As President Trump endorses a fringe conspiracy theory suggesting that the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, zoologist and disease ecologist Peter Daszak says the leap that the coronavirus made from bat to human is "not unusual." The coronavirus that led to SARS emerged from bats. So, too, did Ebola and rabies. He says…
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…