The United States National Weather Service’s automated station at Furnace Creek in California hit the extreme high at 3:41pm on Sunday If the Death Valley temperature is verified, it would beat the previous hottest August day for the United States. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters A temperature of 54.4C – or 129.9F – has been recorded in…
"We are proof that they cannot keep these children safe,” said Terina Neal, the mother of one of the teens who is sick. HOOD RIVER, Oregon — There's a COVID-19 outbreak in Hood River County, and according to the health department, it involves at least five student-athletes and their families. The mother of one of…
TUCSON, Ariz. — Quality of Life Medical and Research Center in Tucson will be one of 87 clinics nationwide conducting Phase 3 trials of Moderna's mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine. The study will look at 30,000 adult participants at high risk of contracting the coronavirus. The trial is now expected to begin July 27. The mRNA-1273 vaccine…
Nineteen more Hidalgo County residents died due to COVID-19 and an additional 393 cases of the disease were confirmed, county officials reported Friday. Among those who died were residents of Mission, San Juan, McAllen, Edinburg, Pharr and Alamo. Several were in their 70s, two were in their 30s and one in their 40s. “Each day…
EDINBURG — Hidalgo County reported 248 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, another single-day high being set, and two additional deaths from complications related to the virus. Cameron County reported 111 new cases Tuesday and the coronavirus-related death of a 21-year-old woman from Indian Lake, the Rio Grande Valley’s youngest coronavirus fatality so far. The…
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…