The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention briefly posted new guidance to its website stating that the coronavirus can commonly be transmitted through aerosol particles, which can be produced by activities like singing. Here, choristers wear face masks during a music festival in southwestern France in July. Bob Edme/AP hide caption toggle caption Bob Edme/AP…
The University of Notre Dame announced Monday that it is withdrawing as the host site for the first of the 2020 presidential debates, scheduled for September 29. "[T]he constraints the coronavirus pandemic put on the event — as understandable and necessary as they are — have led us to withdraw," university president Reverend John I. Jenkins said in a…
The nonpartisan commission that holds the quadrennial presidential debates says that the first of the three scheduled showdowns this fall between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is being moved from Indiana to Ohio after Notre Dame withdrew as a host.The Commission on Presidential Debates (CDP) announced on Monday that the Sept. 29 debate will now be…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar withdraws from consideration from the Biden ticket. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar withdrew her name Thursday as a potential running mate for Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket. A former candidate for the Democratic nomination herself, Klobuchar was, by all reports, under serious consideration to join the Biden ticket and…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force earlier this week. Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force earlier this week. Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images…
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…