D.C.’s heat index never fell below 90 degrees on Sunday night The National Weather Service’s forecast for high temperatures across the Lower 48 on Monday. (Pivotal Weather) Andrew FreedmanEditor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. July 20 at 10:16 AM The East Coast is bracing for excessive heat to kick off…
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…