By Luke McGee and Henrik Pettersson, CNN Updated 11:05 AM ET, Tue July 7, 2020 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. (CNN)International students…
But last year, it became clear that, even in a small nation like Samoa, eradicating a preventable disease like measles was not simple at all. In less than four months, thousands of infants grew sick from measles and more than 80 people died, many of them very young.The nation’s health infrastructure was overwhelmed. “It happened…
How, exactly, does the coronavirus hijack and reprogram human cells to sicken and kill? This question has obsessed Nevan Krogan since February, when the UCSF virus expert and his colleagues realized, before many did, that things in America would get very bad very fast. Since then, the question has only grown more urgent, and for…
Joe Biden’s path to the White House could be through fed-up suburbanites and young Latinos.A Black Lives Matter unity march was born out of a reimagined Pride parade in central Phoenix on June 13.Credit...Caitlin O'Hara for The New York TimesJune 23, 2020, 3:00 a.m. ETPHOENIX — At the start of 2020, optimistic Democrats already thought…
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…