Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt will return to sea later this week before Memorial Day after a coronavirus outbreak sidelined the massive warship for nearly two months after more than 1,000 sailors tested positive, Navy officials said Tuesday. Since…
At least 840 sailors assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt had tested positive for the coronavirus, and the number could climb as a “small number” of results are still pending, the Navy announced Thursday. The Navy had tested the entire 5,000-member crew of the Nimitz class, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which made headlines when its former…
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…