerts that activate our cellphones or television when a severe weather warning is issued. Perhaps our favorite weather app sent…
The latest: There have been more than 939,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. The U.S. death toll has surpassed 53,000 people, according to Hopkins. Globally, there have been more than 2.8 million cases with more than 202,000 deaths. Georgia state officials are moving ahead with plans 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…