Outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Since the start of the modern LGBT movement in the 1960s, some members of the community have questioned the degree of common interest between lesbian, gay, and bisexual people on the one hand and transgender people on the other. Notwithstanding similar experiences of…
Published on Jun 12, 2020A possible treatment for those suffering from COVID-19 has brought renewed scrutiny to Canada's blood donation ban for men who have sex with men. Clinical trials to study whether convalescent plasma can help fight COVID-19 are underway. But this country's controversial blood donation policy means men and trans women aren't allowed…
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…